Rahm Emanuel

Three days later, and this is the first time we've had a domestic terrorism act like that, not going all the way back to the Palmer bombings that happened at the turn of the century.

And he gives his speech in Oklahoma City, drawing on his own depth and knowledge of the Bible in a church, and he talks about being with you as many tomorrows as it takes until Oklahoma City is back.

Now, pause.

Pause.

Back in 1994, nobody said, or 1995 when this happens, that he was going to a red state and a red city, et cetera.

We didn't think of the world that way.

But he didn't win Oklahoma, but he goes there and he talks in a way that a former governor from Arkansas grew up, that people in Oklahoma understood that he understood and knows how they lived their life, didn't talk down to him, talked at a level that they could hear the voice of their president in their moment of anguish.

as well as the country's moment of anguish.

President Obama at Emanuel Baptist Church in South Carolina with this horrible shooting and very memorably leads a congregation in a singing, I think it was Amazing Grace if I'm remembering it right.

Well, you remember it.

So see, it scored.

So both points in a low point for the country in a horrific event.

the presidents found what Teddy Roosevelt called the bully pulpit of the presidency.

I mean this seriously, but it's a criticism of our current president.

He's all bully with no pulpit.

He could never go to a church, and both of them in different venues, while they normally speak from the podium,

We're conversant at the pulpit.

And they're different places.

And you got to know the difference between the podium and the pulpit.

But yes, and being conversant with a spiritual sense, not just a legal or moral, but something that was that at that moment when America was torn through terrorism and a shooting at a church, found the spiritual connectivity that people were yearning for and reading that right and then communicating it and lifting people out of their despair.