President Barack Obama, who is the president of the United States (you know the guy we’re talking about here, right?), braved the hellish desert hate rays of the people of Arizona last night to speak at a memorial service held in the University of Arizona basketball arena. Apparently the assembled students didn’t realize the purpose of the event, because they treated it like an actual back game, shouting “AIRBALL” when a speaker misspoke, and chanting and jumping up and down in unison when Obama started listing off the victims and who they were. Or something like that, according to Twitter. “Why hasn’t every time Obama’s opened that stupid mouth the past couple years been like that?” the pundits shouted afterward. And the answer, of course, is that it should have been like that. He should have had a bunch of people and a congresswoman get shot at every week.
“If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let’s make sure it’s worthy of those we have lost,” Mr. Obama said. “Let’s make sure it’s not on the usual plane of politics and point scoring and pettiness that drifts away with the next news cycle.”
What a great message! For this sentiment alone, Obama was given 5 points on the night. He bested all speakers, including Gov. Jan Brewer, with a score of 834. Congrats, big guy!
“We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us,” Mr. Obama said. “I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.”
“Obama is clearly in the Team Decency camp, which is an interesting side to take. Team Divisiveness had really been gaining steam there for a while, and probably still leads the game at this point. If Team Decency racks up a few more key endorsements, perhaps from Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner themselves, it may have a chance at winning its bitter battle against its sworn enemies,” the pundits surmised.
But of course, we cannot forget about the performance of the real stars of the show, the U of Arizona students, who were egged on by the U of A Whoop Club or something. Here are a few things we remember them cheering for: that some guy was Mexican, that some guy was from “South Tucson” (REPRESENT![?]), that one of the people murdered went to Arizona too (YEAH WILDCAT DEAD GUY), and that Obama said the word “partners” in addition to “husbands” and “wives” or something like that. You did it, students! You got all the attention you so rightfully deserved!
Some people on Twitter said that we are not allowed to make fun of these students for “GIVING IT UP FOR RANDOM DEETS,” because people grieve in different ways. But somehow we don’t remember seeing the victims’ families punching the air and shouting “THAT’S MY RECENTLY DECEASED LOVED ONE” when their names were read off. And we don’t remember Gabrielle Giffords’ husband yelling “I LOVE YOU, BRO” when Obama got on stage. In other words, those families and that astronaut are pussies.
Still, they provided important support for Obama, bolstering his case against divisiveness. The side of the divide against divisiveness scored some big points for itself.
Oh, great speech, btw. [NYT]
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Obama's blood libel against psychotic mass murderers and those who enable them should not go unchallenged.
Your lips to
God'sKrautie's ears.SCORRRRRRRRRRRRE
Leave it to Obama to drag out the old "Opposition to Violence" Canard
Somehow, Sarah Palin will translate this as Barry's move to repeal the 2nd Amendment.
Obviously, all this talk of peace and opposition to violence means that Obama will immediately take everyone's guns, so it's time to go out and stock up.
Big freaking surprise. The Kenyan played the Civility Card.
<Limbaugh>This is, of course, why the Jared Loughner cell was activated</Limbaugh>
1 Fist up for bloviating hashtag
There was a rather appalling pep-rally attitude among the audience. What part of "memorial service" didn't they understand? And isn't the U of AZ in Tucson supposed to be the "serious" state U, as opposed to the diploma mill in Tempe?
For sufficiently small values of serious. Or if you prefer, it is all relative.
Gotta disagree (not about Tempe…you can't even buy weed on yuppy Mill Ave anymore) and say I have been to too many funerals/memorials in my life and every one was different. People needed a way to connect, be hear, have someone speak their sorrow…that can be rather elating.
Yeah. My wife and I were kind of surprised at all the cheering and clapping. After a few minutes of that I was half expecting some 80's big hair rock band to break out in some sappy ballad where everyone sings along with raised BIC lighters. Strange.
Sister Christian maybe?
Or, after living in a world of fuck you and death threats, it was OK to rally behind people who are both a) still government officials and b) despite being government officials, have not themselves been killed.
Eulogies aren't actually addressed to the past. They address the present–what is the now, who are we today–from out of chaos of tragedy, fear and confusion. The past is brought into the light of the present, interpreted in the frame of who and how we wish to be. And sometimes we must be defiantly joyful, because we have been afraid for too long.
