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Joshua Dubois: What the President secretly did at Sandy Hook Elementary School
Below is an excerpt from The President’s Devotional by Joshua Dubois, the former head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He’s recounting events that occurred Sunday, December 16, 2012 — two days after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff members. Dubois had gotten word the day before that the President wanted to meet with the families of the victims:
I left early to help the advance team—the hardworking folks who handle logistics for every event—set things up, and I arrived at the local high school where the meetings and memorial service would take place. We prepared seven or eight classrooms for the families of the slain children and teachers, two or three families to a classroom, placing water and tissues and snacks in each one. Honestly, we didn’t know how to prepare; it was the best we could think of.
The families came in and gathered together, room by room. Many struggled to offer a weak smile when we whispered, “The president will be here soon.” A few were visibly angry—so understandable that it barely needs to be said—and were looking for someone, anyone, to blame. Mostly they sat in silence.
I went downstairs to greet President Obama when he arrived, and I provided an overview of the situation. “Two families per classroom . . . The first is . . . and their child was . . . The second is . . . and their child was . . . We’ll tell you the rest as you go.”
The president took a deep breath and steeled himself, and went into the first classroom. And what happened next I’ll never forget.
Person after person received an engulfing hug from our commander in chief. He’d say, “Tell me about your son. . . . Tell me about your daughter,” and then hold pictures of the lost beloved as their parents described favorite foods, television shows, and the sound of their laughter. For the younger siblings of those who had passed away—many of them two, three, or four years old, too young to understand it all—the president would grab them and toss them, laughing, up into the air, and then hand them a box of White House M&M’s, which were always kept close at hand. In each room, I saw his eyes water, but he did not break.
And then the entire scene would repeat—for hours. Over and over and over again, through well over a hundred relatives of the fallen, each one equally broken, wrecked by the loss. After each classroom, we would go back into those fluorescent hallways and walk through the names of the coming families, and then the president would dive back in, like a soldier returning to a tour of duty in a worthy but wearing war. We spent what felt like a lifetime in those classrooms, and every single person received the same tender treatment. The same hugs. The same looks, directly in their eyes. The same sincere offer of support and prayer.
The staff did the preparation work, but the comfort and healing were all on President Obama. I remember worrying about the toll it was taking on him. And of course, even a president’s comfort was woefully inadequate for these families in the face of this particularly unspeakable loss. But it became some small measure of love, on a weekend when evil reigned.
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From The President’s Devotional. Copyright 2013 Joshua Dubois.
Children waiting outside the school after the shooting. [photo: Michelle McLoughlin]
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Obama….the liberal president with the bleeding heart….what a faker.
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Lori, your level of sheer ignorance invites only sympathy for your severe mental incapacity.
I was there when the old GOP fought Social Security, Workman’s Comp, Unemployment Insurance and have continued fighting every social program since 1932. I saw Truman integrate the armed services in the Jim Crow era for most of the nation. Ike provide federal handouts to his golfing buddies –Dixon-Yates, a private barge channel up the Delaware river for a USS Steel plant — and the biggest of all, handing the keys to the U.S. treasury to Charlie Wilson, ACTIVE Chairman of the General Motors Corporation — and Secretary of Defense. (Who dumped 500,000 worthless GMC hydromatic truck transmissions on the military.) Nixon with his felony convicted VP Spiro Agnew — and every senior staff member of the Nixon White House and the Attorney General serving prison time for various crimes. As as a Southern Republican when there were rarely more than a dozen of us per county, I went to meet prospective candidate Thomas Dewey in Kansas City. Our state’s delegation left with the unanimous evaluation that Dewey was crooked. Nearly 50 years later came the news Dewey was basically a pawn of one NYC mob family. DubYah totally devoted himself to destroying U.S. and Global economy with his Gut Feeling. Meanwhile, Dick Cheney directed close to $1-TRILLION to his personal piggy bank — with his huge Halliburton stock holdings returning dividends to Cheney and his family. (Who still vocalize at full throat with their greed.)
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Thanks for the comments…Dan
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Dan – for some reason this site will not let me “Like” your comments, so…here is my “Like” and heartfelt thanks for your service to progressive consciousness in our country, in our world. March on brother and may we have more like you.
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Seek help. You have a hole in your soul. Read this article until you encounter your darkness and then sit with your shame. Get council, find a spiritual healer…. we need everyone we can get to stand against evil, but if you cannot, please find somewhere else to live.
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I hope one day you recover the humanity you seem to have lost.
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all this arguing omg …this is why we still ‘need’ goverments presidents and authority figures…we cannot be civil to each other and respect each other…a long road ahead to peace on earth and many do not want it being in love with the drama and their own opinions regardless of the pain and sorrow of others…the outer mirrors the inner world…so much cognitive dissonance …..
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A wonderful man, we in England have a very high opinion of him, and before l,m bombarded with” oh you don,t know what your talking about”‘ l have a right to my own opinion whether l,m English or American. You are sooo lucky to have this wonderful man in power. Of course he,s made mistakes, of course he can,t please everyone, he,s only human and we all make mistakes, but my God does he try hard to get it right. YES HE DOES!
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these comments show me why we still ‘need’ governments presidents and authorities in the world…we are incapable of reaching agreement and respect’ amongst ourselves…the inner mirrors the outer …..a long road ahead till peace on earth and many do not want it as they love the chaos, the drama …regardless of the pain and suffering of others….
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Thank you for sharing this story.
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Reblogged this on Thinking Outloud and commented:
I don’t know anyone who could share sorrow for hours and hours like our President did in Newton, Connecticut three years ago. What an amazingly loving and sacrificial gift.
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3 months after Sept 11 I drove to Ground Zero. 2 weeks after Sandy Brook, I went there. Rather different locations. I felt NY, thicker skinned. Both areas, I’ll just say were Ripped. I went to these places, for EACH soul, RIPPED from earth!!! And the Warriors who did the BEST, paying a price of their own. President Obama in my opinion SAVED America and the world. I respect that almost as many people fell the exact opposite. We are free.
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I live in CT he was there. Some people just like to be jerks about everything. If you don’t like Obama, fine, I get that. But to take away his presence and connection with those families is just adding insult to injury.
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This article can not true, it’s insane…
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Your racist hatred knows no bounds. As an original SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN, The President of the United States is MY President. True for FDR, True For Truman, True for Ike, True for Carter, True For Reagan, True For every president.
I admit personal embarrassment for the hidden corruption of the Ike years, for Thomas Dewey of NYC’s Gambino Family, for the Nixon White House and for George W. Bush, who carried this country into disaster. Wake up and look at facts. Barrack Obama lead this country and the world back from almost certain full economic depression. He had to get a war ravaged military out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Irag — because Bush signed a treaty with his puppet Iraqi governement that they could end U.S. military presence and they wanted us out. We had some soldiers who survived 14 deployments and our men and women suffered the highest percentage of amputations in history. We still have a few over there, some specialists fighting ISIS and support people in Afghanistan. Plus our aviators over Syrian and iraq. The entire region destabilized by Bush. This sitting president relies upon the knowledge, wisdom and experience of the military, diplomatic and economic specialists. Bush shot from the hip, strictly based upon his gut.
