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In his superb speech in Tucson Wednesday evening, Barack Obama did great service to the nation. He put to rest the libel that political incivility is responsible for the Tucson shootings. He did so with three words that he added to the written text: "It did not."

And he lifted the spirits not only of the inappropriately boisterous audience in the McKale Center but of people across America when he reported, after paying moving tribute to those who died, that "Gabby opened her eyes for the first time."

For even as we mourn those lost, we take comfort in knowing that the target of the attack has survived and that she seems to be recovering rapidly, even miraculously."

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Aizudin - Obama first came to the favorable attention of the nation at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 when he proclaimed that we were not red states and blue states but red, white and blue America. After months of partisan debate, in which he like others used the military metaphors common in our political vocabulary, he spoke in Tucson as the leader of one nation.

It will probably help him politically. But, more important, it will help the nation.