That's beautifully put.
Being from Tucson, you hit the nail on the head there. People there are mourning. But while there has been so much focus on the people who were killed that day, people are grateful that it wasn't worse. There were heroes that day that they want to celebrate. When I talk to people from home, they alternate between being absolutely broken at the loss of life and then gleefully telling me that the woman who works on their air conditioner is the one who pulled the loaded magazine out of the shooter's hand. Defiantly joyful, it is.
Also, (and this I'm sure was lost on the TV crowd and people who don't know the area) McKale Center is a joyful community place for people. We don't have pro sports, It's a college town. The U of A basketball team consistently brings the community together (when our former coach Lute Olson retired, there were some touching articles about this, and when his wife died back in… 2001(?), many of the tributes were about celebrating her life and all that she did for us as a community), so the majority of the crowd is going to have associations that when we go there it is to celebrate life and victory over evil (which we normally associate with ASU, but sadly we've learned this past weekend that there's a lot worse evil than that in the world).
I'm frankly insulted that people are criticizing Tucson over this. I have no idea what Littleton, Colorado, did to heal from their tragedy, but if the school had an actual pep rally to get the kids back on their feet, I'm sure as hell not going to criticize.
Also, just to clarify, while news media outlets have referred to this as a memorial service, that is not how it was billed by organizers. Perhaps the organizers should have explicitly referred to it as a unity rally to avoid confusion.
whoa whoa whoa hang on there. how can we have a unity rally w/out our fair snowbilly princess?
As an English person, from the land of people who are terribly uncomfortable with any show of emotion, I was completely charmed and moved by all the emotion in that room, I loved the exuberance of it , the unedited yells and shouts…just perfect.
At first it seemed odd to me, but as the thing went on it almost felt like some sort of collective effervescence (sociology nerd!). I've never lived in a place that witnessed a tragedy of this magnitude but I can imagine that for some people this would feel like a much needed release.
They must have dragged in the golf gallery that surrounds the 17th tee box at the Waste Management Phoenix Open to be the audience at the "memorial" service. I thought for sure, I heard a few "Get in the hole!!!"s shouted after key points in the various speeches and readings.
I think I just figured out why they don't often put golf courses next to cemeteries.
Could you imagine being at a solemn graveside service, when during the minute of silence, some yob yells out "Get in the hole!"
And what a commentary on the state of the economy and society in general in Arizona that the only sponsor for their PGA tournament is Waste Management.
The wingers are complaining about "Together We Thrive" free T-shirts handed out at the event. I guess they wanted something less divisive distributed, like anything Ann Coulter has ever written or free Glocks.
The right to keep and bear arms shouldn't be denied to the Poors! We need a nice program of Gun Stamps to ensure they have access to assault weapons.
[You Youngs won't remember this, but back when Art Buchwald was alive, and actually funny, and the nation had serious discussions about gun control, he wrote a column on this topic, from whence I stole this joke, because congresscritters were seriously suggesting that gun control would make guns too expensive.]
Free assault rifles with 'You Lie!' emblazoned on them.
That would be hilarious if you had made it up.
Because they hate the true Muscular Jeebis, who would have kicked butt and taken names.
FemiLady Jeebis is bad, 'mmkay.
No, they're just complaining that they weren't shot out of a T-shirt cannon.
They must not of had Sarah Palin's face on them.
Barry needs to learn to clap like a black guy or do it nowhere near open mics…
ah. you've clearly never had a sound guy tell you how to clap near an open mic. "You like high pitched feedback?! NO? Then don't get all clappy over HERE."
i said to mr. fuflans last night: "please tell me that's not barry. he sounds like he's attending a particularly unpleasant musical."
Damnit! I wanted to give you a fist-up but my mouse settled on the fist-down. I'm fisting you in spirit, though.
Did it for you my friend.
Why thank you. As thanks, I correctly fisted you for having my back for incorrectly fisting earlier.
Wow…normally I'm with Wonkette all the way, but this post is way off target. Who is to say the right way to grieve? And an air of celebration was not out of order, as people did survive the gunman's attack.
