I don't think much of your rebuttal, Alan.

Obama didn't have to say anything about the ongoing investigation. He could, simply, have gone on record as denouncing white supremacy in the face of what was clearly a racially-based attack. But he did not. He merely alluded to "dark forces" that were present in US society in the past. Wow. Bold stuff.

You give Obama leeway because at the time he didn't know the motive and nature of Dylann Roof's crime. Yet when Trump keeps his powder dry under the same circumstance, you condemn him. And you do so despite the fact that when he did speak, he explicitly called out white supremacy and all the rest as an evil. Even much later, Obama never came close to such a direct condemnation.

I'm not saying Obama didn't do right. And I'm not saying Trump couldn't have done better. What I'm saying is that the media is not treating the two presidents equally.