Nine black people shot dead in their church in Charleston, South Carolina, apparently by a young and mentally disturbed white man. A tragedy. A time for sympathy and prayer. A time for empathetic silence.

Enter Barack Obama. Hustling through some trite words of condolence, this man proceeds to demand the elimination of the 2nd Amendment, and to suggest that the murders are more evidence of a pervasive racism in the white community by inferring the killings are linked to a “dark” period of American history.

This savage and utterly self-centered man simply cannot resist ruthlessly exploiting dead people — adults and children —and their grieving families and communities to advance his and the Democratic Party’s increasingly inhuman and authoritarian agenda.

It is hard to know which is more reprehensible, this man’s exploitation of the dead to satisfy the personal goal of negating, and thereby stealing, the right to bear arms that is the birth-right, and so the property, of all Americans, or this man’s relentless and despicable effort to intensify racial hatreds in the country.

Mr. Obama has been and is a curse on the United States and on all Americans. He has intentionally shredded parts of the U.S. Constitution, and especially is obsessed with abrogating the 2nd Amendment, knowing that as long as it exists his and his party’s goal of one-party, arbitrary rule will never come to pass. He also deliberately has done much more than even the late and unlamented George Wallace to divide Americans into mutually hostile racial groupings.

Some years ago, after the Oklahoma City bombing, President Clinton said it is absurd to argue that a U.S. citizen could love his country and despise his government. Barack Obama, since 2008, has not only proven Clinton to be dead wrong, but has behaved and spoken in precisely the manner necessary to create many tens of millions of U.S. citizens who love their country dearly and despise their national government with a white-hot passion.