I watched this last night. I noticed his entourage: Michele, Holder, Napolitano, Pelosi and Clyburn (with various other liberals). It didn’t take long to realize that the venue was a left-leaning university in a blue city and that the crowd was there not so much to mourn, but to rally around Obama and the leftists. I felt sorry for Governor Brewer. Obama mentioned that he was there for Arizona and would be back if they needed him. I thought of his abandonment of protecting their border and the other Arizonans who had died because of that.
This was definitely political theater and a 2012 campaign thrust. It is clear that Obama loves the limelight. There is no humility about him. His talk was good but I wonder if many noticed his two very quiet references to gun control and help for the mentally ill?
Overall, he will win back some approval points for this....until we all begin to face the very real results of his policies again.
I have had to stay off FR a lot in the last couple of days, when I saw the speech a couple of hours ago my first thought was that this crowd looks like it was bussed in from out of state.
It will definitely go down as the tackiest attempt of a campaign speech when the nation needed comfort, direction and hope.
Instead an usurper was turning it into a an act of “me”, its all about “me”. I won, get used to it.
Yeh I wonder how Jan Brewer felt standing near Obama and Holder who are suing her for trying to protect her state from illegal aliens. I mean undocumented democrats.