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Well I would say I am a Republican Democrat or Liberal Democrat. funny…huh? Or you can title me independent. I don’t believe in any political party. What I don’t like I will say “don’t like” what I like I will say “I like” not depend on political party, depend on myself. I am with Republican on gay marriage and christian belief and I am with Democrat on gun control. I don’t want to be a political slave…
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It’s true, we lived it. It’s sad we live in a world where you can’t even send your child to school without fear.
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????
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AND HE SURE DOES. POOR SOUL.
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This article cannot be true, as the so called president, could not stay off of a golf course that long. Besides the fact that he would have been in a big hurry to blame gun owners instead of his liberal policies and mental health.
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Unless you were there, the story is true.
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REALLY? I guess everything you read on the internet is Gospel truth huh?
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Only the stuff not found on FoxNews websites.
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NOT found on Faux Noos. Get real, the Murdochs own Faux. The Murdochs were caught and convicted for wholesale illegal wire taps. Poppa Murdoch is pure Australian sleaze. So much so, the Aussies prefer the stay on the other side of the planet.
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Yeah, your answer is not only thoughtless and inconsiderate, but also untrue.
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Check your facts John. Obama has taken the fewest number of off days compared to any President since Eisenhower. And not even 25% of the number of off days that GW Bush took. Heck in the middle of the Iraq War he took 35 straight days down at his ranch in Crawford. Can imagine the shrieking if Obama had taken 35 days in a row off in Hawaii?
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Bush and Reagan did WORKING visits to their places. They got work done and at a LOT cheaper expense than the Rock Star First Family renting entire floors of hotels and wasting all that AFOne gas.
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Then we are taking the word of someone else about the ‘fact’ that they were working vacations for Bush and Reagan, unless one of us was there. Isn’t it then also possible that Obama takes working vacations as well? The whole ‘Vacationer-in-Chief’ thing was bogus back when Bush was in office and the same is true for Obama. The results are what matter. Bush was given a surplus, invaded the wrong country – creating Isil/Isil in the process. Sadly the list of Bush ‘accomplishments goes on and on..
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You don’t think Obama works while he’s on vacation? Then go out into the middle of a highway to find a quarter to get yourself a clue, please.
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DubYah spending hours daily at the ranch on his bicycle — Did he have his secretary on the handlebars? Reagan didn’t do the work when he was in the White House. The staff supplied by his billionaire buddies did the work, set the policy nd made sure Reagan was rested for public performances. Still love the legend that he never work makeup so he would look young. Having been there for three weeks of his gubernatorial race, Ronnie could concentrate upon his pinochle game while the makeup was applied. Of course he was glancing over his script for the next appearance. But 30 minutes after the busses pulled out from the site where he spoke — Don’t ask him where he spoke, what he said and who he said it to.
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You confirm the hatred and ignorance coming from the right. Good job.
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You forgot racist, bigot and angry old men. Wow more brainwashing for you, you are not yet a liberal lemming.
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I got some swampland in Florida for sale if you get taken in by this ridiculous story…
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I’d buy it, but you’re not competent enough to sign the papers. They’d be tossed in a court of law as inadmissible due to ignorance on the sellers part.
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Do you know the families? I do … the story is true.
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Smith, you know the families of the children who were killed? Tell us about your experience, please.
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I know a family as well. My cousin’s daughter was murdered at Sandy Hook. I saw their pictures with the president in a classroom. He seemed very warm and personal. I saw some smiles from my cousin’s younger children. They’ve dealt with horrible conspiracy theorists for some time. There is no convincing those that don’t want to hear.
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Why can’t the story be true? Because you don’t want it to be?
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Reagan closed the mental health facilities. Oh, you forgot. Quit listening to paid liars on the radio.
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John, you diminish yourself with those comments. Try to open your heart and mind to new ideas and viewpoints.
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John: Shame on you and your unwillingness to believe that someone who is POTUS could do this. You are kidding yourself into believing the lies about him. There are more stories like this not publicized by the press. You have no idea what you are talking about. Golf ? Are you kidding – that was Eisenhower.
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John, seriously, you are watching way too much Fox “news”. I know at teacher at Sandy Hook. Obama was there. For hours and hours and hours. He was there. Turn off fox news. You’re not getting the truth. Your head is filled with sickness.
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Careful, that tin hat of yours is slipping. Oh look, UFOs! BTW, the use of the phrase “so called” is only used correctly before a noun or adjective that is describing someone falsely. For instance, “he is a so called expert”, to describe someone who claims expertise but has no skills or training. The president is the president. You might not like him but he is the president. But you’re really not into facts, are you…?
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I didn’t read this on the Internet, I lived it. It is true. Please try to be kinder and think of the families envolved that will be reading this. And the little angels that were lost.
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What foolish, disgusting remarks.For you naysayers, what’s it going to take for you to have even a shred of decency and concern for others? Your child’s head blown off? Your ignorance and heartless remarks are ludicrous. Yeah, I don’t give a shit about guns and never will. You’re a disgrace.
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As one who lived through FDR’s depression and WWII leadership, Harry Truman’s morning walks,Ike’s almost daily golf rounds at Burning Tree, in Colorado, at Gettysburg and Camp David, Reagan’s constant vacations at his “Gifted” Sasnta Barbara ranch, at San Clemente, Palm Springs and Camp David, Dubyah’s Crawford “Ranch” vacations, which occupied more than 25% of his terms — The constant lying and ranting from the racist bigots against President Obama only prove how intellectually limited and deranged these neo-cons are. These are the people who consider Donald Trump qualified for the White House — When his stated platform mirrors the original political platform for Hitler and the Nazi Party.
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So much hate, and so off-the-mark in content. Poor you. He plays less golf and takes fewer vacations than any President in history. You want w & dick back in there, no war they couldn’t profit from, no death toll too high? Did you EVER hear anyone calling or comforting the families of the fallen? I heard a lot about how our returning veterans are still having to fight for their rightful benefits, and any care they can get. The suicide rate from PTSD is still high. Bet these guys were your heroes, you nimwit. Be sure you vote for stump, so we can have another obtuse, uncaring, only-for-the-rich regime and the rest of us can rot for all he cares!!!!
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I feel sorry for you! You and your kind are what is causing the division in this Great Country. If you hate this much, your life must be miserable.
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It most certainly is true! My sister was there. She worked at Sandy Hook for 14 years and found great relief from his presence and compassion.
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In time, people forget your name, your title, the awards you won, the goals you have achieved; great people make history, but history is forgotten in time. One thing people never forget is how you made them feel. If you can provide comfort to someone who is hurting, or m&ms to a child who doesn’t understand (whose parents will be relieved for the distraction of a simple bag of candy); if you can make them feel they have been heard, and seen, and loved, that is something they will never forget. You want to stop gun violence, start there. Don’t start with laws; laws have loopholes, and people who can’t find loopholes just break them anyway. Start with acceptance, kindness, compassion, and caring. That’s what will beat this “war” for us. Everyone feels something- you have to reach out and care what they feel- and as a result you may help shape it.
