Newsweek: Obama's Tears

[Jackeens]

Obama was not given to shows of emotion. But at the last debate he was asked an innocuous question about his New Year's resolution, and he launched into standard-issue boilerplate about being "a better father, better husband. And I want to remind myself constantly that this is not about me, ah, what I'm doing today. It's an enormous strain on the family … a-a-a-nd …" He paused, and for the briefest moment there was a hitch in his voice before he continued, "Y'know, yesterday I went and bought a Christmas tree with my girls, and we had about two hours before I had to fly back to Washington to vote …" Valerie Jarrett, the family friend who had become one of his closest political advisers, thought Obama was going to tear up. She had seen it before, at a book party for "The Audacity of Hope" in 2006, when Obama had started to say he was sorry to have been away from his family so much during his campaign for the Senate, and began crying so hard he couldn't go on. Obama was remarkably self-contained, but he was also palpably emotionally attached to his family. Jarrett knew that he had not been able to keep his promises to Michelle about getting home to see her and the kids, and that the strain was starting to show.


http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/11/05/the-best-of-newsweek-s-top-secret-election-project-vol-i.aspx

[1620rock]

1. Real family values.

[az chela]

2. Barack is such a great man.I hope he can be with Michelle

and the girls as much as he wants.He can take them with him when it is possible and I know how fast the time goes and they are a very close family so I really want them to be together as much as possible.Thanks to his grandma Barack really knows true family values and it is so obvious that his wife and kids are his life and I hope that he will take the time to be with them

[eleny]

3. Remember the pic of John-John under daddy Kennedy's Oval Office desk?

We might see a more grown up version of that very soon. :D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I suspect that he will be home more after he becomes President...

He will still travel and such, but most of the time, he'll be home at the White House...

How good that will be for all of them...

[tblue]

5. He is just so beautiful.

[byronius]

6. So many good stories about this guy.

The best for me is his help for the stranded Swedish woman, who didn't have the money to pay for her overlimit suitcase -- when he was a poor student, just starting law school.

Now PRESIDENT! So cool.

[Kitty Herder]

7. Damn it. Now I'm crying.

:cry:

[Jackeens]

8. Dry your tears! They'll see more of each other the next four years....

...than they did in the last eight!