But, it was a truely grat & inspiring speech. Hopefully those who have been injured will heal fully including those of us harboring hate.

But, it was a truely grat & inspiring speech. Hopefully those who have been injured will heal fully including those of us harboring hate.

I didn’t watch the speech. Couldn’t. But I followed the reaction on Twitter, and was FLOORED when I saw a picture of a staffer setting out t-shirts prior to the event.

Erick, I’m sure it was a great speech, and maybe that is what needs to be said….but I just can’t get past those t-shirts. It’s beyond any word I can use to describe it. Tacky is the first one I think of, but it’s not enough.

This man, who gave a queen a collection of Obama speeches as a gift, who gave a Prime Minister a stack of movies – had to put a logo on a tragedy that took 6 beautiful people away from us and injured so many more.

He handed out t-shirts.

It’s DISGRACEFUL.

I didn’t watch the speech. Couldn’t. But I followed the reaction on Twitter, and was FLOORED when I saw a picture of a staffer setting out t-shirts prior to the event.

I didn’t see the speech either, and haven’t yet seen the coverage about the speech. But I have to ask you: WHOSE staffer was selling t-shirts? Where was the booth set up in relation to the auditorium? Do you know anything about where the proceeds will go?

Great catch, by the way!

To me, a big pep-rally/service seems to show a lack of respect. I guess I’m in the camp of low-key and dignified events. But handing out t-shirts? Kind of creepy if you ask me.

A speech from the president from the Oval Office may be what was needed. Not a campaign-style rah rah session. Don’t get me wrong – I thought parts of the speech were good. The venue is what I had a problem with.

The Left and particularly the Progressive far Left has nothing to Learn in the sense of gaining command of information to better serve the people. Perhaps they will refine their operating methods while assimilating the Nation; to ‘fundamentally transform’ it into their ultimate desire, a socialist quagmire.

The Left is like the Borg. For the Left, moderation, negotiation, reason and tolerance are irrelevant. We must defeat them every time on every front. We must tackle and subdue every thought and make it obedient to the Truth. For us, this is the Good Fight.

You shall know them by their fruits. One ‘good’ speech from BHO is certainly welcome to a nation longing for ‘good’ leadership and inspiration in these difficult times. Unfortunately for us, it is simply another opportunity by the Left to delude the people into admiring this President enough to give him a second term in office. God have MERCY on us!

Watch what the man does; don’t pay attention to what he says.

Judgment reserved until I see what he does.

We can be hopeful, but hope without action is meaningless.

I thank God he didn’t blame Bush for this. His followers know this was an obligatory gesture and the rhetoric from the NYT, LAT, WaPo and the rest will be just as vile once the euphoria wares off.

   I have no problem with the message, especially when my mind goes back to one other historic divisive period in our nation’s political arena which took shape not so long after its very founding.  Anyone who paid attention during class knows where that one went.

   President Obama needs to put his money where his mouth was last night and do something about the hate-mongers amongst his own party.  Some of them have quite lucrative and high-ranking positions, both within the government agencies and within the mass media itself.  We on the right have been doing our part of keeping the crazies out of the forum.  So let’s keep an eye on what the left is doing to prevent another Jared Loner “incident”.

   If it happens again, call them on it!

nod, nod …

PLEASE report the following page!

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Since we have been told we should be responsible for our words, and since the irrational and irresponsible ‘targeting’ of Sarah Palin for any responsibility for the sickening violence in Arizona has caused such an increase in death threats against her that she may have to increase the costs of her personal security, I thought it would be just and responsible if those fools who perpetuated that politically opportunistic, morally retarded hype would contribute to a fund to help Ms. Palin fund her need for additional security.

I am sorry — sorry that I read all these comments —
You people are delusinal — You people are expert ‘spinners’
I am ashamed that that I can call you Americans.
I doubt that this will make it to your blog.

Berns

I, too, thought the president did a good job delivering the speech — most of it. Especially when he spoke of 9-year-old Christina and was visibly moved. I felt he was actually picturing his own girls.

But I couldn’t get beyond the cheering section…I didn’t even know about the t-shirts. That would’ve put me over the top. The ridiculous applause at the most solemn of comments. The president did well, which is hard for me to admit, but the rest of the audience, most of which appeared to be university students, should be ashamed. Though, I would also say that whomever wrote this speech should be moved to the campaign dept., and out of the memorial department. The language, considering the occasion, teetered on disrespectful at times.

