It would be disgraceful to act like there wasn't anything going on, like the Republican candidates seemed to have been doing until until the President weighed in. Then, instead of making a statement sensibly and with sensitivity about the tragedy itself, Newt fires out a race card which is completely irrelevant to what Obama was saying; he was talking from a parents' viewpoint. But, Newt felt compelled to become a catalyst, to throw a lit match onto a smoldering brush fire.
What he's trying for, besides a flagrant attack on the President, is baffling, but his stupid and incendiary comments show an absolute ignorance of; 1) the increasingly horrible situation of murdered children, 2) the reality of racism and its effects on people, 3) the feelings of Trayvon's parents in particular, 4) racial tensions in this country.
Seriously, Newt Gingrich is calling the first African-American president of this country, the result of a truly amazing moment in our nation's history, a RACIST? (shakes head)
Anyway, on one hand, since President Obama isn't a private citizen, he cannot comment on certain legalities regarding the case, but the other hand as a citizen of this country, he certainly has the right to freely, albeit carefully, express his opinion on social issues up to that point. As a former constitutional attorney, as well as a former COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, who gets it (!), I'm sure he can tell where that point is a lot better than a former disgraced Congressman; kicked-out, chastised, loser/liar Avis (he's #3. Get it? Got it. Now go away, spoiler) of a classic fatcat Republican presidential candidate, who isn't terribly presidential but sure likes to perceive himself in that way.
THERE'S your disgrace, for a hypocritical slob like Newt Gingrich to presume to lecture Obama, a sitting president, on, well, anything. Newt got away with a failed impeachment, stupidly and disgracefully and wastefully, going after Bill Clinton for a bj, and he'd love to get Obama, too; but, at least two mistresses, two wives and untold thousands spent on pretty baubles, Mediterranean cruises, and probably every other example of the 'best of the best' for his latest inamorata later, his mad dream of carrying (figuratively speaking) his lady fair (of the moment) over the threshold of the White House is fading (much like his lo-lo-lo and ch-ch-ch...can't do it).
Gingrich the delusional 'historian' is no longer in that same powerful position, and obviously he badly misses it and wants it back. Hopefully he's just going to have to get used to being entirely irrelevant except as late-night joke fodder rather than the mighty 'elder statesman' he so fancies himself to be, or to have been back in the day.
His bombastic pontificating on every subject he focuses on only proves his ignorance of said subject. If only he was an embarrassment only to himself. Instead, his pompous blather, backed by big money, (another mystery), if listened to by persons of importance overseas (PLEASE don't), could become actively dangerous instead of merely stupid and enlightening as to the 'character' and 'intelligence' of the man. Or at least how stupid he thinks his audience is, which I think is also a measure of the man.