Posted on 01/12/2011 11:43:24 AM PST by kristinn
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will be in Tucson Wednesday to attend the "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America" event at the McKale Memorial Center on the University of Arizona campus. The event is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. MST (8 p.m. EST) with doors opening at 4 p.m. MST (6 p.m. EST).
According to a university news release, organizers are expecting thousands of people to attend. If the 14,000-seat arena reaches capacity, overflow seating will be available at the university's football stadium. Video of the memorial will be shown on the scoreboard's big screen.
SNIP
Opening music
A Native American blessing
Welcome by University of Arizona President Robert N. Shelton
The playing of the National Anthem
Remarks by President Shelton
Remarks by a University of Arizona Student
Remarks by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R)
Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
Remarks by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
Remarks by President Obama
Moment of silence
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
I am not watching but I can hear my husband in the other room shreiking at this awful display.
He keeps saying OMG, OMG, I can’t believe it.
Get a load of THIS picture of the "comforter and wife"...what a sense of decorum, hmmmm?
Lord, I miss George W. and Laura Bush!
Masculin-in-ity...
Senor Garcia did not practice this.
WHO PAID FOR THOSE TEE-SHIRTS?????????
SEM....I’m railing at the gods. What were they thinking?
“From Father Sky where we get the masculine energy...and Mother Earth where we get the feminine energy...”
Gov. Brewer, please walk out of there. Somebody, please, have the dignity to leave.
This whole Native American blessing thing is just too weird...maybe I don’t get it.
Hug, kiss, have a Guinness! And one for the Mrs.
Wow.
I am dumbstruck.
Yes sir, they were.
My prayers also for their families, especially those that may have felt compelled in some way to attend this spectacle of a memorial. What would and should have been a true tribute to those who lost their lives, has been diluted (and that’s the most civil term I can use to describe what is before my eyes)
Hey dude....pass the peyote.
I am truly at a loss for words here.
Phony, through and through. But, not to worry, the Fox All-Stars will give him glowing cudos! Especially, Charles, who battered Sarah again tonight on the show! He has gone to the left of Bowrama!
Anything to keep Jesus Christ out of sight / out of mind.
Catholic priests/Christian ministers at events like this are not allowed to invoke Catholic/Christian theology like our Dr. Carlos Gonzalez invokes the four winds of the Creator of his Indian religion.
I turned the CD player off and the TV sound up for a minute. Between the hooting and cheering...man, I feel even WORSE for the families of the wounded and dead. Imagine taking time, while you are grieving, to drag yourself to this tawdry pep rally.
Look under those words...”Action in America”
Cold Beer! Cold Beer! Get your ice cold beer here!
Is it just me, or is FR moving like molasses right now?
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