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Obama uses careful tone to urge 'a more civil' tone in politics quote:
Obama Tucson speech: 'We can be better' Speaking at the memorial service for those killed in the Tucson shooting, President Obama said, "those who died here, those who saved lives here - they help me believe." Thursday, January 13, 2011; 6:39 AM President Obama carefully interjected himself Wednesday night into the debate over political civility in the wake of the Arizona shootings. He urged "a more civil and honest public discourse" but avoided any suggestion that the heightened political tensions of the past several years may have influenced the gunman. While some Democrats have suggested partisan rhetoric from conservatives has created a highly charged political environment that may have led to Saturday's shooting, the president declined to endorse that view. "Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath," he said in Tucson at a memorial service for the victims. "For the truth is that none of us can know exactly what triggered this vicious attack. None of us can know with any certainty what might have stopped those shots from being fired, or what thoughts lurked in the inner recesses of a violent man's mind." At the same time, reducing partisanship and rancor has long been a major priority of Obama, and he argued that a more civil tone in politics should be a result of the shooting, even if it wasn't a cause. "And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their deaths help usher in more civility in our public discourse, let's remember that it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy, but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation, in a way that would make them proud," he said. "It should be because we want to live up to the example of public servants like John Roll and Gabby Giffords, who knew first and foremost that we are all Americans, and that we can question each other's ideas without questioning each other's love of country." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011301143.html
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