Obama campaigns in Vegas after ‘tough day’

[alp227]

Source: Washington Post

President Obama went through with a campaign appearance in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening and, after laboring to quiet an exuberant crowd, began his speech with a somber tribute to the four Americans killed Tuesday in Libya.

Obama, visibly weary and seeming to struggle to display the usual energy and sharpness of his campaign appearances, opened with a description of the “tough day that we’ve had today.” With a crowd of more than 8,000 at a Las Vegas convention center still screaming and cheering, Obama, wearing no jacket and his sleeves rolled up, held up his hands and paid tribute to the dead, who he said “were working to advance the interests and the values that we hold dear as Americans.”

“It’s a reminder that the freedoms we enjoy, sometimes even the freedoms we take for granted, they’re only sustained because there are people like those who were killed who are willing to stand up for those freedoms, who were willing to fight for those freedoms, in some cases to lay down their lives for those freedoms,” the president said. “So tonight, let’s think of them and thank them.”

Obama also reiterated his promise to “bring their killers to justice.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/obama-campaigns-in-vegas-after-tough-day/2012/09/12/5310f094-fd4a-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html

[gateley]

1. And I’d take the "bring killers to justice" very seriously.

[Cha]

4. Yes, they're not

empty words.

[speedoo]

8. I expect some of them will see justice by Nov. 6.

At least I hope so.

[Firebrand Gary]

9. You know they are pissing themselves! They know this President does not fuc* around!

I'd bet they are half way to the Congo by now!

[SoapBox]

2. "With a crowd of more than 8,000..."

All I can say is

[Cha]

3. Yes, they have had

a tough day.

"“It’s a reminder that the freedoms we enjoy, sometimes even the freedoms we take for granted, they’re only sustained because there are people like those who were killed who are willing to stand up for those freedoms, who were willing to fight for those freedoms, in some cases to lay down their lives for those freedoms,” the president said. “So tonight, let’s think of them and thank them.”

[lonestarnot]

5. I'm bone dead tired, my ass is dragg'n, and I'm not done yet for the day. Poor Mr. President.

Mental anguish is the worst kind of fatigue. Mr. President

[freshwest]

6. He was probably up last night or very early, wishing him some rest tonight.

And that those in this country like Romeny, Bryan Fischer and so many others fanning the flames of hatred will stop. They should conisder the good people who are dead, their families and the people in Libya now worrying about their survival because of the warmongers here in the USA..

[lonestarnot]

7. Yes.