Obama Arizona Speech: President To Be Nation's Consoler At Memorial Service

"I think folks there are understand­ably happy and proud to have our President and First Lady in attendance at this difficult time. And they are probably tired of the vilificati­on of the immigrant community in AZ."

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I don't know what Obama's handlers were thinking when they put this together.  They apparently left it to political organizers to put together and assumed that those organizers had the maturity, experience and sense to know what a nationally televised memorial service should look like.  What they've put together is not a venue that you put the gravitas of the office of the president into the center of (or have his cabinet attend and speak at, like his Attorney General giving a religious speech) -- That is if you seriously think this is a national tragedy that you're saying it is, of the level of C0Iumb!ne or the 0klah0ma city b0mbing.  


We have national memorial services as models for how we as a nation recognize and mourn tragedies.  It's how we calibrate culturally­.  It's how we show our humanity.  This is bizarre, and no national memorial has ever been like this.  That's because this is a poorly considered pep rally.

The way that you overcome "vilificat­ion" is to show that you're like those who vilify you, who think you're different, not human.  They need to see you behave as they would behave when they've suffered a savage tragedy and lost loved ones.  Nobody who is cheering and shrieking in that audience is feeling what those who were felled by Loughner's bvllets and their families are feeling.

Can you imagine Lincoln's Gettysburg address in a 'pep rally'-ven­ue like this?
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