I'm really inclined to give the administration a pass on that one. They have people who specialize in doing rallies, and I think they just reverted to type under stress.
But the students should really have known better. The family of the victims were right there in the audience, and I think Obama truly wanted it to be about them.
If it was my daughter who had been murdered, I don't think I could've sat through that.
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
I admired him for it; far and few things to tip my hat in his direction.
That too, would be my sentiments.
I admired him for allowing the US Navy Seals to take care of the Pirates the way they should be taken care of-- I admired him for reversing course on Iraq, which he did (for a time-until, If I remember right, the military said it was time), and I admired him for another stand he took (late now, can't remember), but he basically took a Reaganesque stand against a country on something which I admired him for.
Can't really say much else in his two years of "leadership" so far.