Obama: Let us heal together

There is one thing among many that always impresses me about Americans and that is their resiliency. I was struck by that tenor while listening to President Barrack Obama speak tonight at a memorial service for those wounded or slain last week in Arizona,

He spoke without rancour but with compassion as he reached out across what has been an acrimonious political divide of late. He cautioned those on all sides that they must seek to heal and not to exacerbate. This is not a time for finger pointing - it is a time for consolation and care. It is a time to lay down the tools of the political battle and to embrace the means of reconciliation.

America may be somewhat diminished in the eyes of the world yet it remains the repository of dreams, a beacon of possibility for many in a world of deprivation and oppression.