Obama: 'We Mourn With You' - Urges a National Dialogue of Healing at Arizona Memorial Service

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 Obama Urges a National Dialogue of Healing at Arizona Memorial Service

Published January 12, 2011

| FoxNews.com

President Obama on Wednesday honored the victims and heroes of the Arizona shooting rampage at a memorial service in Tucson and, acknowledging the national debate prompted by the tragedy, called for a political discourse that is less polarizing.
"But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized -- at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do -- it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds," he said during a 20-minute speech at the University of Arizona's football stadium, the McKale Memorial Center.
Nearly 30,000 people gathered  for the nighttime service in honor of the six people who died and the 14 who were wounded in Saturday's mass shooting that shook the nation.
Obama announced that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who is in critical condition, opened her eyes for the first time while he paid a visit to her at the hospital before his speech.
"She knows we are here and she knows we lover her and she knows that we will be rooting for her throughout what will be a difficult journey," he said to thunderous applause and a standing ovation.

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