I also noted the many scriptural references. Perculiar, isn’t it? Or perhaps only when faced with death do progressives turn to a higher power for strength.

Note the poll on FNC Special Report online Last night:
“Your reaction to Sarah Palin’s response:”

Perfect in tone and delivery 78.02% (10,274 votes)
Adequate 7.67% (1,010 votes)
Bad timing ahead of memorial 4.36% (574 votes)
…Too political 9.96% (1,311 votes)

The POTUS made a good speech. Maybe it will help bring healing to unite the divide. Maybe (not likely) the leftist of his party who were throwing bombs all week at Palin, Limbaugh, Fox News, Republicans, etc. will quit (not even on this issue will they quit! they have core beliefs which prompt this virulence). Obama will be back on the course he has been on, campaign speeches, bordering on hate speech. His close advisors want him to take the tack of Clinton after OKC and rise above it all and be presidential. They think this is his opportunity (his OKC) to seize the moment and gain the momentum, gain back popularity, and prepare for a second term (God forbid!!!).

event billed as a “memorial service.” That should be the headline. So what if he can deliver a speech fed to him word for word over a teleprompter, doesn’t really mean anything.

When real leadership was needed, he remained totally silent while his party hacks, and his media lapdogs upped their rabid rhetoric for several days. He could have stopped most of it, but he felt that it might be useful in taking down his most formidable foe, Sarah Palin.

His words last night ring very hollow.

The toxic swill being pumped into the atmosphere can be, and should be, laid directly at the feet of 0bama.

There were moments in the speech when the president directed his words to the nine year old little girl that were uplifting.
Personally I cannot get by his agenda to bring the country into European Socialism.

Absolutely.

Pigs will fly.

Satan’s Outriders will win the Stanley Cup.

Every little girl will have a barrel of pixie dust and her own Shetland unicorn.

a Michael Savage or Late Night Paranoid Radio listener, it would have been a different story and it would not have taken days.

Rather, the FCC would already be moving. Who knows, maybe they are.

No matter what his handlers come up with for him to read off his teleprompter, his deep seeded ideology is still evident. He didn’t grow up in America. During early adult years he worshipped Anti-American hatemongers and radicals.This is at his core and will never change.

He calls himself a Christian, yet cannot bring himself to utter the word GOD at a memorial service. Epic fail exposes another epic lie about his core to even the most naive of observers.

“This is, after all, a man who got his political start in the home of a terrorist who’d dedicated a book to Robert F. Kennedy’s killer — a man who never repented but who Mr. Obama then gave grant money to.”

I hold these truths as unquestionable and all-telling.His first major function as POTUS of a nation in crisis, was to turn a memorial service into a defacto-campaign pep rally complete with free T-shirts and bumper stickers. No spin in the world can change the fact that this man is a danger to our Republic and our freedoms.Yes he truly is “Historic”

It is how he sees the world.Class warfare between the “have’s and the have not’s” is how he thrives and seeks to “fundamentally transform America” and to “right” this fundamental flaw in American society.His actions speak louder than yesterdays rhetoric.I’m surprised Eric was taken in my last nights “performance”.Very surprised.

I thought the words were good. It’s nice to finally get a speech from him that isn’t a diatribe against Bush. However, it’s difficult for me to separate President Obama from the good points he makes in the speech. If it was anyone else telling me those things, I might be more inclined to believe it was sincere. That’s probably my failing more than it is President Obama’s.

Irreversible

The damage Obama has done to this nation is irreversible. It can only be repaired by a change in leadership at the helm of our nation.

In full control of the government, Mr. Obama and his party could not help themselves. They used their unimpeded power in ways which fully revealed their diabolical intent. It displayed an ugly vision based on an overreaching, freedom limiting, oppressive government driven by the whims of their philosophy and not limited by our Constitution. When we peacefully fought back, they dismissed the will of the people as some quaint, uninformed and misguided opinion grounded in ignorance. Simply astonishing.

To ensure the success of his agenda, Mr. Obama has rebuked and dismissed us as some type of “fringe” element for exercising our Constitutional rights as Americans. Those on our side who have spoken loudest against his assault on our freedoms and the heavy yoke of government have been targeted. Yes, I’ll use that word, targeted.

