How Obama can talk about tolerance without trivializing a tragedy

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From Texas to Arizona
How Obama can talk about tolerance without trivializing a tragedy.
By John Dickerson

President Obama and Michelle Obama during the moment of silence honoring the Tucson shooting victimsFor the second time in his tenure, President Obama will eulogize the victims of a shooting. In November 2009—it now seems another era—he gave a small masterpiece of a speech in honor of the 13 people killed when Army Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly opened fire at Fort Hood in Texas. When Obama speaks Wednesday night in Tucson, he will of course memorialize those killed and wounded when Jared Lee Loughner allegedly opened fire. He is at his best telling stories.

But Obama will also have to talk about tolerance. And he will have to find a way to talk about the need to civilize our debate when he is aligned with only one side in that debate.

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