Obama Defends Kaepernick Over National Anthem Slap: ‘He Has A Point’

Just last week, I wrote at National Review that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should sit alongside 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick during his protest against the National Anthem: “he’s just speaking a leftist truth that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama won’t speak: To them, the American story isn’t one of restoration of founding principles and allegiance to eternal truths, but an ever-changing moral rubric in which the only constant is the evil of the past.”

Then, last week, Hillary’s vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine essentially defended Kaepernick: “I wouldn’t presume to tell him what to do…I mean, I’d do it differently.” And now, President Obama has rushed to the sacked quarterback’s defense: “He’s following his constitutional right to make a statement,” Obama said. “I think there’s a long history of sports figures doing so.” He then continued: