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Opening Arguments

Grief counselor in chief

My reaction to the president's speech in Tucson seems to be about the same as the developing consensus:

1. The president did fine, hitting all the right notes in stressing unity and our common humanity. He brought up the "blaming the climate" stuff only to dismiss it as inaccurate and inapporpriate.

2. The crowd was so strange that it made it tough to judge the event. This was supposed to be a memorial service, not a pep rally.

I especially liked this from the speech because it rings so true:

After all, that's what most of us do when we lose someone in our family

Comments

tim zank
Thu, 01/13/2011 - 12:48pm

Known more commonly as a "Campaign Stop".

Michaelk42
Tue, 01/18/2011 - 12:20pm

Yeah, it wasn't anything compared to George W.'s classic Ground Zero after 9/11 campaign stop. There's a guy who knew how to work it.

/sarcasm

Yeah Leo. What's the president have to do with congress people, anyway? It's not like he ever interacts with them or they affect each other's jobs or anything.

Oh wait, now /sarcasm

Are you this desperate to find something negative to say about Obama?

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