For years Democrats have surreptitiously stacked our courts with their adherents. They quietly advanced their cause through backroom deals and legislation which slowly ate away at our Republic like a cancer. We gave them the benefit of our sincere doubt that these actions were part of a shared, constitutionally rooted vision for our country. We trusted Democrats that good intentions were a basis for their actions or as Jefferson said below “the public good” and we simply differed in “essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good”. But now we know it is nothing of the sort.

Mr. Obama and his party have lost the trust of the American people. Anything he says or tries to achieve will be seen as an attempt to once again disguise their real intent. You cannot ignore the people’s will when holding all the levers of our government’s power, then when your iron fist loses its grip suddenly appear conciliatory. Whether correct or not, it appears dishonest, perfidious and insincere.

A new President will bring a new day. And we need that “change” sooner rather than later.

Remember the Paul Wellstone Memorial Service and Pep Rally several years ago?

It is unfortunate that every time there is a high-profile funeral of this calibre, libs always find a way to turn it into free advertising. “Funeral??? Great! Break out the cheap t-shirts! Set up the adoring Young Democrats / SDS mosh pit stage left! Load the prefunctory solemn, politically-correct eulogy speech! Make sure the MSM crowds out actual funeral attendees front-and-center! And what the heck…where’s Fred Phelps????!!!” Everything but the light show and fireworks…and they would have provided those if they could have gotten away with it!

A simple, 10-minute speech is never enough for the Soetoro Gang. Respect for the dead? Please.

He has been the leader of the lies, hatred, and incendiary rhetoric. Now that he has suffered a political loss, he wants to admonish everyone to play nice?

Screw that, and screw him. He’s called me and you and everyone else who opposes him an enemy. I won’t forget that. The word enemy has a specific definition, and I take him literally.

His plea for civility in the face of political defeat reminds of the scene from “Saving Private Ryan”, where the American soldier is faced one-on-one with a German soldier in the upper room of a house. They begin struggling in hand-to-hand combat, but when the German soldier gains the upper hand, and his blade is about to come down on the American, suddenly the American begins pleading with the German – trying to reason with him to stop.

My point is, Obama is a cynical, malevolent, bitter partisan who has led his side of the debate to unprecedented vitriol, lashing out at the American people as evil, stupid, unsophisticated, and worthy of scorn. He took the fight to us. Now that the political tides have turned, he wants to plead with his enemies (his term) not to push that political knife into his chest, just like that soldier in “Saving Private Ryan”.

I say screw ‘im.

Give us a break Erick. T-shirts, cheers and yahooing at a memorial service is what was needed? And don’t say he can’t be blamed for what others do. His supporters paid for and organized the “rally”. Did they act like this a Ted Kennedy’s funeral?

I expected him to end his pathetic “memorial” speech, by telling the assembled, to look under their seats to find the keys to a BRAND NEW GOVERNMENT MOTORS ESCALADE!!!

Will say and do anything to slither into another term.

Nicholae Carpathia, anyone?

To me, none of what the left is doing would be possible if there were a better understanding of conservatism – and if conservatives would articulate their philosophy clearly and fearlessly.

To that end, please take a moment to check out the book Gut Feeling: Why Your First Instinct Is Always Right. It’s about who conservatives are and why they think and believe what they do.

Excerpts can be read at gutfeelingbook [dot] come. This book is one private citizen self-publishing the conservative brand in a way the professionals should (but don’t).

Now, any time a conservative disagrees with Soeterro or a liberal on anything, no matter how civil, a guilt trip attack will be launched, “the right is still amping up trouble even after Tuscon.” And the spineless R’s will comply and back down.

for aggressive rhetoric drawing unwarranted connections between the Right and the shooter. He deserves credit for that.

I think (hope) we all agree that the anger and hatred has grown to a level that threatens to damage our country. It certainly has no place in civil society, nor is it anything we should be proud of.

I don’t think we should respond with derision. Why not use this as an opportunity to raise the level of discourse to a more humane level?

It really can only help us.

If we’re honest, we have to admit there is plenty of room for improvement on both sides. Why not ask that we do better, while we demand they do too?

