Showing posts with label obama tucson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obama tucson. Show all posts

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Obama Speech Tucson


Obama Speech Tucson,  - Obama was trying to console a grieving community as he spoke at the memorial service for victims of the weekend shooting in Arizona. He paid tribute to those who lost their lives and encouraged Americans to talk to each other in a manner “that heals, not in a way that hurts.”
The president spoke Wednesday night at the University of Arizona McKale Memorial, whose school was held just under 14,000 people, with a crowd of 13,000 in the stadium football school.Obama’s remarks came four days after a gunman-opened fire during a political event outside a supermarket in Tucson. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition after being shot in the head. The shooting left six dead, including a federal judge and 9 years, Christina Green.
Memorial to honor young victims of mass shootings in Arizona
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Did Obama Speech Undercut Federal Case Against Loughner? (No.)


At last night's memorial service for the fallen victims in Saturday's tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, President Barack Obama spoke at length about the lives led by Jared Lee Loughner's victims, and shone a light on the extraordinary men and women who performed acts of valor during and after the event. But did Obama accidentally torpedo part of the federal case against Loughner? According to Josh Gerstein, concern troll, he totally did!
"Obama speech undercuts federal charge for judge's murder," is the basket case that Gerstein gives us in Politico and naturally, his entire case hangs on a detail so picayune that it would embarrass an ordinary writer. Essentially, here's the exact moment where Obama did all of this undercutting:
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Obama Tucson Speech; Powerful Words from a Friend


In political news, the Wednesday Obama Tucson speech was powerful, down to earth and also political, as he touted his vision of presidential leadership with a call to “make sense out of that which seems senseless” by elevating political agenda.

“When a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations – to try to impose some order on the chaos,” the President told the approximate 12,000 people in the arena as well as a crowd nearly as big who watched on TV monitors in overflow the street and outside area.

The Obama Speech was spoken to the city of Tucson, and to the United States of America, and as Time.com put it, not so much as our President tonight, but as a member of our family. The speech was in response to the recent shooting in Tuscon.
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