Newt Calls President's Remarks "Disgraceful"

Newt Gingrich took issue with the President’s remarks about the Trayvon Martin case, calling them "disgraceful" and saying “We should all be horrified no matter what the ethnic background…Is the President suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot that would be ok because it didn’t look like him?" He finds it “appalling” that some are turning this into a “racial issue”. What's really appalling, and disgraceful, is Newt's effort to turn the tragic death of an innocent teenager into a political bludgeon to use against the President.  

Newt says the Trayvon Martin case

Would be as bad if he were white.

That’s true, but Newt’s off base

Because there’d only be a slight

Off-chance Trayvon would be attacked

If he were white instead of black.

Perhaps Newt doesn’t have a clue

About what’s racial and what’s not

But it’s more likely that he knew

Exactly what he said and sought

To focus on Obama’s tone

And play a race card of his own.