U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, whose district covers part of Dallas, today was critical of President Obama because he happened to be absent from the United States when the shooting broke out in Dallas.

“If we are weak at home, we are weak around the world and this is an example of a weakness when our president goes overseas and has a terrible tragedy like this … ”

Yes, Sessions said that, as if the president could predict that a madman would open fire on police officers during a peaceful demonstration in downtown Dallas.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/ben-carson-dallas-shooting-obama-225278#ixzz4Ds1z5qkL

Well, you know what?

Barack Obama announced today he is cutting short his long-ago-planned trip to Europe to attend a NATO summit. He’s coming back home. And, by golly, he’s going to Dallas.

My strong hope and expectation is that the president of the United States is going to do what he has had to do too many times already during his time in office. He’s going to embrace the family members of the slain police officers. He will offer words of support and encouragement to Police Chief David Brown, to Mayor Michael Rawlings, and the rest of a community that’s been shattered by this spasm of violence.

Will that stem the partisan critics?

No. However, the president is going to do what his job description compels him to do.

My other hope, too, is that the president doesn’t politicize his visit to Dallas. The city and the nation need healing, not a lecture.