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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 1024744" data-attributes="member: 18225">Not quite, not going to party.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/obama-campaigns-in-vegas-after-tough-day/2012/09/12/5310f094-fd4a-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>&quot;Obama, visibly weary and seeming to struggle to display the usual energy&nbsp; and sharpness of his campaign appearances, opened with a description of&nbsp; the “tough day that we’ve had today.” With a crowd of more than 8,000&nbsp; at a Las Vegas convention center still screaming and cheering, Obama,&nbsp; wearing no jacket and his sleeves rolled up, held up his hands and paid&nbsp; tribute to the dead, who he said “were working to advance the interests&nbsp; and the values that we hold dear as Americans.&quot;“It’s a reminder that the freedoms we enjoy, sometimes even the freedoms&nbsp; we take for granted, they’re only sustained because there are people&nbsp; like those who were killed who are willing to stand up for those&nbsp; freedoms, who were willing to fight for those freedoms, in some cases to&nbsp; lay down their lives for those freedoms,” the president said. “So&nbsp; tonight, let’s think of them and thank them...”Is he campaigning?&nbsp; No Doubt.Is he &#039;partying&#039;?&nbsp; Doubtful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 1024744, member: 18225"] Not quite, not going to party. [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/obama-campaigns-in-vegas-after-tough-day/2012/09/12/5310f094-fd4a-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html"]LINK[/URL][I] "Obama, visibly weary and seeming to struggle to display the usual energy and sharpness of his campaign appearances, opened with a description of the “tough day that we’ve had today.” With a crowd of more than 8,000 at a Las Vegas convention center still screaming and cheering, Obama, wearing no jacket and his sleeves rolled up, held up his hands and paid tribute to the dead, who he said “were working to advance the interests and the values that we hold dear as Americans." “It’s a reminder that the freedoms we enjoy, sometimes even the freedoms we take for granted, they’re only sustained because there are people like those who were killed who are willing to stand up for those freedoms, who were willing to fight for those freedoms, in some cases to lay down their lives for those freedoms,” the president said. “So tonight, let’s think of them and thank them...”[/I] Is he campaigning? No Doubt. Is he 'partying'? Doubtful. [/QUOTE]

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