Barack Obama's Tucson speech rose to the moment and transcended it | Jonathan Freedland

Throughout his presidency a doubt about Barack Obama has lingered, one that first surfaced during his campaign for the White House that began nearly four years ago. The fear was that – for all his oratorical brilliance – Obama somehow lacked empathy, that he was a slightly chilly, aloof figure, that he struggled to connect emotionally. We'll hear much less of that talk now. For the address he gave