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Advocate breaking through loopholes is merely executive orders, something very abused under Obama, by a different name. It is a slippery slope into Socialism and anarchy. I suggest you reconsider broadly what you seem to be calling for.
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Your ignorance of political schools is near complete. Executive orders are directly opposite Anarchy and Socialism. When a Tea Party congress blocked 26 desperately needed VA hospitals 41 times — and cut all increases for VA services budgets to obstruct President Obama — Then you NeoCons blame Obama for your heroes’ misdeeds. Yes failing to appropriate adequate funds for the huge numbers of the Bush/Cheney created veterans was criminal– But it was purely a GOP crime. President Obama, with a Democratic Congress more than doubled VA funding during his first two years. Increased 50% annually through 1912-13, VA funding would have almost covered the need.With DubYah, steadily increasing gas prices. With Obama, steadily decreasing gas prices. I filled up at $1.95 per gallon Monday!!!
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Death, sadness and frustration. People, Sometimes rude, angry or indignant people seeing only their own perspective on things who pop up in the most unusual places – such as comments under a beautiful article.
This president has my respect not only for the day he spent with the families of the victims of Sandy Hook, but having dealt with those who consistently tear down. I can only imagine the decisions a man of character must make. And no, not all are going to be ones he wants to make, but has to.
Thank you for sharing this very human moment Joshua Dubois.
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” a man of character”? Dont make me throw up.
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This sure don’t seem real to me either, where was all his photo Opps? he has never done anything that was not directly done with the Press in mind
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Please don’t compare that spineless coward to a soldier returning to a tour of duty in a worthy but wearing war. He’s nothing like the men and women who risk it all for this great nation. They fight for freedom and oneness and he dies nothing but cause more division and strife
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You are so off base. If you can’t say something positive, be quiet.
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Sorry, its called Freedom of Speech and not just for liberals.
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Indeed, it is freedom of speech. You get to say what you want to say. Then we get to tell you that you’re wrong.
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When JFK was killed it was no longer tradition for a President to meet and greet with the COMMON PEOPLE. From that time on they would just wave from the security of their car or a long distance. What brave men Obama and Biden are to get out of their secure confinement of the cars they rode in during the parade down Penn. Ave in Washington, D. C. Think about how that Coward acted that day walking the street and shaking hands of people who could kill the #1 and #2 men not just in the U. S. but the world. Yes that was a true act of a coward. G. W. Bush would have NEVER done that. That coward also often walks back to the W.H. from a local coffee shop or diner. People video him doing this because they are amazed to see the President on the street walking and greeting just plain ole common people. OMG what a coward he is and you are sooo strong and all you only call yourself (K) those are big balls you have.
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He does not cause the strife. It’s people like you who can’t/won’t/refuse to accept the good man that he is. He is actually risking his life for this nation considering all the false targeting you and your kind are doing to him. The fact that he is succeeding in spite of you and your kind should tell you something.
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You are missing the point. It’s not about who he is or isn’t. If he was able to provide any comfort to those affected by that horrific tragedy then he was a blessing thst day. Focus on those that lost their loved, remember them today, they are still in pain. I would have accepted comfort from any source available and been thankful for it and if you stop and think….so would you.
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This is nice and all but m&ms, support, and prayer have ceased to impact the gross amount of gun violence in the united states.
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That would be why the president – this same man – is acting on gun violence without congressional support. Because he has to.
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Thank you for writing this. Our poor president has been treated so horridly during his term and so undeservedly so. It’s nice to read a story like this amidst all the hatred and non-truths out there. This is the man I voted for, and I am proud. We will not see this kind of compassion in the next term, of that I’m certain.
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Bernie is a man of compassion. I think he could pick up where Obama left off in that arena.
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Please!! Spare me!! He is by far and measurable the worst president ever and deserves the pounding he gets! He deserves to be impeached! That won’t happen because of the moron behind him. He is the lesser of two evils.. bidden would be way worse!
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How did the kool-aid taste?
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OK, you have my attention. What measurements make him the worst president by far? Unemployment rate? No, that’s come way down. Stock market performance? No, the market has more than doubled. Combat deaths? No, that’s lower too. Budget deficit? No, that’s less than half what it was when he took office. Job creation? No, that’s way up from 2007 and 2008. Number of uninsured? No, that too is much lower. Gotta tell you, I am having trouble seeing what measurables you are using to justify your statement.
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What? Where did you get your numbers. I’m all for praising his compassion if there was proof of it, but you numbers are so far off base even Obama wouldn’t agree….lol.
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Obama’s unemployment rate is double digits. He has cooked the numbers since being in office. Under him they have dropped those underemployed and who stopped looking. So its not comparing apples to apples anymore. Hey look! Gasoline prices are ALMOST as low as what they were under Bush. ALMOST. More debt accumulated than ALL previous presidents!!!
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“Worst president” “deserves” to be impeached? Really? But let me guess, you’ll go ahead and vote for the Republicans who refused to do that (despite our President not committing any impeachable offenses). You can drop the mock outrage. REAL Americans aren’t buying it.
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What are you even talking about, except your ignorance? President Obama may not have been the best president ever — that’s for sure — but he’s far from the worse.
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Show me factual proof of why he is the worst President. Opinions are not facts.
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Having lived through every year of FDR’s four-term presidency in a southern Republican home, and along with being politically active, along with publishing community newspapers in conservative rural communities — I find comments of people like “Dan” posted Dec. 14 to be so stupid and ignorant [Lacking in knowledge] as to deserve nothing but contempt. Makes me consider discarding the name I have borne proudly for 85 years. I will guarantee I have worked on more GOP state and national election campaigns for more elections than you will ever vote in. Barack Obama and Joe Biden saved this nation from total economic collapse and a depression far worse than the Hoover Depression which lasted from October, 1929 through 1941 for Urban America and through 1989 for the rural regions. During the Hoover depression nearly every U.S. citizen knew a relative with a farm where they could go for the warmer months, possibly live in a tent or a barn, or pallets on the floors — work in the fields, grow expanded gardens, help care for livestock– and have food. Today, less than 2% of U.S. citizens work and live on the land and their operations are highly mechanized, requiring lengthy training and experience to operate the equipment. Few have gardens. Except for being saved from an all-consuming DEPRESSION, 1931 to 1941 would have seemed the good old days.
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you are very sad and hateful. President Obama is 500 times better that Bush (both of them). Get over you prejudice and hate. Face facts.
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Your problem is the same as for 99% of the racist bigots who will hate President Obama simply because he is deemed black. Bush lost 5-million private sector jobs in 2008. Obama’s time has seen more than 10-Million private sector jobs created, along with a serious reduction in the federal payroll and deficit. Bush exploded the deficit. Obama has reduced the deficit more than 80%, steadily cutting 10% annually. Bush totally failed with Katrina Relief — IN EVERY WAY! Bush left office with this nation’s and the global economy heading straight downhill in total collapse. TARP ONE had failed, because there were no restriction or requirements for using TARP ONE funds. [One bank’s executive committee voted themselves their bank’s entire $13-Million TARP bailout, then declared bankruptcy. And under TARP ONE it was legal. Stockholders and depositors were the losers. President Obama’s TARP TWO not only saved the Auto Industry, but squared away the banks, because controls were placed on use of the TARP TWO money. Bush — the Dow Jones was under 8,000. Obama — the Dow Jones has stabilized between 17,000 and 20,000. Obama has organized the entire Arab world to provide ground forces to defeat ISIS, with U.S. training cadre. This is not a Bush Lone Ranger operation, even though ISIS is born out of Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq. By the way, are you refusing to buy gas for your vehicles now that the price is down to less than $2.00 per gallon?
