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 think you are reaching to justify behavior that is bizarre, and that Obama shouldn't be any part of.

I don't know what the he// his 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 -- That is if you seriously think this is a national tragedy that you're saying it is, of the level of Columb!ne or the 0klahoma city b0mbing.

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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