WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and GOP rival Mitt Romney curtailed campaigning on Friday in the wake of the shooting massacre in Aurora, Colo. at a theater premiering "The Dark Knight Rises." "There are going to be other days for politics. This, I think, is a day for prayer and reflection," Obama said. Both men dropped partisan rhetoric in addressing the tragedy, and each spoke as a parent — Obama from Fort Myers, Fla., and Romney from Bow, New Hampshire. "What if Malia or Sasha had been at that theater," Obama said. "I stand before you today not as a man running for office but as a father and grandfather, a husband, an American," Romney said. The president ordered flags at the White...
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