https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5IcMdwV6Hg

This video is 30-something minutes long.

It is President Barack Obama paying tribute to the five slain Dallas police officers, the men who were gunned down in that spasm of violence at the end of the Black Lives Matter march through downtown Dallas.

If he had asked me what he should say, I would have counseled him to keep the politics out of it. He didn’t ask.

It isn’t the perfect speech, but it is still heartfelt and sincere and I am quite certain the president — as did former President Bush — delivered some measure of comfort to the men’s grieving families and to the heartbroken community they all served.

It was a damn good one nevertheless.

Thank you, Mr. President, for honoring these men’s service.