I have to believe that if I was confused so were many Americans Conservatives or not about why were Sarah Palin and the Tea Party brought up after a massacre where a 9 year old girl was killed and the killer had no political affiliations that anyone has been able to prove yet. All the Democrats had was that the one person who seemed to matter most in all this tragedy was the Senator who happens to be a Democrat. How come we have not heard much about the judge that was killed or the others who were hurt in the process? Is it because she was 9 years old and died that the little girl got any attention at all?

This is a sad moment in our history when a party would take something as sacred as the death of people at the hands of a nut case and use it as a political weapon against the opposing party. Even worse was that President Obama did not want to let a crisis go to waste by giving a "campaign style" speech at the little girls funeral.

That part is sad - but it seems most Americans (and especially Arizonans) rejected the hate and embraced each other in a fraternal bonding to resist the haters (both Westboro and democrats).  Westboro called it off - I do not believe because they got "religion" but because of the singular response of the community to stand between them and the funeral.

Brokaw says he is afraid of Tucson - I do not think he is afraid of getting shot, but he is afraid to face the unity of a community united against bigotry and hate.

Those on the left have revealed themselves to the American people. Hateful, selfish, and petty. They can't backtrack and do any damage control on this one as their own darling press was complicit in this one. Instead of showing any measure of human compassion and mourning over a heinous crime committed by an obvious madman, they immediately and joyfully leaped into their typical hate-fest in an attempt to further their political ideology. Yeah, real nice folks.

And what kind of despicable, insensitive, inhuman creatures cheer, applaud, and give away souvenir tee shirts at a memorial service?  Nice folks indeed. I am sure that made the friends and families of the victims feel all warm and fuzzy. I know it made my blood boil.

As for those hateful cretins from Westboro, I refuse to acknowledge their existence on this planet. If there is a Hell, I am sure they have first class reservations there.

I was also pleased to learn that we had a President of such great intellect, courtesy of UofA's president.  Sorry, but blowing smoke up anyone's ass, President or otherwise, at a memorial service is just crass.

The whole thing was creepy, from the too-long & too-weird Native American blessing to the very end.  I half expected balloons to drop from the ceiling when he finished his completely inappropriate crescendo closing.

And of course, if you noticed, he had to tell us what 'we must not do,' as opposed to humbly appealing to our humanity.  Coldest fish imaginable, who had no business scolding anyone after the shit he's said and done.  Arrogantly telling us 'we' must now be humble.  All the more unfathomable being the father of a 9-year old daughter himself.  Only speech he's ever given that wasn't dominated by the word 'I' when he really needed to throw a few in, acknowledging his own behavior.

I guess you can tell this is one heart & mind he did not win over.

You should have written that up as a blog in itself!  Excellent comments all the way around!

Another great comment!  And I agree.  He just does not have the Bill Clinton "I feel your pain" mode down.  I was not moved and thought his long winded speech was just that - too long and too winded.

People forget the Gettysburg address was only 256 words and only lasted a couple of minutes.  Yet it is remembered 150 years later as one of the greatest speeches of all time.