To my surprise I find myself congratulating President Obama tonight as he has been a leader where Brad Miller has not. This does not fit the natural rhythms I have grown accustomed to over the past 2 to 3 years, but there it is.
President Obama:
Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.[altered excerpts from hot air]
For the truth is that none of us can know exactly what triggered this vicious attack. None of us can know with any certainty what might have stopped those shots from being fired, or what thoughts lurked in the inner recesses of a violent man’s mind.
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...what we can’t do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on one another. As we discuss these issues, let each of us do so with a good dose of humility. Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame...
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And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their deaths help usher in more civility in our public discourse, let’s remember that it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy [-- it did not --] but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation, in a way that would make them proud.
And that is leadership, the sort that is needed to arrest the democrat party's current penchant for self inflicted wounds and help move the nation beyond its anger at fellow Americans for having blamed innocents for horror.
Our President has been presidential and has potentially struck the final pleasant notes of a sad and damaging political fail.
I may not have been entirely true to that tune in this post,but again, there it is.
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