Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How very presidential of her. Instead of doing some good during the AZ shooting aftermath, she was busy defending her words, and now defending the defense of her words.
No wonder only 30% of America agrees with her.
I don't believe being "very presidential" is the issue. She was "busy" defending herself from accusations that she was in part responsible for the shooting tragedy in Arizona. I guess you think she should have ignored the accusations and not defended herself?
If all she can muster up in the midst of a national tragedy is a personal defense, she's not fit for the job. She could have said this:
You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations -- to try and pose some order on the chaos and make sense out of that which seems senseless.... And much of this process, of debating what might be done to prevent such tragedies in the future, is an essential ingredient in our exercise of self-government. But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized -- at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think differently than we do -- it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. ...Yes, we have to examine all the facts behind this tragedy. We cannot and will not be passive in the face of such violence. We should be willing to challenge old assumptions in order to lessen the prospects of such violence in the future. But what we cannot do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each other... As we discuss these issues, let each of us do so with a good dose of humility. Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let's use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.
It sounds a heck of a lot better than "I will not shut up".