Thursday, January 13, 2011

Obama Speaking in Tucson to the nation

Tucson - It was a speech that deeply moved - again and again surged to applause: after the bloody attack in Arizona, U.S. President Barack Obama called on Americans to greater tolerance and unity. The tragedy had to be used as a chance to deal with each other to the test, Obama said Wednesday at a memorial service for the victims in Tucson.

"At a time polarize in our debates so strong, it is important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we talk to each other in a way that is healing, not offensive," said Obama at the ceremony in the University of Arizona. Only a "civil and honest" public discourse could help Americans tackle their problems, the U.S. president said in his highly emotional about half-hour speech.


"We are all Americans and we can discuss the ideas of others without questioning their love for their country in question," he added. No one can say exactly what were the causes of the assassination. There is no "simple explanation".

Instead of pointing the finger at one another or make accusations, people should use this occasion therefore to listen to each other better, so Obama. Obama paid tribute to the seriously injured by a head shot Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the six dead. About each victim, he said, personal words.

"Our hearts are broken by her sudden death," he said. Especially emotionally said the U.S. president on the nine-year-old girl Christina Taylor Green, had been killed in the attack. "In Christina we all see our children. So curious, so trusting, so energetic and full of magic," said Obama.

Immediately after his arrival in the U.S. state of Arizona, Obama had visited the MP Giffords at the bedside. Shortly after his visit had Giffords for the first time since the attack again opened his eyes, said the President. "They know we are here and they know that we love them and they know we are cheering them on their difficult journey." 24,000 people listened to the speech in a hall in the University of Arizona and in a nearby stadium.

Numerous high-ranking U.S. officials attended the ceremony, including Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder. Also Giffords' husband, the NASA astronaut Mark Kelly took part. had after the attack on Saturday, killing the suspected perpetrators Jared Loughner six people and injured 14 more, the sound between the warring parties to the Republicans and the Democrats had exacerbated.

The Republican politician Sarah Palin, an icon of the rights of custody, in a video message to have contributed, that the assassin could have moved to the shooting of the deputy Gabrielle Giffords, however, against the charge by polarizing rhetoric in a political climate. The House of Representatives met in Washington on Wednesday for a special session and unanimously adopted a resolution against violence.

The meeting was very emotional in parts. "Our hearts are broken but our spirit is not," said the President of the Chamber, John Boehner, with tears in his eyes. The Republican majority leader Eric Cantor called the crime an "attack on the core of democracy." The totality of the federal judge in Arizona has been excluded from the trial of an alleged perpetrator Jared Loughner.

The impartiality of judges, in view of what happened, not guaranteed, said Judge Roslyn Silver. During the attack, a federal judge in Arizona had been killed. As was announced on Wednesday, a game warden to the alleged offender Loughner had stopped about three hours before the crime because he had hit a red light.

After checking his papers, he was verbally warned by police and was allowed to continue because nothing had been submitted against him.
Posted by Manlio Gandolfi at 11:10 AM

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