I had not heard this previously; however Barack Obama once, again, inserted himself, inappropriately and prematurely last year by making the ridiculous comment that if he "..had a son, he'd probably look like Trayvon." Gee, if that wasn't enough to incite anti-Zimmerman protests but also did wonders for race relations in this country.
Never one to shy away from matters in which he does not have the full facts of a case, we should have been clued in during his first year in office when he made the comment about the Police "acting stupidly" which were then followed by accusations of " racial profiling (by police) when they arrested Harvard Professor Gates when he attempted to "break into his own house."
In the words of Rahm Emanuel ( more or less), " never let a crisis go to waste."