CNN Breaking News -- President Obama Is Bringing the " House Down " In Arizona At The Victim's Memorial

Obama Calls for a New Era of Civility in U.S. Politics

[The president led an overflow crowd at the evening service at the University of Arizona in eulogizing the six people who died on Saturday and asking for prayers for the wounded, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who the authorities said was the target of an assassination attempt.

He warned against “simple explanations” and spoke of the unknowability of the thoughts that “lurked in the inner recesses of a violent man’s mind.” He suggested that the events should force individuals to look inward, but also that they should prompt a collective response against reflexive ideological and social conflict.

The president directly confronted the political debate that erupted after the rampage, urging people of all beliefs not to use the tragedy to turn on one another. He did not cast blame on Republicans or Democrats, but asked people to “sharpen our instincts for empathy.”

It was one of the more powerful addresses that Mr. Obama has delivered as president, harnessing the emotion generated by the shock and loss from Saturday’s shootings to urge Americans “to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully” and to “remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.” ]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/us/13oba...

@ Sister Irma,
[...a true example of our country's return to morals and unity and peace (smile) ]
Yes the question is for how long? For another week or perhaps another day. ...

@jen, "I" will be the first one to say how impressed I am at CNN's using street language to talk about the most powerful person in America (except maybe Palin.lol)...

and even much more impressed by their complaining about the opening of teh memorial with drums...because drums is an AFRICAN. INDIAN, RAP , HIP HOP THING.LOL (SMILE)

WELL SO IS PAYING RESPECT FOR MOTHER EARTH AND ASKING FOR PROTECTIO FOR ONES CHILD OFF AT WAR IN THE MIDDLE-EAST...OR IS IT WHEN SAID BY A NATIVE-aMERICAN AND BEING ASKED BY A UNIVERSITY AND THE FAMILY OF THE DEAD VICTIMS, BECAUSE CNN AND FOX DOES NOTLIKE IT? (NUP)

AND, THANK YOU SO MUCH JEN FOR POSTING THIS. (SMILE)

good night,...

@Clark, a true leader ...a true example of our country's return to morals and unity and peace (smile)