1) The words of the speech were OK. No objections.
2) Obama does not believe the words of his own speech. He has no authenticity or sincerity.
3) The shiets and slogans and pep rally were reprehensible.
4) His speechwriters had to override the speech after Sarah Palin’s speech earlier in the day (which was a home run and you know Palin believed what she said and was sincere and honest.

Obama’s problem now is that many of the people who voted for him, especially the Independents, know who the real Obama is and that Obama will never live the words he uttered last night.

Sarah Palin has lived and will continue to live her words.

After Sarah’s speech earlier in the day, they had to rewrite Obama’s speech.

I’ll bet the original was more partisan, and they would have easily been perceived as not rising above it like Sarah did.

Remember, this is woman who receives regular and numerous and public death threats against her and her family.

If there are any attacks launched on Palin, and the perps are a molecule to the Left of Mark Kirk, Obama will be finished.

Here is an excerpt of he the President’s speech last night and what I heard from the left. . “Blah blah blah blah and then blah blah blah blah blablah, Blah blah blah blah and then blah blah blah blah blablah, Blah blah blah blah and then blah blah blah blah blablah,”

Yes he did very good at turning a Non-crisis situation into a major crisis. The incident in Arizona had absolutely nothing to do with politics. But as a point to be made the shooter was a Democrat but does not read the news, listen to the news and especially did not listen to talk radio. Essentially, the gunman was nothing more than a punk nut job with a suicide by cop mentality.

There is no blame to be placed here unless it is on a failed mental health system. A system that turns it’s back on those that are a danger to themselves and others. Loughner was that type of character. With the number of arrest and even a stop by police the morning of the incident this man should not have been able to pass an FBI screening nor should he have been walking the streets.

You can always tell of how sacred the left is becoming when they try to start working with the right or they start this let’s all get along together Krap that they will not do when they are in control. Compromise is not in the vocabulary of a Liberal until they are backed into a corner and they can’t move. This was very evident a year ago when Obamacare was being shoved down our throats. Where were the kind words then Mr. President? Where was the transparency then Mr. President? Where was the empathy, kindness and compromise then Mr. President?

People think we live in a very harsh political environment these days. This is nothing compared to the violence incited by the Unions in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. People actually took their opinions to the streets and had fist fights about it. No we live in a kinder gentler time. This cutesy little speech may bring about a few days of disorientation but when the President and the Senate get back to business as usual the American people’s memories will emerge again and we will remember the lack of compromise and civility from the Democrats when they had the power.

I hope and pray that nothing happens to Governor Palin but with the whack-o’s that are out there and the glory seekers anyth9ing can happen.

So here is some more of the Presidents speech. “Blah blah blah blah and then blah blah blah blah blablah, Blah blah blah blah and then blah blah blah blah blablah, Blah blah blah blah and then blah blah blah blah blablah, “

Did he use teleprompters, or did he speak from the heart? I say telepromters.
What I saw was a failed president taking the opportunity to show an empathetic side of himself rather than his recent facial countenance that comes from being continuously nationally ostracized and pathetic.
His attendance wasn’t necessary, the people of Arizona would have done just fine without his control of the podium and hence the memorial.
What he should have done is announce that his federal government was dropping it’s law suit against Arizona and in the process give other mental patients reason to stand down. Sending in troops to help control the Mexican border and to quell impending, riots would go a long way to help Arizonans pass through this horror story of 2010-2011.

I have never heard cheering at a memorial service. Because it is NOT appropriate. The whole tone was wrong. I appreciate that he didn’t say to shoot Sarah, but that’s about all I can say that is commendable. Clearly a political op for BO. You are too nice, Erick. Contrast with FT. Hood. Is a member of Congess really more important than our military? Is it really more serious when one mentally ill man shoots someone than when an Islamic terrorist carries out jihad? The Emperor is naked. Keep pointing i out.

until Obama switched to campaign mode and I switched to the DIY channel. The only reason for Obama, J-Nap, and the AG being in attendance was an attempt to burnish their images, which is desperately needed. We are now supposed to view them all as nice people, rather than rank amateurs that are in way over their heads. Where were the cabinet members after the Ft. Hood jihad attack?

Welcome to the 2012 campaign.

