"What we can’t do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on one another." Biggest applause line of night, so far.
POTUS asks us to expand our moral imaginations and to sharpen our instincts for empathy.
A lovely speech. Anyone want to argue with that?
Obama's words: "[W]hat we can't do is use this tragedy as 1 more occasion 2 turn on one another."
Always, always, always Obama asks us to remember there is no US and THEM there is just "we." We are linked. We are one.
Obama addressing, as he did during the campaign, the desire for American unity.
Obama has two girls. He's speaking about them. This is when he seems the most emotional.
"The loss of these wonderful people should make every one of us strive to be better." If only.
"Only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation." Key word, of course, is "honest."
POTUS reminds us Civility is necessary to honor those lost, not because it caused their death. Hello nuance!
"We can question each other’s ideas without questioning each other’s love of country." If only.
POTUS is reminding us that we cannot abandon the high road just because it is rocky.
Obama asks us to make America as good as Christina imagined it. #YES
Obama letting his own emotions crescendo in the speech, telling Christina's story. "I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it."
the line that caught Obama's voice: "If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today."
Thank you President Obama. We needed you tonight. You showed up.
I am reminded that we must peer even harder into our unknowable future to see a beloved community that is outlined there.
President speaks as aspirational, inspirational, even sentimental leader--a healer, a humanist, a committed public servant.
"Weeping may endure for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning." Psalm 30:5
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.--Matthew 5:4
Lost my connection toward end if the speech. Overall impression: a very positive moment & a reminder of O's considerable abilities
Peace I leave w/ you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives...Do not not be afraid.--John 14:27
Reax to thus speech might separate the haters from the principled opponents. Then again..,,
Republican and Democrat, not a dry eye in the arena. Leave it to presidential historians to rank that speech, I bet it'll be high.
This is obviously a man who hates America, freedom, and liberty and wants to weaken the nation.
Obama: use this "to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy"
Good night. I am going to go hug my 8-year-old until she makes me leave her alone.
Do yourself a favor and let that speech sink in before you tune into the slice and dice of TV.
When President spoke of kindness & need to expand our moral imaginations and of humility & complexity, I remembered Candidate Obama.
I have a 9-year-old daughter. I cannot imagine having to give such a speech. It's heartening to see a leader lead so well.
Emotion not reason is what so often drives our politics. If kind & good emotion, go with it! Tonight we saw emotional leader in President/
There you go. RT @GregMitch Michael Gerson on CNN: an Obama "pep rally" and how dare he "lecture" about the "news cycle"? And "too long."
Husband believed President lost opportunity 4 great speech. He thought it was Hallmark/y. I told him to shove it. He called me a Left Oprah/
A President who uses word "discourse"/ has me at get go.
Husband believes President missed opportunity 2 call out those who have poisoned our politics. If everybody guilty, then nobody guilty.
What a surprise. RT @DarthWeiner75: @DavidCornDC @GregMitch Krauthammer of Faux just put down the Native prayer.
Crisis is moment for creativity. Did Obama use the moment to speak to larger truths afflicting our society and country?
Husband told me there is no crying as editor of The Nation. I told him there's time for crying & time for fighting. Tonight, I cry.
I also thought deft use of words by President: "self-government" and "public-spiritedness" --If we lived up 2 those/make us stronger nation
President Obama would have been a great civic spiritualist at turn of 20th century. Religion: Public-spiritedness.
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