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