I hope one day people on all sides will see that hate and anger spring from fear. If we loose our fear our anger melts away. Displays of anger and vitriol are really nothing more than admissions of our fear.

It is hard to be brave and it is hard to be kind. I know that from personal experience. I hope we can all at least agree it is important to try.

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The people who are using this tragedy just to push their own political agendas turns my stomach. It seems they want to pin the responsibility on everyone but the person that pulled the trigger.

and set an appropriate tone. But a great speech? Let’s not get too caught up in the rock-star mythos.

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address lasted barely 4 1/2 minutes; he stood up and sat down so quickly that the official photographer didn’t have time to get set up to take his picture.

Reagan’s speech in honor of the Challenger astronauts lasted about 12 minutes.

Clinton’s speech in honor of Oklahoma City lasted about 18 minutes.

Sarah’s video message yesterday lasted 8 minutes.

Obama’s speech lasted 37 minutes. As for the left-wing circle jerk and “tone” in our “political discourse”, Obama didn’t say anything Sarah didn’t. Perhaps it makes a difference that it came from him (though there were shots at Dupnik applauding Obama’s comments in this vein, so probably not). And I may have missed it (I could not force myself to watch for more than a couple of minutes at a time), I don’t think he made any references at all to his own over-the-top, hateful rhetoric in 2008 and 2010. If he had been man enough to do that, I might feel a little more respect for his performance than I do.

The bulk of the speech featured Obama droning on and on, telling us vignettes about all the victims. His style was wooden and lifeless. If you could listen to it without the background noise (squeals, cheers, applause) you would most likely just fall asleep.

Yes, the victims need to be remembered as do the people who took Loughner down. But so too did the soldiers at Fort Hood. So did the students at Virginia Tech. I may have been asleep at the time, but I don’t remember Obama giving a 37-minute speech on the soldiers’ behalf (or saying anything at all, for that matter, beyond warning us all not to rush to judgment regarding the motives of the Muslim shooter), or taking a 20-car motorcade down to VT to console the students there.

Make no mistake: this was about the shooting as a political event. Does anyone think that we would have gotten this show if Loughner had aimed at Giffords and missed?

And about that squealing and cheering. The first time he heard it he actually looked taken aback. At that moment he could have said something to the effect of the gathering being a memorial and asked people to act accordingly. He did not do so. Instead he embraced it and increasingly played to it, all in accordance with Alinsky’s dicta of having no plan and responding to the moment as it unfolds.

I’m happy that Obama said the right things, though as usual with him the event was over the top and came as close as possible to being more about him than the situation in Tucson.

I still fail to find the reason just why every tragic event anymore is a reason for a President to heal and comfort a nation. We have had tragic events equal to this before where past Presidents spoke to the nation but that was a speech delivered from the Oval office. When they attended memorial services they took strides to lessen their role so as to give respect to the memory of the departed. While I believe there were rare moments where the speech was well delivered and the content proper but in contrast to other events it was not the time or the place for President to use for a test for political sound bites. One only had to watch and listen to the cheering and clapping by the students and others in attendence to know they were egged on by unneeded political remarks.

The President can deliver a good speech we know that but with his authority he should have told his staff and those who were to also speak that this was for the victums and not a campaign rally. While his remarks did as Erick wrote “Mr. Obama gave a stunning rebuke to his own base who’ve engaged in a horrific blame game all week” he could have used his voice and his title to rebuke the moronic audience made up students. If the President could go off script to provide false hope by saying Congresswoman Gifford “opened her eyes” he certainly could have settled an unruly crowd and reminded them that this was a memorial for the victums and the families. Second point even to mention that the Congresswoman opened her eyes is to give a false hope that she will heal completely from her wounds. That alone was snapped up by the press as a key moment in the speech giving the impression that she wasn’t healing before Obama made his visit and now a miracle has happened before the eyes of a nation. What in the world was the President doing to mention it in the first place. Doctors will tell you that patients will do things such as the Congresswoman did sometimes in a change for the good and sadly sometimes they do it before expiring. To equate that with a dramatic change for the good is simply not true. He should have been more cautious and released that quietly after the memorial

In contrast the students of Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado showed more class than the students which attended last nights memorial.
These were college students not third graders. Former POTUS Clinton waited until most of the memorials had finished and to his credit he didn’t attempt to make it all about him. Whoever decided to place T-shirts at the event should be fired. That was very tacky if it came from the President’s office staff. That said one has to question the many hypocritical statements President Obama made in his speech. I find it hard to believe the words President Obama said last night given the numerous times he has outright lied, showen disrespect, and used language that one could say far beyond crosshairs on a map. If the President actually means what he said NOW is the time to show it and work with the otherside and really heal the nation. Even if that means signing a bill to repeal a bad law that bears his name.
I’m afraid that just like his words this man is very hollow.

