This picture is going to be EVERYWHERE... #ObamaWept

[babylonsister]

Mr. Blow had a close-up of this on FB. So emotional...

https://www.facebook.com/CharlesMBlow/photos/a.91950624988.103944.60870934988/10154376315984989/?type=3&theater




Charles M. Blow
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This picture is going to be EVERYWHERE... #ObamaWept

#Repost @msnbcphoto
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In an emotional and, at times, tear-filled address, President Obama on Tuesday vowed to do something about the plague of gun violence and flexed his muscle via executive powers in an effort to slow the flood of firearms sales and help keep weapons out of the hands of potential gunmen. “People are dying and the constant excuses for inaction no longer do, no longer suffice,” he said.

Pictured here, an emotional Obama pauses as he speaks about the youngest victims of the Sandy Hook shootings, Jan. 5, 2016, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/@apimages)

For the full story, "Obama: 'We are here to prevent the next mass shooting'" go to msnbc.com

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[Iliyah]

1. K & R

[yallerdawg]

2. It has got to be personal.

Everyday for the last 8 years President Obama wakes up to a personal threat assessment, can't go anywhere or do anything without a plan and security including his wife and children.

This is the price to pay for holding the highest office in the USA?

Sick and shameful.

To live with this - and then know now all children, parents, teachers - not just in the poor parts of town, but everywhere - live under these same conditions - and over last 7 years Congress and the Supreme Court shrug their shoulders and mutter nothing will work, nothing can be done - "We have a God-given Constitutional right to have guns!"

Those are tears of frustration, anger, compassion and empathy. We should all be in tears.

[brer cat]

22. Too many times

he has met with the families to give them comfort. It has to take a huge toll, especially the Sandy Hook parents. He is a very strong person to do that...over and over and over.

[yuiyoshida]

27. But the Right wing HATE him so much

They will call him weak, and will make fun of him for being a Cry baby liberal, and not a real man. That's cause many of them are Asses. They are ignorant and uneducated. They think their policies are strong, and bold, but its not. They are infantile, and I probably would call them Neanderthals...except that Neanderthals had FAR MORE COMMON SENSE THAN your average Republican idiot.

[brer cat]

31. I doubt very much

that anything they say will bother him a whit. I have seen very few people as comfortable in their own skin as PBO. It was real, it was what was in his heart. That is all that matters.

[yuiyoshida]

32. Oh I know he will be alright

I guess I am tired of their HATE of the man. They really do hate him, and will never give him any credit for anything. I am pretty sure most of it is racial, and they will never stop hating him. Life was so much better, before the days of Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh...sure there was hate there but you didn't have to hear it, day in and day out. If this country ever goes into free fall it will be because of backward thinking.. and the modern Bigotry that's in the underbelly of this Nation. Its a sad thing to think about.

[gademocrat7]

3. K&R

[mountain grammy]

4. We should all be weeping..

gun sales are through the roof, gun makers are making record profits..

I weep because this is my country and I want to leave it.

[SansACause]

8. The only good news

The only good news is that those sold guns are mostly going to people who already own guns.

Only about a fifth of the people in the US own a gun, the lowest percentage in history.

[mountain grammy]

12. That's some consolation, and pretty true, I think.

My brother in law and nephews buy a new gun every time the President speaks. Sick!

[eggplant]

13. Eventually, there'll be one guy with all of them. Hopefully.

[llmart]

20. I weep too......

because I now have my first grandbaby and I can't for the life of me think what I would do if something like Sandy Hook ever happened to her. I also weep because nothing I have done has stopped this madness in our country and I want to do more, but in our country today money talks and buys politicians. Back in the year 2000 I went on the Million Mom March on our state's capitol and 16 years later, it's worse than ever.

I weep, too.

[MariaThinks]

5. At last a President who cares for the people - not like the republican imposters

[SCVDem]

6. Ask the candidates.

All of them, to give a five minute speech on a mass casualty school shooting.