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OMG, are there STILL people out there like YOU? SO SAD.
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Hey, folks – dear hearts and gentle people, this is about Obama’s humanity, not his policies. Can’t we give the guy that much?
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Well if only he WAS human…
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You have commented on almost every comment on this article attacking liberals and telling everyone your opinion, but this shows exactly why you are the person you are describing. You lack the humanity and the compassion to see what the purpose of this article is and instead will take any chance you get to attack a man based on your personal, ignorant opinion. This article is to show how the president, of the country you are apparently a patriot of, helped families who suffered a great deal of loss. Regardless of your antiquated beliefs, these families deserved compassion, and the fact that the man you so vehemently attack gave it to them while you are unwilling to even acknowledge the true purpose of this article shows that you are inhuman. I do not care about your political beliefs, before you go calling me some worthless liberal, but it is so infuriating to see that you have so much hatred for a man you know very little about that you cannot show even a sliver of compassion for the families. Stop commenting. Stop hurting people because you are unhappy with something completely unrelated. Just stop treating people terribly because you are unable to look past your own personal gain.
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You are invited to go back and read my responses to the neo-con haters of our president. I am copying two below for your edification. Start reading and stop the knee jerk misreading.
“As one who lived through FDR’s depression and WWII leadership, Harry Truman’s morning walks,Ike’s almost daily golf rounds at Burning Tree, in Colorado, at Gettysburg and Camp David, Reagan’s constant vacations at his “Gifted” Sasnta Barbara ranch, at San Clemente, Palm Springs and Camp David, Dubyah’s Crawford “Ranch” vacations, which occupied more than 25% of his terms — The constant lying and ranting from the racist bigots against President Obama only prove how intellectually limited and deranged these neo-cons are. These are the people who consider Donald Trump qualified for the White House — When his stated platform mirrors the original political platform for Hitler and the Nazi Party.”
Your problem is the same as for 99% of the racist bigots who will hate President Obama simply because he is deemed black. Bush lost 5-million private sector jobs in 2008. Obama’s time has seen more than 10-Million private sector jobs created, along with a serious reduction in the federal payroll and deficit. Bush exploded the deficit. Obama has reduced the deficit more than 80%, steadily cutting 10% annually. Bush totally failed with Katrina Relief — IN EVERY WAY! Bush left office with this nation’s and the global economy heading straight downhill in total collapse. TARP ONE had failed, because there were no restriction or requirements for using TARP ONE funds. [One bank’s executive committee voted themselves their bank’s entire $13-Million TARP bailout, then declared bankruptcy. And under TARP ONE it was legal. Stockholders and depositors were the losers. President Obama’s TARP TWO not only saved the Auto Industry, but squared away the banks, because controls were placed on use of the TARP TWO money. Bush — the Dow Jones was under 8,000. Obama — the Dow Jones has stabilized between 17,000 and 20,000. Obama has organized the entire Arab world to provide ground forces to defeat ISIS, with U.S. training cadre. This is not a Bush Lone Ranger operation, even though ISIS is born out of Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq. By the way, are you refusing to buy gas for your vehicles now that the price is down to less than $2.00 per gallon?
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This is a very beautiful essay. We all need someone to be the calm, guiding us through the storm. Regardless of politics, he gave families support the day they needed it most.
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Never ceases to amaze me just how fast the Anti-Obamaists show up to *any* article about *any* good thing he did. It’s like they are terrified to admit he’s a decent person.
I mean, look at this- it is an article about a human being individually providing support and comfort to other human beings who’ve just gone through a horrible tragedy. If it was *any other* person, the comments section would be full of praise for compassion and caring.
But because it’s *Obama*, the comments are full of rageful vitriol and namecalling, all ranting impotently about the ‘worst president ever’.
It is really very sad. They are so attached to their hate and anger and bitterness, that they have to be angry about it on a story about being nice to people who’s children were gunned down by a madman.
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Decent person? He HATES America. The world laughs at his incompetence. The economy is the slowest recovery in recent history. There you go with the H word. Don’t liberals KNOW any other words?
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Have you ever left the South? I doubt you know anything about what the world think of President Obama.
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As a European who travels a lot I can state that at least in “my world” everyone considers Obama a complete relief after Bush and is astounded at the absurdity of the Republican Americans to think that more guns make your world safer…
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Dealing in international business for many years, YES I know the respect the rest of the world has for President Obama. It is the fact that he recognizes the rights of other peoples and nations, in all respects– which makes him a traitor to the right wing Neo Cons in this country. Suggest you go back and read my comments again.December 16, 2015
You are invited to go back and read my responses to the neo-con haters of our president. I am copying two below for your edification. Start reading and stop the knee jerk misreading.
“As one who lived through FDR’s depression and WWII leadership, Harry Truman’s morning walks,Ike’s almost daily golf rounds at Burning Tree, in Colorado, at Gettysburg and Camp David, Reagan’s constant vacations at his “Gifted” Sasnta Barbara ranch, at San Clemente, Palm Springs and Camp David, Dubyah’s Crawford “Ranch” vacations, which occupied more than 25% of his terms — The constant lying and ranting from the racist bigots against President Obama only prove how intellectually limited and deranged these neo-cons are. These are the people who consider Donald Trump qualified for the White House — When his stated platform mirrors the original political platform for Hitler and the Nazi Party.”
Your problem is the same as for 99% of the racist bigots who will hate President Obama simply because he is deemed black. Bush lost 5-million private sector jobs in 2008. Obama’s time has seen more than 10-Million private sector jobs created, along with a serious reduction in the federal payroll and deficit. Bush exploded the deficit. Obama has reduced the deficit more than 80%, steadily cutting 10% annually. Bush totally failed with Katrina Relief — IN EVERY WAY! Bush left office with this nation’s and the global economy heading straight downhill in total collapse. TARP ONE had failed, because there were no restriction or requirements for using TARP ONE funds. [One bank’s executive committee voted themselves their bank’s entire $13-Million TARP bailout, then declared bankruptcy. And under TARP ONE it was legal. Stockholders and depositors were the losers. President Obama’s TARP TWO not only saved the Auto Industry, but squared away the banks, because controls were placed on use of the TARP TWO money. Bush — the Dow Jones was under 8,000. Obama — the Dow Jones has stabilized between 17,000 and 20,000. Obama has organized the entire Arab world to provide ground forces to defeat ISIS, with U.S. training cadre. This is not a Bush Lone Ranger operation, even though ISIS is born out of Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq. By the way, are you refusing to buy gas for your vehicles now that the price is down to less than $2.00 per gallon?
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Well said C.Eleri Hamilton!! That is why they are called trolls. They troll the internet for anything positive about the president and then spend hours of their life just spewing negativity. I can’t think of anything more sick or unpatriotic then doing this on an article about one of the saddest events in U.S. history…a school full of babies gunned down. No matter what you feel about our commander in chiefs policies, this behavior by the trolls is a new low.
