Mr. Obama was educated at Yale Harvard Law School, but a professor at Grinder Switch A&M could have told him that no matter how tempted he may be, a lawyer never insults the jury. The jury gets the last word.

The problem with this argument is “the jury” (parents) didn’t even give the opportunity to let the argument be posed on which to judge. If the jury gets the “last word”, it follows that there should be a first word. If the first word is ignored, there is no point in a last word. It was the jury behaving as judge and executioner by killing the process before it had begun that is ridiculous here. Not the press secretary at the White House.