Now ask them how many times they want to give that speech before THEY do something!

Second ammendment my ass!

[SansACause]

7. Over 700,000 Americans shot during his term.

What leader wouldn't do everything they could to stop that from continuing?

[babylonsister]

9. Every last republican leader in congress, near as

I can tell. The NRA's financial incentives are apparently more important.

[Green Forest]

10. Good man. He does not triangulate. He does what needs to be done after trying his best w/Congress.

I will miss him.

[Tommy2Tone]

11. We will all miss him.

One of the most thoughtful presidents in our countries history.

[sheshe2]

14. Sad K&R

[Ivan Kaputski]

15. K and R

[sheshe2]

16. Here is another, Bsis.

?w=3400&h=2180

http://theobamadiary.com/

[babylonsister]

18. Whoa! Pete Souza, I presume, or no?

If not, I wonder what snaps he got. His humanity shines through.

[sheshe2]

24. No, not Souza.

It's almost painful to look at the raw emotion. He is such a good man, bsis.

[ZM90]

23. Wow. That is a great photo. I think it really shows the compassion and sadness at the loss of life

that the President of the United States has.

[randys1]

26. Has to tear him up, he knows he was supposed to be able to do something, anything, but the RACISTS

insisted no.

[Tarheel_Dem]

29. That breaks my heart. n/t

[sheshe2]

35. Mine to Tarheel.

[jwirr]

17. It needs to be everywhere. This will be one of the pictures

that represents his heritage. A caring man. It looks like VP Biden is pretty close to tears himself.

[llmart]

21. It would take a very hard hearted person....

to not cry when they remember that god awful picture of those little children. Unfortunately we have a lot of people in this country who worship at the altar of guns.

[babylonsister]

25. Did you see this?

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/fox-host-president-obama-put-a-raw-onion-in-his-podium-so-he-could-cry-fake-tears-for-kids-killed-by-guns/

Fox host: President Obama put a ‘raw onion’ in his podium so he could cry fake tears for kids killed by guns

[llmart]

28. Of course I didn't......

I have never wasted any of my precious time on the jackasses on that network. Nothing they say has any credibility. I don't have enough years left on this earth to waste on lowlifes like them.

[babylonsister]

33. Trust me, I didn't watch it.

I read about it via my sister.

[Surya Gayatri]

19. Enormous K & R.

[Hoyt]

30. Has to be tough, knowing victims of guns and that yahoos will be standing in line Saturday

to add another to their "collection" of lethal weapons without any regard to what their perverted obsession does to society.

[babylonsister]

38. And having to console so many victims of guns. Yes, that

has to wear on a person.

[Warpy]

34. Flinty hearted Republicans are going to hoot about this nonstop

They have to lose their own kids to realize how much it hurts, they're completely lacking in empathy.

Some days I wonder if they qualify as human, at all.

[YvonneCa]

36. President Obama has been through so much...

...as President. He has been relentless in doing what was right and/or necessary...even when it was unpopular. Even when it was too nuanced for some Americans to understand. Even when the very people he tried to help, blocked his efforts.
He has been an EXCELLENT President. I hope his great work will be recognized and valued in time.

[babylonsister]

37. You are so right, and I am sure

he will go down in the history books in a positive light.

[rbrnmw]

39. I bawled like a baby today

The best President of my lifetime!!!!

[Cha]

40. Bless President Obama.. he has so much heart and soul!

Thank you so much for this, babylonsistah!

[ladym55]

41. I can't imagine

What must it be like for him to have to console families devastated by gun violence over and over and over with no end in sight. I can no longer get my brain around our crazed adoration of guns. Other countries can watch the Die Hard movies without thinking they are documentaries.

[Stellar]

42. He's dealing with our soldiers being killed and now our children?!

Makes no gawd damned sense! And that's done by so-called Americans on our own soil, and they don't even give damn!