I respectfully disagree with you, Doctor. The sports crowd/American Idol mentality of the audience was inappropriate. They were cheering for "our side" in a way that cheapened the sobering lesson of the occasion. They were implicitly buying into the model that politics is and should be a "contact sport" in which concussions or fiery collisions or hockey-stick slashings are the real entertainment, and just demonstrate that you are passionate about your side.
And when I say "respectfully disagree," I mean that your skanky carapace should be flayed off your crustacean ass and boiled down to make asshole gumbo, you extraterrestrial cartoon-cunt. (Just kidding, Zoid. Love ya.)
Scruffy is the janitor.
I expect the NY Daily News &/or NY Post to have a front-page hed WILDCAT OFFENSE.
The weirdly-inappropriate cheers during this memorial service made me thing that the people on the dais were memorializing while the audience was watching a basketball game on their smartphones.
They were doing both. You know those kids today – no attention span at all. They were watching the basketball game on the smartphone during the pauses in the speeches.
It's nice to see the president backing up his call for civility with action. As the accompanying photo shows, he is even making nice with former presidential candidate, Gary Bauer.
Oh, word, I thought that was Jan Brewer
That's Gary? He must have had some work done. Big improvement.
At least Obama can speak like this more than once. Bush's post-9/11 peroration was his best, & only good, speech.
Oh come on disenchanted Wonketteers, that shit was jive beautiful. It melted even my cold heart.
It WAS a beautiful speech, well written and well delivered. I'd say that his words touched me, but I know that someone would come along and make that seem dirty.
Agreed. Nobody delivers the rhetoric* like Obama.
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*word nerd dog whistle. Rhetoric is the highest form of speech, not the demagoguery it's often conflated with.
I wish we could see more of THIS Obama from time to time.
Me too.
With all the Glocks being purchased and the hundreds of Congress critters still walking around, we just might.
Yeah. Thought Barry had good form and hit nothing but net.
I want America to be as good as she imagined it
That one got me misty, as cynical as I am.
She got a long way to go, that America.
"He should have a bunch of people and a congresswoman get shot at every week." I certainly wouldn't put it past the righties to say (or at least think … but I'm sure one of them will be vulgar enough to say it out loud) Barry is probably secretly glad all those people got killed because it will bump up his approval ratings. Just ughhh….
Hell, a few nutsoes actually had the gall to claim that he killed his own grandmother to get sympathy votes right before the election.
CAN U PRUVE HE DIDN'T??!!111!!1!!
Within minutes of the first reports of the shooting, I saw postings comparing it to the Reichstag Fire. That Loughner was put up to do the shooting, so Obama would have an excuse to declare Martial Law and start rounding up dissenters. That he was going to abolish the House and declare himself Dictator.
I only wish I was kidding.
haha Tea Pussies. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/fearing-tea-pa...
Cut and run, bitches.
Oh please, I call total bullshit on this. After seeing Hayworth spouting off on CNN the night of the shooting, I'd wager this came directly from J.D.'s lips.
McCain's boy; but the teabaggers aren't racist, no not at all.
No. It's just like Old School — & Blue was white.
They wound up the crazies and now they are losing control of them.
Wingnuts are already hurling poop. When do these assholes sleep?…or do they? Vampires!!11
I'll have to slavishly read what Michelle Malkin tells me to think about this and get back to you.
/full bore wingnut
After the speech I read the twittering masses for a while. The choler began to rise. And then I decided to take Barry's advice instead. I closed the laptop, hugged my man and my dog a little tighter than usual, and was grateful.
What kind of dog, Doxastic?
Boston terrier, as the avatar suggests. He didn't really get the context, but is objectively pro-hugging.
Cool. I thought Doxie too. I have a 6 year old doxie. She is my "other" daughter.
I'm guessing dauchsund.
Doxie is a great word, one of those that's just fun to say. It's been one of my favorites ever since running across this summary of Palgrave's Golden Treasury:
Some five per cent to God and to his saints
A little more to Nature and her proxies
And all the rest, God help us, to complaints
From chaps pursuing, or pursued by, doxies"
1. University venue was a BIG FUCKING MISTAKE! Whoever is responsible for that should be fired; even I know a church or civic center would be more conducive to a dignified event. And a sports venue to boot? STOOOOOPID!
2. What do you expect from a drug-addled college crowd?
3. The phrase that comes to mind, sadly: Pearls before swine.
4. Blood Libel.
5. Refudiate.
6. You Betcha!
It's too bad the gunman didn't go to the University of Arizona. If he did, he would likely have been finished after the first round.
