"If there are puddles in paradise, now that's where Christina is jumping. And here, on earth, we put our hands on their hearts and pledge, as Americans, to forge a country worthy for his gentle spirit and always happy. " With these words, uttered with evident emotion, Barack Obama, concluded Wednesday evening, speaking at the memorial service for victims of the massacre of Tucson.The words of a father directed, first of all, another father and a mother sitting there a few meters away, without even more tears. For 34 minutes Obama was the father of Christina and at the same time, the father of his father as president of that country that gave life and death to small Green.
Even Glenn Beck ever, but just do not say generous with the president, this time thanked him for being the "president of all Americans." University of Arizona, among the people "mortally wounded", Obama came up with a difficult task, to console and uplift, indicating the road to recovery.
The task of all the presidents. Same as it fell to Regan after the explosion of the shuttle Challenger and Clinton after the Oklahoma City massacre, both had the merit of making the country feel less lost. Obama's speech was a speech that is perfect in all points of view because it touched on many topics, such as the need to bring the tone of politics at a level of civilization or of the importance that the country take care of those with mental problems now mostly left on their own.
He called for unity and solidarity as essential tools to try to build a country up to the expectations of the little Christina. All without ever losing sight of the main objective: to celebrate the lives of the fallen, the symbols of the best part of all these incredibly diverse, states that is America.
And, above all, Obama was a father who feels a responsibility to explain to their children how to die nine years while trying to get in touch with the highest form of democracy, participation in public life. Speaking of Christina and honor his memory, Obama reminded the Americans that need to be good fathers and good mothers to our children, to be worthy of what they expect from us.
What the country has not been able to give Christina. And the good fathers and good mothers do not leave guns around that can kill. They do not speak with hatred of those who have ideas different from ours, or different skin or different walks of life. The good fathers and good mothers will roll up their blankets and tell you the beauty in life and then try every day to make it for you constantly, before passing the baton.
Obama, in which everyone, without distinction, have recognized the merit of having found intact his extraordinary oratory skills, those able to communicate a vision that can unite and comfort because it is based on hope, reminded everyone that although it is not easy even if you fall, even if you make a mistake you can, always choose the path we want to go.
Choose from the vision of a world worthy of a little girl of nine years, and the simplest possibility of an unfortunate (in the sense of free grace) environment for adults only, and obscure vulgar. In a letter to the New York Times, Alfred Niese, a citizen of Maine, writes, "the president (with his speech) led the nation in the top of the mountain.
If ricadremo into the abyss, it is not his fault, but ours. "
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