Obama:

"But my main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon. And, you know, I think they are right to expect that all of us, as Americans, are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened."


And now, let's ask "How low will they go?" You know the answer:


Gingrich:

"Is the president suggesting that if it had been a white kid who had been shot, that would be OK because he wouldn't look like him? It's just nonsense. Dividing this country up – it is a tragedy this young man was shot."

Santorum:

"What the president of the United States should do is try to bring people together, not use these types of horrible tragic individual cases to try to drive a wedge in America."

Romney and Paul, the grownups in the Republican room for the moment, did not criticize the President.