Obama: "Tiller's Murder, an act of 'hopelessness' and 'Despair!"

Upon learning Sunday of the shooting death of Mr. George Tiller - a Kansas physician who performed late-term abortions - President Obama immediately issued a statement imploring the American people to display a bit of empathy toward the killer and to try to understand the motive behind his act of brutality.

"Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved family of Mr. Tiller," the statement read, "I must also hope that we as a nation draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy... We must engage in the difficult task of understanding the source of the murderer's madness."

"Such a failure of empathy... most often grows out of a climate of... helplessness and despair... Thus, we will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of embittered, anti-abortion vigilantes..."

Okay, okay, I admit, Obama never said that!

Here's what Obama actually said on Sunday:

"I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence."

Nice, short, and to the point.

However, shortly after the 9/11 attacks - in which thousands of Americans were brutally murdered at the hands of Islamic terrorists - Obama issued a statement almost identical to the bogus statement I had attributed to him earlier:

Here's what Obama said shortly after 9/11:

"Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families, I must also hope that we as a nation draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy... We must engage in the difficult task of understanding the source of such madness.

"Such a failure of empathy [on the part of the terrorists]... most often... grows out of a climate of... helplessness and despair... We will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe..."

Unlike his statement on Sunday, Obama exudes quite a bit of empathy toward the 9/11 killers. And rightfully so, the Tiller murder was an act of sheer brutality. 9/11, on the other hand - as Obama explained so eloquently - was a simple act of "helplessness and despair"......