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Thousands Of Casino Gamblers Miss The Obama Tucson Speech

Network television may have stopped for President Barack Obama's speech on Wednesday night, but other industries moved right along. Among them were casinos around the US that had thousands of gamblers playing slot machines and table games instead of watching the president's speech.

The speech seemed to target the idea that the tragedy that took place over the weekend in Arizona should not be a target for partisan nonsense. Instead, Obama spoke of how politicians should join together and honor the six Americans that died after the horrid shooting.

During the speech, over 15,000 in attendance looked on attentively. Many US politicians were on hand, and some have been Obama's harshest critics. The drama was high for millions of viewers that watched the speech, but gamblers were dealing with tensions of their own. In Florida, poker players were busy chasing a bad beat jackpot at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood.

Across the US, thousands of gamblers spent their Wednesday evenings at the casinos.

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Obama Tucson Speech; Powerful Words from a Friend

In political news, the Wednesday Obama Tucson speech was powerful, down to earth and also political, as he touted his vision of presidential leadership with a call to “make sense out of that which seems senseless” by elevating political agenda.

“When a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations – to try to impose some order on the chaos,” the President told the approximate 12,000 people in the arena as well as a crowd nearly as big who watched on TV monitors in overflow the street and outside area.

The Obama Speech was spoken to the city of Tucson, and to the United States of America, and as Time.com put it, not so much as our President tonight, but as a member of our family. The speech was in response to the recent shooting in Tuscon.

Read excerpts and more from CNN.com, FOXNEWS.com and Time.com.

Source: Politico.com and Time.com

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