That was my first thought when I watched some of Obama's speech last night, and that disgusting, unseemly, "memorial." I knew before watching that it was going to turn into the Wellstone Memorial, Part II, and it absolutely did. Obama made no effort to get the cheering crowd under control. Toward the end I was watching with genuine nausea, and I'm not kidding. I really felt a wave of nausea watching this terrible spectacle. No matter his words, Obama and that raucous, obviously partisan university crowd made this memorial service about him. It was revolting.
Plus 90% of his speech was incomprehensible word salad: "the past", the "present", "the future", "the past" (again), "oive up to this", "live up to that," "be the people we should be" (or words to that effect), yadda yadda yadda and blah blah blah. Except for his early, clear statement that no one but Loughner caused what happened, all in all what I saw was a revolting display of self-aggrandizement and a crass political pep-rally perversion of what should have been a solemn occasion. It was disgusting.
Edited for typos