Obama: 'If I Had a Son, He'd Look Like Trayvon'

President Obama weighed in on the Trayvon Martin shooting today in the most personal of ways: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," he said at the White House today, reports Politico. "When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids. I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this. And that everybody pull together."

Obama has come under pressure from black leaders for steering clear of the case, and today marked his first public comments. "All of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves," he said, calling it "absolutely imperative" that the investigation be thorough, notes CBS News. (More Trayvon Martin stories.)