President Barack Obama |
He avoided it stings party instead on the sometimes heated rhetoric that dominated the political landscape and said, criticizing ". Only a civil discourse and honest public can help us, our challenges as a nation"
"In a time when our discourse is so polarized - at a time when we blame also prepared everything, the world touched the feet of those who think differently of us - it is important for us to pause for a moment, and we ensure that we talk to each other in a way heals, not that the injured person, "Obama said.
"I think for all of our imperfections. We are full of decency and kindness, and multiple 'multiple 'multiple 'that' the force's multiple 'multiple 'multiple 'that' are not as strong as those multiples 'multiple 'multiple 'that' unite us. I think we can split it better," he said.
The first reactions to the speech were very positive. An editorial in The Arizona Republic said: "The Speech the President was about ideas and values that unite us as a nation -.. on what we share than what separates us from humanity Obama demonstrated great leadership and wisdom"
The New York Times said: ". It is concentrated to the right to life of the deceased ... his stories to be told. His life celebrated with tears," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said: "In a time of great sadness, there was a Preview of the gentler America, he described.. (question) seems to come not from the pen of a speech writer, but with heart. "
Praise came from even unlikely. Rich Lowry of National Review, said: "The PEP-rally atmosphere was inappropriate and embarrassing, but Obama has become a great power, it was a matter not in contradiction with the permission of the real civil war, in stark contrast to us. Read and heard these days. "
Even our own governor Chris Christie thought to Barack Obama last night in white. "I thought it was very good. I think he did exactly what a leader should do in a moment like this," Christie said today Good Morning America.