Then someone calling themselves Southern Patriot jumping all over the hate word. I’m curious SP, do you actually own a passport since you seem to think you know what the world thinks. I travel the globe for work and people in all countries I go to actually love our president and talk about how lucky we are compared to the Bush years and how thankful they are we elected him. Canada, South America, Europe, Australia, Singapore, Japan… I’ve heard it everywhere. I feel sorry for you SP that you are so filled with ignorance, hate and blindness that you cannot see how lucky you are that our country has had such a great president that the American dollar is the strongest than its been in the last 15 years and we have thousands of new jobs each month. Its a great time to have a passport and travel since our dollar is so strong…you should try it some day.
Maybe sell your computer and buy a plan ticket?
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Look folks,
trying to get people to say that Barack Obama has been, overall, a good president is like trying to get White people to admit that Race is still an issue in this country.
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Ok, we’ll bite. He is a good president and race is still an issue. Oh look, We just found 150,000,000 people who said the same thing. Putz.
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A better than good President.
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I’ve been saying it all along ado let’s not judge all white people the same way whites shouldn’t be judging blacks
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There are many reasons why I’m glad Barack Obama is our president…this is just one of them. http://mengecilkanperutbuncit.net/inulpoker-net-agen-poker-online-dan-bandar-ceme-online-terbaik-terpercaya/
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There are many reasons why I’m glad Barack Obama is our president…this is just one of them.
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Good Lord… you are delusional. You are a lap dog for the most inept, divisive president of the last 100 years. Every president has these types of private conversations. Obama is a joke. A pure political animal who only does what he has to to get the kiss-ass media to follow him around, salivating at the thought of just seeing him.
When you come out of your coma, take a long, hard look around at the damage this cretin has created in seven years. The health care debacle, the lies about his administration and their involvement in any number of scandals, the national debt, the number of people on food stamps at an all time high, the highest rate of poverty in 50 years. an ACTUAL unemployment rate of close to 10%. You are glad he is president? Good God. There are none so blind as those who will not see. Keep drinking the Kool-Aid, kiddo.
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and you can keep watching Fox News and following Donald Trump both have given you your talking points on what to say and how to say it… really sad.
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Obama has set race relations BACK fifty years! You must be proud!
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No boo. People like you are setting race relations back more than 50 years and blaming it on President Obama. You just can’t help yourself and you’ll always be this way until the day you meet your maker and justify why you should get into heaven.
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Nothing brings people together like grade-school-level name calling.
Congrats, “kiddo”.
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Gee wynn, if Obama was white, you’d probably think the world of him and if he was white and a greedy, anti-christian loudmouth like most of the twits on the republican clown bus, why you’d probably…. oh, I forgot, if he was one of those, he wouldn’t even give a rats ass about those kids murder and the anguish of their families!
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That’s not true. He would–sure as shit–be “praying for them”. Bless their hearts.
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He is half-white — why do people only talk about him as black?
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I believe Mr. Obama is half black — why doesn’t anyone remember that he’s half white also?
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You failed to mention his extra-judicial executions of Americans, and the terrorist act of sending missiles on unexpecting civilians and the murder of innocent men, women, and children by those missiles and which murders are simply written off as “collateral damage” and forgotten by the media and our President!
This writer, and his followers, ARE delusional. You are right. Jay Warren Clark
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I don’t have any sourcing, but I would think that these deaths would be happening at a lower rate now than they were back in 2008 when we had two full blown wars going on. As usual when it comes to Obama’s years in office, not perfect, but a whole lot better than when he was inaugurated.
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I don’t know where you get your information, but Obama has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as the best president on economics ever, he has been awarded 2 Nobel Prizes, and is generally recognized by world leaders as a great president. The health care “debacle” has insured that half a million people in my state alone now have access to health care. There have been no scandals, even the republicans admit that the Benghazi event was not a scandal, but a way to try to take H. Clinton down. You are a victim of brainwashing by right wing media. Obama has flaws; he has allowed the NSA to spy on America. But so has every other president we have had. Who wants to break the trend of trying to keep us safe? Certainly, you are the blind one here. Try some objective news, as you are too far from center to be rational.
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Drink the koolaid much? You sound like a propaganda machine. None of what you stated is even remotely honorable. The Nobel Peace Prize is now a huge joke. Obama knows NOTHING about economics. Any upturn is a lag effect from Bush. Benghazi sure is a scandal and Billary is even more corrupt than Obama, if that’s possible. Wake up lady and smell the coffee before America is gone!
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Upturn from Bush? Are you completely insane or suffering from dementia? When the last Bush was in the White House, even though he had a Republican House and Senate for 6 of his 8 years, he still managed to leave office with the nation facing:
800,000 Americans losing their jobs EVERY MONTH.
An apocalyptic mortgage meltdown.
A stock market collapse wiping out the life savings of millions of American families.
An auto industry on the verge of collapse, threatening an additional 1.2 million jobs.
Banks failing in record numbers.
Two wars being fought on a Chinese credit card costing american taxpayers $4 trillion.
A $700 billion bailout of Wall Street criminals to avert another Great Depression.
And a world economy that shrank by a staggering $70 trillion in just 6 months
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PREACH!
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It’s funny that the “upturns” are the lag of Bush’s great recession, but the unemployment is the result of Obama’s policies.
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all economic consequences from a president in office are not felt until at least 10 years after their terms in office.
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So, we can thank Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter for most of the positive economics that we experienced during the Reagan years? Interesting thesis.
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“Any upturn is a lag effect from Bush. ” This actually made me laugh out loud. I did not know this was a thing – to credit anything good to a “lag effect from Bush”. This sort of vitriolic anti-Obama nonsense pervades the right wing blogosphere. Most of it is based in a deeply rooted racism, and is fueled by the constant drivel on Fox news. I could cite numbers to you, but numbers, indeed reality itself, means little to your sort. Wow.
“Any upturn is a lag effect from Bush.”
Just wow. This said about one of the worst presidents in our history. If he’d been President way back when he would have invaded Canada yelling “Remember the Alamo!” Good grief.
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So you’re saying that George W Bush gets the credit for the recovery? And you’re accusing someone else of drinking kool aid?
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Do you even know how to make a point or argument without resorting to personal attacks? Even if you were making valid points with actual evidence, your heavy reliance upon personal attacks makes you come across as extremely weak. Certain politicians would do well to remember that, as well.
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Just who is dillusional? Anyone who claims they know it all, knows nothing.
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Wow! You have so much HATE in you, it shows. You can’t be the slight bit positive in anything that you’ve said. All the millions & millions & millions of people who voted for him & then re-elected him all are wrong, huh? & YOU are correct. It’s a good thing they don’t elect for third terms anymore. You’d be devastated. From the choices we had, who could’ve done better? I wonder if you even voted. I guess if you did, this time you’d vote for Trump, huh? May someone please open your eyes. I don’t think God wants THAT job. It may be his first failure, for such a hateful person. Oh, Well, YOU have a nicer day, huh? Peace.
