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Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame. lets use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all of the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together. >> you know i want to talk about the president. i think to a larger extents, and mark, youre an expert on this, positioning and politics and what you try to do here as messaging, i know that the president had a job to do for himsel...

>> the president: but what we cannot do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each other. [ applause ] >> the president: that we cannot do! [ applause ] >> the president: that we cannot do. as we discuss these issues, let each of us do so with a good dose of humility. rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame. lets use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations. to listen to each other more carefully.

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But what we cannot do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each other. [ applause ] that we cannot do. [ applause ] that we cannot do. as we discuss these issues, let each of us do so with a good dose of humility. rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, lets use this occasion to expand our moral

Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame. lets use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instikts for empathy and remind ourselves of how our hopes and dreams are bound together. >> i think to a larger extent, mark, youre an expert on this. i think the president had a job to do for himself last night in his own defense. he started off somewhere around 65%. so a lot of people had hope about him. before we get into health care...

Night. speaking to the audience that didnt understand they were attending a memorial service. the president hit all the right points in defining the terrible atrocity that took place last saturday. first of all he addressed points. >> scripture tells us there is evil in the world and terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. in the work of job, when i looked for light and then came darkness. bad things happen. we have to guard against simple explanations in the aftermath....

At a time when our discourse that is become so sharply polarized, a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world, the defeat of those -- at the feet of those who happen to think differently than we do, its important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that were talking with each other in a way that heals. not in a way that wounds. not in pointing fingers or assigning blame. lets use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations. to listen to each other more...

It was outstanding, but, chris, he took us to a very higher level, when he said, look, lets get up away from this partisanship, this pettiness, this politics, and stand on common ground where we can all agree and, frankly, it was an admonition to both sides in this quarrel that weve been having for five days to cool it. and lets come together and in the memories of these folks. >> well, hes got his job and ive got mine, okay? lets take a look at at what president said about finger-pointing, lets...