Pres Obama Offers Comfort After Colorado Shooting
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2012/07/23 17:49:35
President Barack Obama dashed to Colorado on Sunday to meet with families of those gunned down in a movie theater and to hear from state and local officials about the shooting that left 12 people dead and dozens more injured. (July 22, 2012)
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mich52 2012/07/23 19:14:10
My opinion of Obama does not change. But i guess he is more human than most people in the GOP think he is.
My since and humble apology and sincere prayers for you concerning the loss of your loved ones.
............. and maybe not even that it if doing so interfered with one of his many Golf games and/or vacations.
Remember this?
It seems that I am not the one that is "full of it" here, Ma'am.
Presidents as far back as Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg have tried to make sense of the senseless, in the wake of national tragedy. Seventy years ago, the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt addressed Congress.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, former U.S. president: Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.
LYNDON JOHNSON, former U.S. president: This is a sad time for all people.
And, in 1968, when Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles in the midst of a presidential campaign, President Johnson gave a national address in which he decried the climate of violence, the rhetoric of extremism in the country. He called for Congress to enact gun control laws. And it was really, actually, quite a powerful speech.
RONALD REAGAN, former U.S. president: We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God.
BILL CLINTON, former U.S. president: Let us let our own children know that we will stand against the forces of fear. When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it. In the fa...
Presidents as far back as Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg have tried to make sense of the senseless, in the wake of national tragedy. Seventy years ago, the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt addressed Congress.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, former U.S. president: Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.
LYNDON JOHNSON, former U.S. president: This is a sad time for all people.
And, in 1968, when Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles in the midst of a presidential campaign, President Johnson gave a national address in which he decried the climate of violence, the rhetoric of extremism in the country. He called for Congress to enact gun control laws. And it was really, actually, quite a powerful speech.
RONALD REAGAN, former U.S. president: We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God.
BILL CLINTON, former U.S. president: Let us let our own children know that we will stand against the forces of fear. When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it. In the face of death, let us honor life.
Even George W who blatantly dropped the ball with Katrina learned and came back after 9/11
GEORGE W. BUSH, former U.S. president: Our country is strong. A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.
BARACK H OBAMA In November 2009, he eulogized the 13 soldiers who were gunned down at Fort Hood, Texas.
April 2011, in West Virginia, he remembered the 29 men killed in the nation's worst coal mining disaster in 40 years.
Now this atrocity he has again spoken to the nation to help refocus our priorities on caring for each other instead of destroying each other.
He stated "This is not the time to spike the football" because Pakistan would become enraged, not because he did not want to tout our Country's brinkmanship. The GOP started saying this was no big deal, the killing of Bin Laden. Their party didn't get the job done so they sure didn't want President Obama to get the credit.
To me it was a big deal and if no one else sings his praises, his campaign team will and good for them.
Yaay, Obama, good job!
Who knew that opportunistic bastard would actually do it?
“I know the president is in Colorado today before he’ll be here in San Francisco. He’s visiting with families of the victims, which is the right thing for the president to be doing on this day, and we appreciate that,” Romney said.
Romney’s comments come just days after he and Obama opted to put their political rhetoric aside in the aftermath of Friday’s shooting, which left 12 dead and another 59 people wounded at an Aurora movie theater. Both candidates used their campaign events Friday to focus on the shooting—instead of attacking each other—while their campaigns pulled political ads airing in Colorado.
Perhaps you should do the same.