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Really wishing there was a dislike button.
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Wynn Hollingwood…why would you even bother to put out a comment like this to taint such a lovely article, and one that is extremely sensitive. It was mean spirited, and divisive. Well, I guess if that shoe fits, then you must wear it.
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Wynn Hollyingwood is what we lovingly consider a troll…And for their own protection and for ours we have decided it’s best not to feed the trolls…It seems to make the angrier and even more barbaric…It seems to turn them into very angry and grouchy old white men! And then we have the likes of many many Donald Trumps running around…This is a lovely article and very heartwarming and I will beat everyone to the punch and admit I probably didn’t do it a lot of favors with my decidedly negative description of Trolls…I do however believe it had to be done…If said trolls take offense to our brand of articles then just find other media sources to get you info…Sincerely and Respectfully, Me
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Gueneviere15, as an old angry white man, I have to take offense at your description of us as “trolls.” I prefer to think of myself as wise and somewhat sexy… like Gandalf, say.
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If you could find a better Republican or POTUS, you would have elected him by now.
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Wait til Nov 2016 bubba.
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Hopefully, one day you can leave this country, experience how others in this world survive, and gain an ounce of perspective of how lucky you are to have this place to call home. And perhaps even appreciate what our leaders do day in and out to help. You trivialize based upon ignorance and not understanding or compassion. Soften your heart and put others first.
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Ah Fox news overload I see
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My city and my state looks the way it does because of my Republican governor and republican legislators preying on the poor and middle-class. STOP BLAMING OBAMA. WE ARE NOT STUPID.
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You seem to know it all, I wonder what things would look like with you in charge of the country.
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and what has the repuglican house done to help improve the country…… NOTHING!!!!
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They DID vote to get rid of a tax on the very wealthy. . .
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/16/estate-tax-house_n_7079744.html
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You need to stop watching Fox News so you will know the facts. Good heavens Wynn Hollingshead you do a lot of spouting with no facts or specifics. Tell us specifically what lies you are talking about, tell us specifically about how your wife/sister is worse off on Obama care than when she had nothing! Tell us where you get your 10% number that even GOP leaders have acknowledged is considerably lower! Then maybe we can have an intelligent conversation (if you stop listening to Fox News for 30 days).
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How dare you use this article as a push for anti Obama agenda! Kids and teachers died, as a member of that if this community we carry this with us all the time. He came to comfort the families and yes he isn’t the first president to do so but I wish he was the last. If you do not have anything positive to add to this article then don’t say anything. I don’t care if you like the president or not, it is about the kids and teachers who were lost and the family’s who were left in the wake of this tragedy! I hope and pray you never have to go through something like this. You are free to voice your political opinions but try to refrain from using someone’s tragedy to do so. You’re sick if you think it’s okay.
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I too am glad he is President. You were probably among the loonies who started blaming the economy on Obama days before he was inaugurated. Fortunately, he will go down as a good President by the historians who have now concluded that Bush was the worst President in history. Its hard to step into the shoes of a President that did the amount of destruction world wide that Bush did. Thank God for a wise man in the White House. And God, while you are at it, take pity on this Wynn Hollingshead.
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You mean the health care debacle that saw the number of uninsured cut in half? That debacle? The annual deficit that has shrunk by 65%? Maybe you can tell us, what was the ACTUAL unemployment rate on January 10, 2009 when we were losing 750,000 jobs PER MONTH vs the 200,000 that we are creating now?
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Seems like you’ve drank ALL the Kool-Aid. Name a better President.
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Backup your OPINIONS with facts – facts from reliable primary sources not what you hear on Fox News or biased conservative talk shows. You are what I would call a “Rush Limbaugh” expert. You vomit up what he or any other so called expert has fed you. Just a little reminder- President Obama stepped into the disaster created by George W. Bush and almost everything he has tried to do to repair the damage has been thwarted – preventing someone from accomplishing something – by the Republican Congress. You are probably one of those uneducated “haters” who support Trump.
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President Obama is a good great man he is always working to do many things for the people and that is what GOOD government is meant to do, many of the the help programs for the poor and disabled have been denied by head of states have refused to take advantage all because they do not like the President its a terrible thing,i do come from the UK and have a sister in law she is not poor but is a senior she works a job in at a bar in a work mans club she has had cancer for years and she told me that when they had a bad winters she had a check for her heating bill she did not ask for it I guess if they have money left over they give it to the people just saying .part of our government do not believe in this kind of thing .and of course she has govement medical over here its like every year you have this loads and loads of paper work to see what you are entitled to papers to social security and medicare just a big pain and to be honest I am scared that I might get a bill that I cant afford to pay and I do not go to the doctor often its all a big shame.
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The cost of being President of the United States during this troubling times:
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So sorry. Meant to post to my other site: http://www.FlairCreativ.com
Beautiful essay. Incredible strength.
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It took a long time to ban guns in the UK and the mass shootings stopped immediately. There are still terrorist attacks, but that is a different problem. Gun control is an obvious and immediately effective solution to America’s sickness. All of those young people who are killed in the student shootings. It is so dreadfully sad and the gun lobby seems to think it is not their fault. As for voting for Trump – you are fucking insane! It is like voting for Hitler. You might be better moving to North Korea where government by the insane is the normal way.
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That’s actually false – the UK has had four mass shootings in the 20th and 21st centuries, one of which occurred *after* the ban was put in place. They have never a problem here, the system we had, of strict controls and restrictions worked well – 3 shootings in 3 decades is a good track record.
The ban was sold to us as a solution to a problem (that didn’t exist) and it has failed utterly in its intended purpose. The system we had before worked well and needs to be reintroduced, the failed ban lifted.
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You have picked on a shotgun shooting. Shotguns are not banned because farmers etc. need them. The ban did work. Virtually all shootings since have been gang or criminal related. Actually your post does not make sense. What the hell is your point? Can’t you construct a meaningful sentence?
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I think she is saying gun control worked, banning them did not.
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No. Gun control was better than what you have in the US, but still allowed mass shootings with hand guns. Assault rifles have always been banned in the UK. When Dunblane happened there was a total ban on hand guns, but farmers, some hunting clubs and pest controllers could keep rifles and shotguns. There was a shotgun massacre a few years back and shotgun controls have also been tightened. Nothing since except a few criminals and the odd gang killing, but if they want to kill each other that’s fine with me.
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Come on Carl, your profession of false is wayyyyyy over the top! Considering the statics you yourself provided, Angela’s statement is for all practical purpose “true”. Four mass shooting within the 20th and 21st Centuries should be looked at as the ban in the UK being highly successful. Lighten up Carl.
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Rubbish that never happened I am British stop the lies or name the dates and places .and all year there have been 8 deaths in Britain.
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Seriously four shootings. ..and this is somehow a credible argument? In Chicago alone mass killings in a month would equate to this statistic. I’m beyond ready for this to end. I don’t understand the push back? Reasonable people unite . There is no real vigilante savior that is a historical and cinematic myth!
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I live in Chicago and there are more than 8 deaths from gun violence in one week here! in 2012 we were the murder capital of the country, we are now referred to as Chiraq because of 2012! 8 deaths in a couple decades? consider that a blessing!
