Conservatives like to argue that these are isolated incidents carried out by lunatics and therefore carry no big lessons (unless the perpetrator is Muslim, in which case it’s terrorism); liberals view them as opportunities to address various social ills. Obama is in the latter category and should act accordingly. “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel famously said in 2008. The same goes for a shooting spree that gravely wounds a beloved congresswoman.
For his full comments: http://weaselzippers.us/2011/01/10/lefty-newsweek-columnist-jonathan-alter-can-hardly-contain-his-excitement-over-ways-obama-can-profit-politicly-from-giffords-shooting/
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January 10, 2011 at 8:13 pm
gumply
He already has, remember he called for a moment of silence so he could appear to be human.
January 13, 2011 at 8:36 am
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