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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPosted this to FB today, in response to accusations that the President's tears were "an act"
Last edited Wed Jan 6, 2016, 05:56 PM - Edit history (2)
Posted after a distant relative (among many other folks) made a comment that "He should get an Oscar for that performance." (The context was a post of mine in which I shared an exchange with another NY Times reader. That reader commented: "Can you imagine a JFK or FDR with tears streaming down their faces during a press conference?" My response: "Some of us find it refreshing to have a President unconstrained by the emotional dysfunctions of the privileged class of a bygone era!"Here is a video of the President's speech yesterday. If anybody can listen to it and still level an accusation that the President was "acting," then it says a whole lot more about the person making the accusation than it does about the President. And frankly, regardless of whether or not you agree with the President, if the thought of those 21 5- and 6-year-olds at Sandy Hook, along with the dozens and dozens of others whose live have been cut short in mass shooting after mass shooting, doesn't evoke a strong emotional response within you, then you seriously need to check your own humanity, or lack thereof!
safeinOhio
(32,527 posts)Home run.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)My short, smart-ass response is, "You think the tears are phony, okay. What do you think is the appropriate response to the bloody massacre of 28 people, including 20 grade schoolers?"
Bucky
(53,795 posts)This is how they want you to react
This is how THEY react
bulloney
(4,113 posts)and have an enabling "librul media" fan the flames of this hate and anger toward him.
I don't think I've ever seen this country so collectively obsessed in hate toward a person.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)global1
(25,167 posts)they stoop even further. It's hard to believe the hate that must be in some peoples heads to act this way.
This includes those talking heads one sees on Fox that spew this trash talk.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)from my NRA hate filled Rellie. You can not make this stuff up. BTW,told him he has only 12 months to empty his Hate Obama bucket.
dhill926
(16,234 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,207 posts)Pryderi
(6,772 posts)Let people see what bullets do to a 6 year old
Borchkins
(722 posts)B
alterfurz
(2,467 posts)"If you find yourself mocking anyone who cries over murdered children, it's Jesus's way of letting you know you're a sociopath."
markpkessinger
(8,381 posts)onecaliberal
(32,483 posts)these people are craven and evil.
BeyondGeography
(39,278 posts)We have too many soulless people in this country. Thank you for your FB post.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)barbtries
(28,702 posts)I don't believe for a minute that he was faking it and am glad I haven't seen that on my fab. Your post is very good.
H2O Man
(73,309 posts)While it comes as no surprise, even here on DU:GD there has been a splattering of anti-Obama nonsense concerning the President's speech. Among the silliest was an OP claiming it was merely theater. Yeah, right: it was to the exact degree that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was theater. Or Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet" was theater. Indeed, every good speech is a form of theater.
lobodons
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You gotta believe that President Obama has seen the pictures of these massacred little kids who many were riddled with 10+ bullets each that you and me have not. Just the thought of remembering looking at those pictures of the little kids riddled with bullets and blood would bring tears to anyone's eyes.
(Edited to say "many" were riddled. Original alluded to all were riddled with 10+)
Duval
(4,280 posts)very sad that "some" people find fault wherever they can. I can't imagine living life with no understanding or compassion. Sociopaths are not happy people.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)lobodons
(1,290 posts)I owed it to him as his mother, the good, the bad, the ugly
It is not up to me to say I am only going to look at you and deal with you when you are alive, that I am going to block out the reality of what you look like when you are dead. And as a little boy, you have to go in the ground. If I am going to shut my eyes to that I am not his mother. I had to bear it. I had to do it.
"But the reality of it was under the cloth he had covering his mouth there was no mouth left. His jaw was blown away."
The six-year-old boy who was shot not only in the face in his first-grade classroom, but an additional ten times as well.
From one of the Medical Examiner's: I only did seven of the autopsies, the victims I had ranged from three to 11 wounds apiece and I only saw two of them with close range shooting,
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/469181/noah-pozners-mom-describes-newtown-victims-body-and-why-we-should-all-listen/#ushyU5tTtG6y9zr0.99
markpkessinger
(8,381 posts). . . reading this, and remembering that it was President Obama, not any of these right-wing assholes who dare to question his sincerity, to whom the task fell of meeting with, and trying -- somehow -- -to find words of comfort for the parents of those kids. Many of those parents were in the room yesterday when he spoke. And that is what makes the cretins' comments all the more obscene!
Thanks for sharing that!.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)24/7 hating on Hillary or Bernie, I assume.
But don't worry!
It will only last for 8 years
Duval
(4,280 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)The perfect response. Tell them, "forget about the President and his reaction, what about YOUR response to those childrens deaths? Do you feel ANYTHING at all yourself?"
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)you should put a pot o' gold tot he right on the hillary sign so we can see what she's pulling to the right for
LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)Thats a good idea. Maybe a Wall St. logo or two.
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Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)and all the rightwing crap about how when "a man is really crying he wipe both eyes at the same time, not one at a time...that's how we know it was fake"
When you boss is an insane RW child all you can do is sit there an shut up. My annual review is due in the next two weeks
asjr
(10,479 posts)I used to have a boss like that.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,318 posts)are nothing more than soulless $hitbags who care nothing about their fellow human
beings and are only concerned with displaying their racism and fondness for
instruments of death.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I remember how that day smacked me hard (I have grade school aged grandchildren). If that day didn't change anything in this country, nothing will.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Duppers
(28,094 posts)for his many emotional sobs.
They are such mindless jerks, regurgitating anything and everything Fake news says.
markpkessinger
(8,381 posts)Duppers
(28,094 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)UtahLib
(3,179 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)markpkessinger
(8,381 posts)Duppers
(28,094 posts)Empathy, they don't know the meaning of the word.
lostnfound
(16,138 posts)..so many young men would go off to war and die over there.
She looked at me as if I was an alien and said something like, I'm not worried about it because my son will be in college, not fighting a war.
Heartless.
Stargazer99
(2,538 posts)to keep the children of the well to do from facing war's front lines and why do we put up with it?