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False – the UK gun ban has been a failure. It is proof that total bans do not work. First, you need to know this – the UK has never had a serious problem with mass shootings (and gun crime in general). We have had 4 mass shootings in almost 5 decades. One of these took place after the ban came into effect.
From this we see two obvious things – one, that the ban did not stop the mass shooting in Cumbria. It has therefore failed in its stated purpose. Two, 3 mass shootings in 3 decades shows that the system we had worked well. Guns were strictly regulated – by law, anyone with firearms had to keep them in a secure gun safe. All guns were registered to the owner. A license required.
The system worked well, but not perfectly. All the ban has done is punish innocent people and not prevented the thing it was supposed to stop.
So please, don’t cite us as we example when you don’t understand the situation here.
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Carl, you stated, “We have had 4 mass shootings in almost 5 decades. One of these took place after the ban came into effect.”
So, statistically 3/4 of the mass shootings (75%) occurred before the ban and 1/4 (25%) occurred after. That would be a reduction in mass shootings of 50%. How exactly is that unsuccessful?
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the ban hasn’t been in effect as long as it wasn’t. …do you even math?
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Carl, you say that 3 mass shootings in 30 years shows the one system worked, but the one mass shooting since the total ban went into effect is proof of failure? Please remember the context of this thread. In the US, we have expanded gun rights massively and have many mass shootings. We’re not talking about the damage a shotgun or a handgun can do, but assault weapons that are designed to kill a lot of people and are so prolific in the US these days.
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Well stated on both points Angela. This fascination with instruments of death is insane and immoral. Allen
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Agree
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I understand what you are saying, but you do not live in America. It’s one thing to read all the stories, it’s another to live it.
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What makes you think that those who are determined to do harm to those who obey the laws will NOT get THEIR hands on a gun…?…the saying, I lock the doors to my home to keep the bad guys out…..NOT….it just helps to keep the good guys honest…pull your head out of the darkest hole ever and smell what you’re saying….crap!…a gun hurts NO BODY till someone picks it up and intends to do harm with it…when was the last time you saw someone become addicted to drugs just by LOOKING at it?…ONLY once they touch it and make that conscious decision to use it do they become a drug addict or a cold blooded killer….
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You just can’t see the nonsense in your argument, can you? The WHOLE POINT is that it is almost impossible to get hold of a gun over here because of gun laws. THAT means that impulse killings like your continual school shootings don’t happen because people come to their senses. If a gun is immediately available then impulse killings are much more likely. If you can’t see the logic in that then there really is no hope for you.
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Barack Obama is a superior human being. He proves it every day of his life.
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He is an average human being, and a totally inferior commander in chief…
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You’re drinking the right wing kool-aid Howard. Try getting your news from somewhere besides Faux News.
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No, here I’m going to agree. President Obama is a good man, certainly an above average human being with a lot of accomplishments, but he’s been a disappointing (but not terrible) president.
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This is a story about the President comforting those who have suffered a loss. It sounds to me like he did a superb job.
Although I disagree with your assessment of his duties as COC, I am curious why you think it’s important for you to criticize him for duties in another part of his job? How do you think you would measure up to either task – COC or comforting the bereaved?
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Very moving narration. I hope, at least this event remains, for the families, one small candle in an otherwise all enveloping, darkness. For all we may agree or disagree politically with any politician over policy, President Obama strikes me as a man of singular stature and all the more so, for these absolutely correct individual expressions of compassion.
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I love our President Obama.
When this horrible event happened, I cried for each child, for weeks I was in shock, angry & full of grief for these innocent babies & the teachers.
I was ridiculed, admonished & some on Facebook even told me to stop talking about these children on Facebook as they feared their guns would be taken away.
I very often think about these beautiful children, I will never forget them.
Thank you President Obama.
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I’m glad you love him. But, please remember. Many Presidents have been put in a situation where they must provide emotional and spiritual support to loved ones whom have been hurt, murdered, attacked. I agree it is probably one of the most difficult jobs of being President.
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but all presidents have not shown true compassion. other’s have spoken out but made no quiet gesture unless it was publicized.they may have been put in that position but have no rose to it. can we just just appreciate that he did this?. thanks for sharing this..
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Craig Fisher 41 says on his profile:
“I’m 46 on disability I have type 1 diabetes nerve damage in both feet, calves, bladder, fingers and ear drums. I have had 4 hip replacements, one of them dislocated twice, they tore the meniscus in my knee putting me back together. I take 17 different medications a day. From walking with a limp for so many years, I now have L1 threw 4 in my back messed up and arthritic ”
Good thing you distrust the government so much, the government that most likely helps you with Medicaid, SSDI, etc.
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Great point Carl Fisher. American people are like immature children incapable of thinking for themselves. So, they turn to others (talk radio) to do the thinking for them and are led to believe government is the source of all things evil. I often feel that our system is too good for the pathetic citizenry who are too knowledgeable about it to appreciate it.
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Don’t feed the Lila Brown or Craig Fisher trolls too much, folks.
That said, Dear Leader COULD do more by executive order than he has. And, the sooner he does it, the longer it might stick no matter the next president.
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I want to see all Executive orders rescinded. No president shwould make laws by fiat!
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George Washington made the first executive order. How far back you want to go? And, both Roosevelts issued far more than either Obama or Bush:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_executive_orders
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I’m so glad that he took this tragedy and used it to form gun control legislation so that events like this would never happen again. Oh, wait….
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He wants to and can’t get anywhere with this Republican controlled Congress. Oh wait… Right that’s the truth.
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Yeah… like truth matters to the gun lovers.
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you understand congress has to pass it, right?
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Did you write your Congressional reps urging them to support such legislation? Of course, if they were Republicans, they were more interested in pleasing the NRA than they were in doing the right thing.
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85% of NRA members support universal background checks. The NRA doesn’t care.
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Where do you get your statistics? From a MSNBC poll? NRA is the tip of the iceberg of 2nd A organizations. Every state in the republic has at least one and several have more than one. Another National group is NAGR. There are several National groups besides the NRA.
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I’m glad we’ve enacted a law so that drunk driving would never happen again. Oh wait. …
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What a complete failure that no DUI deaths were stopped because of drunk driving laws. Oh wait…..
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So your answer to this would be put more drunks on the road? Because more guns means less violence right? Same for car accidents then…let’s put more cars on the road so we’ll have less wrecks. Perfect sense to me!
If enforcing laws that are there already needs to be looked at, I can agree. But there’s nothing here on the books for assault rifle laws to argue about the enforcing them or not right?
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As an former special education teacher of 15 who had moved to CT in 2006 this hit home. This was a tragedy of unbelievable proportions. President Obama was a class act and brought much comfort to the families, community, state and country.
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Beautiful piece about a beautiful man.
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Thank God for President Obama, and may his enemies find peace by somehow dousing the deranged flames of hatred in their hearts.
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He has continually displayed compassion, Grace, and wisdom and he’s the most genuine president we have had since Carter.
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Yeah he even makes gas line Jimmy look good. Jimmy never thought it would be possible!
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It is nice to see that the guy can get something right on occasion. He has been the most frustrating President since Truman, even considering Nixon and Carter. But he got this situation right, if this report is true.
