Missing The Message

Posted by | January 13, 2011 00:28 | Filed under: Top Stories


Those who look for any reason to bash President Obama seem to have missed the message of his speech in Tucson.

TPMDC reports:

Some conservatives are upset over t-shirts bearing the logo “Together We Thrive: Tucson & America” that were handed out to attendees at tonight’s memorial service in the McKale Center on the campus of the University Of Arizona here… The University Of Arizona did not immediately respond to requests for more information on the shirts, which are drawing fire in the conservative twitter- and blogosphere tonight.

The shirts, of course, reflect the theme of unity emphasized at the event, at which President Obama said, “The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.”

But cynicism, it seems, is also a powerful force.

“I’m having a physical reaction to the T-shirts,” Amanda Carpenter, a speech writer for Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) tweeted tonight. “I’m tearing up. This feels wrong.”

Michelle Malkin had earlier raised a rukus about the event’s logo on her blog.

“Isn’t the churning of the instant messaging machine a bit, well, unseemly?” she wrote. “Can’t the Democrat political stage managers give it a break just once?”

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