TWO DAYS - AT 10:58 P.M. ET:  That's how long it took for President Obama to condemn the murder of an anti-abortion activist in Michigan Friday morning:

OWOSSO, Mich. (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Sunday condemned the killing of an anti-abortion activist in Michigan as activists and others gathered for vigil near the site where he was fatally shot.

Obama called last week's shooting of James Pouillon ''deplorable'' in a two-sentence statement.

''Whichever side of a public debate you're on, violence is never the right answer,'' Obama said in the statement.

COMMENT:  Reminds us of the amount of time it took the president to wander to a microphone during the Iranian uprising and announce that democracy was a good thing.

Mr. Obama was a lot swifter in denouncing, appropriately, of course, the murder of abortionist George Tiller on May 31st.  The White House should have been on top of this Friday afternoon.  The double standard is obvious.

September 13, 2009