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Wow. You can’t even give him this. You make me sad.
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I did give him this. If it is true, it is good.
I’m sorry if I made you sad. Grow up and get over it.
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“If this report is true” is hardly giving him anything.
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bdnera, Do you believe something just because you read it someplace without question or skepticism? I just can’t do that. From Truman’s term through now, both partys, I have heard more lies than I ever could remember. Johnson and Nixon were the worst, but this administration is pretty bad to.
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I challenge you to back that statement up, that he’s the “most frustrating President.” Can you? Or are you, like all Obama haters, just saying that with no actual thought or measurement? Seems to me you people say that crap just in obedience to your FoxNews Borg chip implants.
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More frustrating than the guy who sent us to war on a lie? Really?
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We in Australia went to war on the same lie
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Chuck, chuck, chuck! Your obvious hate for President Obama is beyond belief. You are sooooo sad Chuck.
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Beautiful story. The world could use more human kindness instead of fear-mongering in the face of violence.
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The Sandy Hook shooting never happened.
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According to you it didn’t happen because it did not touch your life you lost no one. For the ones that did it is an ever present event in their lives. I hope you never have to live with something like this.
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It did happen and is an ever present event in the lives of those that had a loss that day. A void that they will have to live with the rest of their lives. You should think before you say it never happened you are saying that person’s loved one never existed, very harsh words. I did have a loss in this tragedy. Love wins.
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Really? This is the place to post your sick obsession? You need to tell those parents that their children aren’t really dead. I’m sure they would love to know that. Shame on you!
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It is impossible to express the contempt I feel for anyone who would say this. I know more than one family that lost a child at Sandy Hook. Only a true sociopath would so cruelly deny their suffering.
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Why don’t you travel to Conn and visit these families, then see what your heart tells you? If you choose to not believe because it fits your needs, at least have the kindness not to post in a public place where these hurting people might see it. Praying for you.
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Ouch, Its so weird that you believe this.May you never lose a loved one to violence.
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Sandy Hook happened, so did 911 and the Holocaust. I’m not a fan of our president, but I’m not going to slander the man or believe incredible conspiracy stories just because I don’t agree with him. If he needs a reason to push gun control; there had already been plenty of mass shootings and unfortunately there have been plenty since then. By the way, I am a gun owner.
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Yes. Yes it did. You know what didn’t happen though? Anything to justify anything that the GOP has done for the past couple of decades.
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I would love to hear the reasoning behind that statement.
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Lila Brown you are utterly insane. What you spout is a knife in the heart of those families who lost a child or loved one that day. How can you be so heartless by valuing a piece of cold metal above human beings?
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Oh my. I knew there would be one of THESE people in the mix.
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Our president surely has a way of handling difficult situations with compassion and dignity. 😅
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Our President Obama makes me prouder of him every day. His job is one of great burdens that he deals with daily with grace and respect for our people and country.
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I always new he was an incredible man and president. I wish all the hateful rhetoric spewed against him would stop.
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He must be a very frustrated man, unable to get the gun laws improved and his compassion throws Trump into stark relief. 300 shootings and not a word for gun laws from Trump, then two Muslims attack and Trump wants to ban them from entering the US, tag all the Muslims who already live there and put many of them in concentration camps. It really does show the difference between the two men.
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I find your comment as almost a knife in the heart as I feel that this administration has had a hand in these mass shootings JUST to disarm the American public. Btw, I’ll be voting for TRUMP in 2016
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That is an unbelievable statement. Not one gun has been taken from the people during his administration. To suggest that anyone other than the murderous perpetrators had part in this is beyond the pale. To suggest Obama did is simply evil.
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Yes guns have been taken away… Because of this jump on the gun bandwagon..Govs of both NY and Ct. went after legal gun owners..In NY Como passed the NY SAFE act that made thousands if not hundreds of thousands of legal gun owners criminals over night.. Said we can no longer own firearms that held more then 7 shots..Most modern firearms do.. You can’t sell them in state or hand them down from father to son.. In NYC. The Police first sent letter to those who had permits and registered their guns… The Police said they must surrender them..That is confiscation..oh yea because they were registered they knew who had them… Just like the Nazis did right before WWII.. I had friends that had expensive firearms taken with no recourse.. So screw you when you say no guns are taken away.. Ban demented people!!! And some of those that are demented are those that follow religion way too much.. Christians that go after abortion clinics to Muslims that are good Muslims that follow Mohammad state anyone that is not Muslim aren’t considered human.. If you don’t convert to Islamism you are to be killed or enslaved… Trump for President 2016, Clinton for Prison 2016.. Bernie Sanders what a Joke..plus one foot on a banana peel one in the grave..
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You my fellow American, are part of thr problems not Our President, and I feel sorry for you with tjat much Hate in your heart, is what will do you in💩💩💩💩
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That figures.
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Too bad,Hitler lost huh, then he could have helped Trump directly instead of just leaving him his ideas. Why not just kill all Muslims, there are more than a few religious and GOP/Tea Party leaders that want that. Please tell me how Trump plans to deport an estimated 11 million people. Even if we had the planes and ship to put them all on where do you dump them? No country is gonna let them land or dock to dump them? So what just dump them at sea? March them to the Mexican or Canadian border at gun point and if they do not cross, open fire? Or maybe just build several thousand new prisons? Hey that works, then he could say he created tens of thousands of jobs as prison guards, Tell me how is he going to do it. He has no clue. He is hated by half the free world an pretty much all the Muslim world, wouldn’t it be nice maybe he could start a world war and nuke everyone he hates, of course the radioactive ruin that was left would kill almost everyone else as well. Trump is a loudmouth braggart who opens his mouth and lets fly with zero regard for what he says. 90% of what he says he could never do, no one could. All he will ever do is make huge promises , ruin tens of millions of lives and turn America into a fascist state that Hitler and Mussolini would be proud of.
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You want a place to dump them… Africa is a huge continent.. we can dump them there..most of our illegal immigrants are coming from warm climates.. Not Canada or Mexico.. Too easy to slip back over.. There are sharks off the shores of Africa..That should keep people at bay.. They could start a new life..Most came from mud huts send them back to mud huts..
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I am reminded of President Lincoln spending a lot of time near the soldiers home during the Civil War so that he could look out often on the soldiers cemetery. The leader of a people should never forget the ones who die in service or unnecessarily under his watch.
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Stands to reason!!! No one has been disarmed, but as the ancient saying goes: The greater fool is the fool who follows a fool!
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You are part of the problem.
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One is a man, the other is a heathen.
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Another great point Angela! Your particular insights are most invaluable. The American people have lost the ability to think for themselves in favor of turning it over to talking heads & pundits of radio and television.
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As we watch President Obama visibly age over the last 7 years, this post explains it all.
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Reblogged this on Reading, Drinking and Dancing with a Chaser of Snark and commented:
I’ve admired President Obama most during difficult times, as he remains strongly stoic and offers words and hugs of comfort.
His legacy will be one of compassion and understanding.
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Helpful. Thank you.
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Thanks for this. I think he is pushing harder now than ever before for sensible gun regulation.
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