If he went to UA, he would have been too hung over on Saturday morning to do anything except sit in the shower and moan.
It's too bad he didn't go to the University of Phoenix; then his gun would have turned out to be fake and useless.
Why did they let him speak? How come Bristol didn't speak, representing real merka?
“We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, (pauses, and looks signifcantly at Gov. Jan Brewer,) but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us,” Mr. Obama said.
Gov. Brewer's thoughts after that:
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Shiny lights!
Your move, Tundra Twat. Oh…
Yes, she must be seething that the media is talking about how uplifting Barry's speech was & how petty & shallow she came across.
OT: Is it just me or does 'blood libel' sounds like it should be a Jeopardy category:
'I'll take Blood Libel for $200, Alex."
How can someone give a speech at a memorial service and make it about dead and wounded, and not about "ME ME ME ME ME!"
Palin's so vain, she probably thinks this comment's about her.
…clouds in her coffee, clouds in her coffee….
" . . . the usual plane of politics and point scoring and pettiness." Except for the alliteration, sounds just like basketball. Still, good speech, Bro.
Actually, I expect said pundits to opine about how the whole tragedy could have been avoided had we all listened better to Reagan, and then promptly the House will declare another week of national mourning (for Reagan, that is).
I saw a clip of that and my only thought was that the Arizona flag sure reminded me of the North Vietnamese one, what with that big yellow star in the center.
You're undoubtedly correct. And then the "mainstream'" news outlets will replay their bile without calling them on it, as usual. I await Mara Liasson's idiot spin on Limbaugh's/O'Reilly's/etc. certain-to-be partisan and inflaming shit rhetoric.
The other day I really enjoyed how Mara Liasson made it seem like it was a cynical emotion-tugging ploy to capitalize politically upon it, for Obama to do this kind of appearance.
And by "enjoyed," I mean I nearly climbed up on my nightstand and shat into my clock radio upon hearing it. IT WAS THAT GOOD
ARGH gawd yes!
I was saddened by the criticism of those who didn't like the Native American blessing. I was very touched by it. That peter-puffer Brit Hume doesn't realize that our ancestors culled their ancestral herd with the gift of smallpox.
It's not like Michelle Obama started the crowd in "the wave" or anyone brought an air horn. I didn't see any shirtless college dudes, with their washboard abs, with G-O D-E-A-D painted on them. I did see G-O D-A-D! Come to think of it, maybe the E was getting some Bud Light Lime for everyone.
Seriously, I was touched by the memorial and I sobbed my heart out, truly. I was annoyed at first with the cheers and then I cheered along and it healed my heart a bit.
A sampling o' Wingnut blog comments, paraphrased except when in quotes:
1. None of the victims was Yaqui, therefore this was an insult to the dead, who clearly would have wanted a Christian invocation. (Napolitano and Holder reading from the Bible doesn't count, because they're libruls)
2. "Cheif Looney Toon thru me for a loop! Feather shaking, windows, doors, wind(ooops that was a fart) what the hell was that?"
3. "Do you think the liberals want God mentioned? They could barely stand the word as it was."
4. "There is no doubt this half mexican/half Yaqui, clearly hasn’t moved on to “American” in the 5 generations since his family escaped genocide to the safety of the USA."
5. Gonzales was included to stir up the illegal immigrants and their librul supporters. So was that fat gay heroic intern.
6. "This really smacks of the same type of the hyper-inclusiveness of the Obama administration."
Gosh, this memorial would have been a lot better if it had been organized somewhere other than Tucson….
EDIT: My kid, home from school with a cold, reminded me that gleaning right-wing blogs for ugliness isn't in keeping with the tone Barry tried to set last night. So I'm going to get off the computer and play Scrabble with him. If I can get him to turn off Grand Theft Auto…
I hate to agree with wingers, but they're right, this liberal would be absofuckinglutely thrilled if God wasn't mentioned. Unless, of course, they're quoting from Nietzche. Not everything has to be about Jesus and Sarah.
Wow, I hope your child feels better soon.
Since when did it become okay to shit on the Native Americans again?
Again? In many circles, it's never gone out of vogue.