Mr. Obama’s speech last night had no central theme and seemed rather pointless. His basic theme seemed to be: Evil exists in the world so we should be nice to each other.

Mr. Obama raised several themes but never developed them. He borrowed passages from Reagan – “city of God” – and Lincoln – “government of the people;” but he never developed those themes.

He never provided comfort to the family and friends of the victim nor did he put the tragedy in a larger perspective – just think of Reagan’s comments about the space shuttle explosion.

I am still not sure the purpose of the first Scriptural quote he gave.

HE was inspiring.

HE was inspiring.

This speech would have resignated more had it been given on Saturday while the left wing smear maching formally known as the MSM was getting into full swing blame mode.

Instead, they wait 4 days and base the entire photo-op on the most positive feedback, that being most Americans don’t believe political ‘rhetoric’ was too blame for the loon shooting everyone in site.

This man is nothing more than a political opportunist.

The Dems are milking the AZ shooting to the max. I get the erie feeling that Obama might dump Biden from the ticket in 2012 and put in Giffords as the Veep to play up the sympathy vote.

…upon going totTownhall this morning and reading this, from Debra J. Saunders ; “This is a free country. If Sarah Palin wants to run for president in 2012, she is free to try. But she will not win the GOP nomination because Republican voters are not going to choose a middle-aged version of Britney Spears — a figure whose most evident talent is to attract attention to herself — to challenge Barack Obama. “

The Presidents speech was good, a bit lengthy, but good. Was it in pure campaign style? Depends on ones own perception.
The left has stated, prior to 1/8/11, that Obama needed his own Oklahoma City, Timothy McVeigh. Is that the realreason BHO flew to Tucson? After all he never has bothered to go to the border. He still hasn’t even though it is a mere 60 miles from his personal appearance.
Did you know they were selling admission? Why then would other souvenirs be outrageous?
This is just another “seize the opportunity” moment in my opinion.
My other question is, when we begin to hear the world/national news again?

The left has ginned up so much gut level hatred toward Palin that an attempt to physically harm her is bound to happen sooner or later. Part of me wants Palin to stand up to the left, but sadly part of me wants her to back down just for her own safety. It’s a sad state of affairs in America today. And all this when we have a Democrat President and Senate!

I don’t remember him having that a couple years ago.

First, as a centrist, let me say it was nice to see a nice word about the President on this site.

However, I did have to laugh because you attributed the President’s remarks about civility as applying to Democrats–I guess he told “them.”

Then you immediately proceeded to give “uncivil” remarks about Democrats and framed the Democrats as being vicious and promoting the killing of Sarah Palin–now I have definitely heard negative things about Sarah from the left–but that isn’t one of them. On the other hand, I’ve heard Pelosi called a bitch and worse many times by the right–in fact, probably on this site.

There’s a Biblical lesson here–And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Translated: We can see the sins of others–while we are often blind to our own.

“you immediately proceeded to give “uncivil” remarks about Democrats and framed the Democrats as being vicious and promoting the killing of Sarah Palin–now I have definitely heard negative things about Sarah from the left–but that isn’t one of them. “

You might be interested in this video that was pulled from youtube today because of it’s calls for violence and death against Palin and her family.

It may not be the democratic leadership itself calling for Palin’s death, but who do you think set their rabid dogs loose on her?

Warning, vile and disgusting language is portrayed.

Palin Death Wish Tweets Re Tucson Shooting from Legal Insurrection on Vimeo.

being partisan in his speech last night ( I was not able to watch the speech ). For this he should be commended, but not praised. I expect my President to show common sense and compassion in the face of tragedy. There is not much merit in doing what should be simply par for the course.

