In a televised address on Wednesday evening memorial service at the University of Arizona, chairman of national unity in the wake of the tragedy, the bad Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and wounded six other deaths known including a federal judge and the help of Giffords.
"Our hearts are broken by his sudden death, our broken hearts -. And yet our hearts are right to wealth," Obama said in an emotional speech in honor of the victims.
Former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen, usually an outspoken critic of Obama, wrote in the Washington Post comments that the president had "brilliant and courageous" in his.
. "He shone a light on the victims and heroes and their stories told in the middle of the embarrassing debate, which came after the attack, he had gone lost, he gave voice to their courage and their sacrifice - and resumed the story of the day for his "Thiessen said, based on the speech as" real "and" elegance "and" eloquence ".
At the National Review, Jack Pitney Post wrote: "President Obama has a nice speech reminds us that there is more to life than politics and more in politics than personal interest."
David Frum, former speech writer as a Bush who now runs his own blog, said President of challenge, as always, was to connect to a human being. In this he succeeded tonight. He paid tribute to the individuality of the lost honor the pain of victims and was instrumental in bringing the collective recognition of the community to the pain that is the only consolation for the bereaved. "
Philip Klein of the conservative American Spectator wrote that "sounded in his first term, Barack Obama as president of all Americans."
Liberals, such as publishers of David Corn of Mother Jones, Joan Walsh of Salon and columnist Gail Collins, New York Times also gave him high praise.
Obama, a father of two girls, strangled by talking about the inexplicable death of a girl nine years, Christina Taylor Green in the shooting Tucson.
As regrets country for victims and looks to the future, called the president calls his vintage overcome partisanship indirectly prompted political opponents to refrain from blaming each other.
"[W] we can not do is use this tragedy as another opportunity to turn on each other," Obama said. "As we discuss these issues, we each do with a good dose of humility. Instead of pointing the finger or blame, we will use this opportunity to express our moral ideas to listen to each other better, to sharpen the instincts of empathy and remembering all the possibilities offered by our hopes and dreams are linked. "
"I think we can be better."
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