The boyo is feeling better, actually. Were it not for the coughing, I'd almost accuse him of malingering
(A smiley on Wonkette? Do we do that?)
I find that Mucinex thins everything out and gets those lungs cleared back up again.
My husband is a corporate business executive for a Native American company. I love his company so much. I bake them festive buttery baked goods at the drop of a hat. They've named me "Dances with Sprinkles" and I am honored for their friendship.
Michelle had planned to wear a uniform and bring her pompoms, but saner heads prevailed.
And all over the country straight male Wonketariat members pause for a moment in a beautiful place.
All of this makes my Snark-o-Meter go to zero.
We all need a warm beach and a cold Corona.
Nate the Skate Silver thinks Obamar stepped-up and sounded like the only adult in the room and mused that Snobillie's tape drifted of into self-parody.
Still likely that Barry will have about as much luck quieting-down the Teatards as he would "stopping a tree full of chimps from masturbating."
As a Seattleite, you're not supposed to mention Mr. Silver until the NFL Playoffs are over.
Until then, we're not speaking.
Saw that too and shared it with my twins who are over-the-top Hawks fans. Not trying to dim the lights prematurely, but rather as a touch of reality to avoid them betting their underwater mortgages on the upcoming games. To end up with a winning season, the Seahawks have to win the Super Bowl, which likely will take more luck that we have in all of our NW talismen and taliswomen. But hey, Gabby is looking at and giving thumbs up pee points to her visitors so …
True story and completely OT,a few years ago on a first date with a gentleman we went to the zoo and a gibbon slid down the front of the glass enclosure right in front of me and started to masturbate furiously, all the while staring right at me.
Well, what was he supposed to do when confronted with your brazen beauty, Liz?
On a more nerdy note, wankfests like that appear to be a side effect of captivity (along with lots of other interesting sexual experimentation, according to DeWaal and others to study our primate relatives). I think of this and the pooh flinging as Darwin's ultimate vindication, as Lord knows that would be my routine if I was stuck in a box all damn day with no cable or Wonkette.
Just like in one of those Men in Black movies where the dog says "I'm not even the same species, and I'm attracted!"
A tree full of bonobos would be better. I imagine the chimps would be too busy flinging poo.
Once you've flung poo, you'll never go back!
Why would you want to stop them?
Seriously.
Am I the only one who was relieved that nobody was shot during the rally?
I did give that some thought. Maybe there were enhanced patdowns.
I did kind of worry about Barry when he wasn't inside a building. He may need to borrow the pope's PopeMobile when he's out & about these days. World's gone insane.
Word on the street was the building was pumped full of nitrous oxide for the event. Explains the irrational exuberance and non-shootiness, both.
Honestly, at the ending reprise of "Fanfare for the Common Man," the kettle drums gave me one hell of a start.
Also, kudos on the musical choices. Can't go wrong with Copland.
OK, well, maybe "Rodeo" would not have fit here…
The sherrif could give a speach that raises the dead and heals the sick, it wouldn't matter, the teabaggers would still rage, because, in the end, Sheriff Obama is still near.
You know, as nice as it would be if every utterance by Obama really were like the trumpets of angels, A) he really is only human, not a walking Inspirational Speech Machine, B) if he talked like this all the time about, like, industrial policy, people would just get used to it and be bored, C) he shouldn't have to give an Inspiration Speech every other day to remind people to not be assholes, so just Shut It, people whining that he doesn't sound like this all the time about your pet cause.
Jack, you have standards of conduct that are impossibly high for us proles and peasants. Someone needed to point how unseemly it could have become but there had to be a memorial service, Obama had to be there and it actually came off pretty well.
Dear Fellow Wonketeers:
While listening on the White House's official Marconi device last night, Franklin and I were shocked – shocked! — to hear the violent songs that were played in connection with this event.
One in particular clearly was a deliberate incitement to violence, encouraging listeners to engage in assault with a deadly weapon, if not outright murder.
Given the concerns expressed in this blog in recent days, and our shared believe that federal legislation is the cure for all social ills, I am sure that you will join me in demanding that Congress immediately ban all performance, and all publication, of this vicious, morally offensive "hate song."
I refer, of course, to "If I Had A Hammer," performed by the hate group "Peter, Paul & Mary."