I am also not ready to claim that he is now going to “move towards the center.” This belief is based on his past behavior. He made many claims prior to winning the Presidency, many of which sounded centrist. But there was always that troubling aspect of what his actions had been in the past. But no matter, right? After all words and a pretty speech are all that was needed.

Once in office he launched the most audacious power grab in the history of the United States. He took over banks, the car industry, and the health care system. He ran up the deficit in an unprecedented manner. Under his leadership, the FFC launched multiple attacks against the 1st Amendment.

With all of his past ACTIONS, I am not willing to now deem him something he is not after a good speech. He was and still is an ultra left-wing President.

being partisan in his speech last night ( I was not able to watch the speech ). For this he should be commended, but not praised. I expect my President to show common sense and compassion in the face of tragedy. There is not much merit in doing what should be simply par for the course.

I am also not ready to claim that he is now going to “move towards the center.” This belief is based on his past behavior. He made many claims prior to winning the Presidency, many of which sounded centrist. But there was always that troubling aspect of what his actions had been in the past. But no matter, right? After all words and a pretty speech are all that was needed.

Once in office he launched the most audacious power grab in the history of the United States. He took over banks, the car industry, and the health care system. He ran up the deficit in an unprecedented manner. Under his leadership, the FFC launched multiple attacks against the 1st Amendment.

With all of his past ACTIONS, I am not willing to now deem him something he is not after a good speech. He was and still is an ultra left-wing President.

The President did fine, as one would expect someone who had three days to work on a speech would.

The organizers and crowd turned the memorial service into an unseemly spectacle. The Student Disciples of Obama thought it was a 2008 campaign rally. 14,000 people? All intimately connected with the families of the dead and wounded, who needed T-shirts and cheering to grieve? All that was missing were the vuvuzelas.

The venue and crowd made me sick.

Interesting commentary. Might I suggest the following equivilence to your last few paragraphs?

Out there, somewhere is someone who would LOVE to kill President Obama. God forbid they do it. (after all, then we would be stuck with Joe Biden or, Heaven help us, Mr. BlubberPants himself, the crybaby Bohner!) But you and I both know there is some crazy FoxNews watcher and RedState.com reader who even now is dreaming of doing so.

And should they try, we can be equally sure of something else. The right will be divided into two camps: (1) The tyrant deserved it, and (2) It’s not my fault.

Phrased this way, can you understand why all right-thinking Americans cringe at your uber-partisan hate-filled rhetoric?

“Out there somewhere is someone who would love to kill Governor Palin. God forbid they do it. But you and I both know there is some crazy MSNBC watcher and Media Matters reader who even now is dreaming of doing so.”

But how can that be? Per Palin, you (Erickson), Beck, O’Reilly, etc. it is impossible for media (be it Fox News OR MSNBC) to inspire anyone to kill. So this is obviously impossible.

BTW, when was the last time Rachel Maddow told anyone to avow themselves of “2nd Amendment solutions” or that conservatism is a cancer that must be eliminated by all means necessary?

of lefties in these comments.

Either that or my septic tank’s backing up.

Given the hypothetical of a Palin assassination, I don’t really think that there’s a problem with a leftist defending himself from the attacks that will inevitably result blaming the broad left for Palin’s death. Movements cannot (and should not) be held responsible for the actions of a bad actor: that sets a bad precedent that diminishes us as human beings, and that makes us more incapable of viewing people outside of a collective (which plays into the hands of statists).

Is Charles Krauthammer a liberal in sheeps clothing. Check out his meeting with Obama below. I wonder if this is like a CBO( Doug Elmendorf) meeting moment below. Afterwards Elmendorf started making up better numbers. I remembered reading it somewhere before. googled and found guess who’s report on it below. Please pass around . More liberals are quoting Krauthammer now. I used to think he was a conservative. I wonder if Charlie is going to get the head job at NPR job or maybe setup up like Andy Stern was at SIGA to make millions from HHS.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/13/obamas-dinner-with-conser_n_157701.html
Barack Obama took the next big step in his Republican charm offensive on Tuesday night, when he dined with several of the nation’s most prominent conservative pundits.
The president-elect arrived at the Chevy Chase, Md., home of syndicated columnist George Will shortly after 6:30 p.m., according to a press pool report. Greeting him at the residence were other luminaries of the conservative commentariat, including the Weekly Standard’s William Kristol, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post