[agiopwer]

The sad reality is that a man suffering from raged paranoid schizophrenia, who just happened to metaphor his angels v. demons split attendant to the illness with political terms rather than philosophical, religious, fantasy, etc. terms, committed a horrific violent act because of his illness.

There's nothing more to it than that as far as his reason for doing so: he was mentally ill, that is the only cause of this tragedy.

So when it comes to eulogies and the like, the only appropriate things to say are good things about the people who passed and maybe the importance of finding cures and treatments for mental illness to prevent such tragedies.

It is not appropriate to take any of the sick man's illness's angels v. demons metaphored terms and try to make sense of them ..

.. And it is certainly not appropriate to take any of the disease sufferer's metaphored terms and do anything in any way politically opportunist with them.

Knowing Obama as he is, any politician for that matter, especially in an underdog administration, presuming he would use this opportunity to make an egregious political perspective pander, preying on the grief of the families, etc., to make a vote-getting-attempt rhetorical statement .. I, too, refused to watch.

My understanding is that is just what he did.

I might have watched had a member of the deceaseds' family, friends, church, etc. been the one giving the presentation, but not a politician.

But family grief really shouldn't be aired nationally like this. And merely because a member of the government was attacked, I would argue does not warrant a national speech spotlight.

Other mass tragedies don't get this kind of response from The President .. and I don't think a dog and pony show is ever appropriate at these times.

The tragedy itself is sad enough.

But for politicians to try to pander votes from it all is disgusting.

And for people to use the sick man's metaphors against their political opponents is just that: sick.