Barack Obama
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Mr. Blow had a close-up of this on FB. So emotional...
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Charles M. Blow
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In an emotional and, at times, tear-filled address, President Obama on Tuesday vowed to do something about the plague of gun violence and flexed his muscle via executive powers in an effort to slow the flood of firearms sales and help keep weapons out of the hands of potential gunmen. People are dying and the constant excuses for inaction no longer do, no longer suffice, he said.
Pictured here, an emotional Obama pauses as he speaks about the youngest victims of the Sandy Hook shootings, Jan. 5, 2016, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/@apimages)
For the full story, "Obama: 'We are here to prevent the next mass shooting'" go to msnbc.com
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Everyday for the last 8 years President Obama wakes up to a personal threat assessment, can't go anywhere or do anything without a plan and security including his wife and children.
This is the price to pay for holding the highest office in the USA?
Sick and shameful.
To live with this - and then know now all children, parents, teachers - not just in the poor parts of town, but everywhere - live under these same conditions - and over last 7 years Congress and the Supreme Court shrug their shoulders and mutter nothing will work, nothing can be done - "We have a God-given Constitutional right to have guns!"
Those are tears of frustration, anger, compassion and empathy. We should all be in tears.
brer cat
(26,281 posts)he has met with the families to give them comfort. It has to take a huge toll, especially the Sandy Hook parents. He is a very strong person to do that...over and over and over.
yuiyoshida
(42,726 posts)They will call him weak, and will make fun of him for being a Cry baby liberal, and not a real man. That's cause many of them are Asses. They are ignorant and uneducated. They think their policies are strong, and bold, but its not. They are infantile, and I probably would call them Neanderthals...except that Neanderthals had FAR MORE COMMON SENSE THAN your average Republican idiot.
brer cat
(26,281 posts)that anything they say will bother him a whit. I have seen very few people as comfortable in their own skin as PBO. It was real, it was what was in his heart. That is all that matters.
yuiyoshida
(42,726 posts)I guess I am tired of their HATE of the man. They really do hate him, and will never give him any credit for anything. I am pretty sure most of it is racial, and they will never stop hating him. Life was so much better, before the days of Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh...sure there was hate there but you didn't have to hear it, day in and day out. If this country ever goes into free fall it will be because of backward thinking.. and the modern Bigotry that's in the underbelly of this Nation. Its a sad thing to think about.
gademocrat7
(11,167 posts)mountain grammy
(27,277 posts)gun sales are through the roof, gun makers are making record profits..
I weep because this is my country and I want to leave it.
SansACause
(520 posts)The only good news is that those sold guns are mostly going to people who already own guns.
Only about a fifth of the people in the US own a gun, the lowest percentage in history.
mountain grammy
(27,277 posts)My brother in law and nephews buy a new gun every time the President speaks. Sick!
eggplant
(3,984 posts)llmart
(16,331 posts)because I now have my first grandbaby and I can't for the life of me think what I would do if something like Sandy Hook ever happened to her. I also weep because nothing I have done has stopped this madness in our country and I want to do more, but in our country today money talks and buys politicians. Back in the year 2000 I went on the Million Mom March on our state's capitol and 16 years later, it's worse than ever.
I weep, too.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)All of them, to give a five minute speech on a mass casualty school shooting.
Now ask them how many times they want to give that speech before THEY do something!
Second ammendment my ass!
SansACause
(520 posts)What leader wouldn't do everything they could to stop that from continuing?
babylonsister
(171,611 posts)I can tell. The NRA's financial incentives are apparently more important.
Green Forest
(232 posts)I will miss him.
Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)One of the most thoughtful presidents in our countries history.
sheshe2
(87,522 posts)Ivan Kaputski
(528 posts)sheshe2
(87,522 posts)babylonsister
(171,611 posts)If not, I wonder what snaps he got. His humanity shines through.
sheshe2
(87,522 posts)It's almost painful to look at the raw emotion. He is such a good man, bsis.
ZM90
(706 posts)that the President of the United States has.
randys1
(16,286 posts)insisted no.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,443 posts)sheshe2
(87,522 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)that represents his heritage. A caring man. It looks like VP Biden is pretty close to tears himself.
llmart
(16,331 posts)to not cry when they remember that god awful picture of those little children. Unfortunately we have a lot of people in this country who worship at the altar of guns.
babylonsister
(171,611 posts)Fox host: President Obama put a raw onion in his podium so he could cry fake tears for kids killed by guns
llmart
(16,331 posts)I have never wasted any of my precious time on the jackasses on that network. Nothing they say has any credibility. I don't have enough years left on this earth to waste on lowlifes like them.
babylonsister
(171,611 posts)I read about it via my sister.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)to add another to their "collection" of lethal weapons without any regard to what their perverted obsession does to society.
babylonsister
(171,611 posts)has to wear on a person.
Warpy
(113,130 posts)They have to lose their own kids to realize how much it hurts, they're completely lacking in empathy.
Some days I wonder if they qualify as human, at all.
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)...as President. He has been relentless in doing what was right and/or necessary...even when it was unpopular. Even when it was too nuanced for some Americans to understand. Even when the very people he tried to help, blocked his efforts.
He has been an EXCELLENT President. I hope his great work will be recognized and valued in time.
babylonsister
(171,611 posts)he will go down in the history books in a positive light.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)Cha
(305,435 posts)Thank you so much for this, babylonsistah!
ladym55
(2,577 posts)What must it be like for him to have to console families devastated by gun violence over and over and over with no end in sight. I can no longer get my brain around our crazed adoration of guns. Other countries can watch the Die Hard movies without thinking they are documentaries.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)Makes no gawd damned sense! And that's done by so-called Americans on our own soil, and they don't even give damn!