President Obama has once again shown his politically correct true colors by declining to light the White House in blue to honor the police officers targeted and killed in Dallas and Baton Rouge.

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After five officers were gunned down and killed by Micah Johnson in Dallas earlier in July, Obama praised their sacrifices for their country at their memorial service. When three more officers were killed during a shootout in Baton Rouge on Sunday, Obama again expressed his support for the police force and condemned the targeting of law enforcement officers in a racially charged climate.

“I don’t suspect that that is something that we will do,” Earnest said.

So it’s a shame that Obama’s recent support for the U.S. police force ends with words and doesn’t translate into actions. After requests began pouring in from police departments beseeching Obama to light the White House in blue to honor the slain officers, the president balked. And this is the same president who lit the White House in rainbow colors to celebrate gay marriage.

“I don’t suspect that that is something that we will do,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said on Monday, according to the Washington Examiner.

Earnest then went on to explain that Obama has supported the police force in other ways during the last couple weeks, including the ordering of American flags to be flown at half mast, cutting his overseas trip short to return to Dallas to attend the memorial service, and meeting with police officers and community leaders alike.

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“All of this is an indication of just how strongly the president feels about the need to show our strong support for our men and women in law enforcement,” Earnest said. “The president’s strong support for American law enforcement officers is crystal clear.”

But perhaps the president’s “strong support for American law enforcement officers” isn’t as strong as his support for political correctness.

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During the summer of 2015, Obama seemed to have no qualms about triumphantly lighting the White House in rainbow colors to honor the LGBT community after the U.S. Supreme Court decision from Obergefell v. Hodges legalized gay marriage in all 50 states. The White House has even been lit pink to raise awareness for breast cancer.

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Obama’s preference for the LGBT community over the law enforcement community comes at a time when Congress is considering efforts to try to force the president’s hand in declaring the targeting and killing of police officers as hate crimes. The considerations arose when Louisiana — where the three officers were killed on Sunday — became the first state to pass a “Blue Lives Matter” bill that listed attacks against cops as hate crimes. Thus, law enforcement officers are now listed as a protected class alongside minorities classified by race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.

“Since the Baton Rouge tragedy, we’ve received calls and messages from around the country from individuals asking about the Blue Lives Matter Act, and we’re confident more members of Congress will be co-sponsoring the legislation as soon as they can when Congress reconvenes,” said Kyle Huwa, a spokesman for the bill’s author, Colorado Republican Representative Ken Buck, according to Reuters.

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These moves come as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has been using the Baton Rouge and Dallas shootings to express her support for the Black Lives Matter movement and its continued outrage over the recent deaths of black men at the hands of officers.

“Many African-Americans fear the police,” Clinton told the crowd gathered at the annual NAACP convention in Cincinnati on Monday. “This madness has to stop. We have difficult, painful, and essential work ahead of us to repair the [damage] between the police and the community.”

As Obama and Clinton and many other leftists debate and consider how best they can juggle the concerns of BLM activists, the law enforcement community, and other sensitive issues, it seems abundantly clear that the Left will always lean towards political correctness.