Also, I am sure you will join me in demanding the immediate ban on the sale of such dangerous devices, their registration, and a requirement that anyone using such socially useless weapons complete a 10- week training course monitored by a newly created Division of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Hammers.
Let us never forget that our Fellow Traveler toward the Worker's State, Leon Trosky. was killed by a RingWingNut armed with an ice axe. That's completely different from a hammer, true; and the assassin was in the employ of our good friend Uncle Joe Stalin.
But when have we ever let the facts get int the way of doing what is Morally Right?
Cordially,
Eleanor
tl;dr
not funny
And in these parts, that's far worse than being politically stupid.
Peter, Paul & Mary a hate group? LOL!
Trolleanor Trollsevelt, you work so hard at this, one wonders why? Your fist won't get romantic with you without lots of negative attention foreplay?
Welcome back, asshat.
Screw decency – Hey baggers, how's 2011 workin' out for ya so far?
Dear Fellow Wonketeers:
Pardon my last post, but I forgot to mention that Franklin and i also were disappointed by the tone and content of the President's speech.
Conspicuously absent was the kind of terminology that we know, as demonstrated by the recent posts in here, are both necessary and appropriate to express True Liberal Moral Outrage and Anger at the horrific events in Arizona.
Where, where, in the President's speech were terms equivalent to those that we know are required to express truly one's emotion?
Where, where were the words "cocksucker," "cunt," asshole," "fucker"?
And where, where was the phrase, "Fuck you, Hate! We'll kill you, cut out your eyes, feed them to a pack of rabid dingos while we rape your wife in front of your children, before setting the whole lot of you on fire and roasting our marshmallows on the coals while reading aloud a poem by a junior college student about her abortion"?
Anything less than this was patently inadequate to express True Liberal indignation — as evidence by our posts.
Cordially,
Eleanor
T
You got anymore of whatever you're smoking? It does have the drawaback of making what you write unreadable, but what are a few "WTFs?" between friends?
Neilist reincarnated.
You do know the immortal words of teh Wonkette banner:
"Politics for people with dirty minds".
get over yourself motherfucker
Aw, how cute! It is a troll playing an ironic historical recreation!
There's this weird thing about humor being essentially nullified by trying way too damn hard, you know?
Oh, snap. You don't.
My sweet Eleanor,
Please refrain from including me in your disappointment, as I am dead.
Yours (as well as Lucy's and Missy's) lovingly,
Franky Baby
I thought it was a very nice ceremony overall – celebrating the lives of those killed and aknoowledging those who helped to save others…what I didn't get was Jan Brewer….does that woman smoke like six packs a day or what?
If you were stuck being Jan Brewer, wouldn't you smoke six packs a day?
From what I've observed of "Jan the Great" she's wrapped her lips around way too many Camels.
In the War Against Divisiveness, you're either for us or against us.
A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox!
(how do I get the leetle musical notes in here?)
I made the mistake of posting the speech on Facebook via Youtube, before noticing that the comments on the speech were all psychotic….mostly people who deeply fear the Government. It's like the comments cancelled out all the hopefulness embodied within the speech. SCAREY!
thats what we keep trying to tell people about Beck-Hannity-Rush followers. they are heavily armed, too.
Obama calls for civility. O.K., will he pay for our move to Europe?
I didn't watch the memorial and haven't gone back to dig up clips online, but as far as the cheering goes, I remember for days and days after 9/11 people were rallying on street corners, waving flags as the passing cars honked at them and the drivers raised their fists in solidarity. In short, it was like a pep rally before the big game. So I'm not going to judge a bunch of college kids cheering, even at a memorial. It was probably a good release for them, anyway.
I'm actually kind of shocked to see the reaction to this among some. I watched it, and at the very beginning, it was a bit confusing, but it felt totally natural and necessary and all-around excellent as the program moved on.
Plus, in my community, we celebrate at funerals. Sadness and joy are not mutually exclusive, and neither should their simultaneous expressions. So, I say to hell with stuffy WASPs (and their sympathizers) and their "rules" about what is and isn't socially acceptable. These weren't cads in the audience making a mockery of the event. And shame on any fucker who questions the motives of thousands of students who wait hours in line to get into what was basically a funeral service, 'cause, students are just beating down the door to see the president at a memorial service, right?
Honestly, I'm kind of sickened.
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