President Obama Calls For Change To End The Violence
ProudProgressive
2012/12/17 02:18:14
President Obama spoke today at a memorial for the people killed in the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday.
Article excerpt follows:
At Newtown Memorial, Obama Tells America We Must Change to End the Violence
By: Jason Easley
Dec. 16th, 2012
At the memorial service for the victims of the Newtown shooting, President Obama said the nation is not doing enough to end the violence and we must change.
Here is the video:
After quoting scripture, the president told the people of Newtown that they are not alone in their grief and that the nation is weeping with them. He said, "Newtown, you are not alone." The president added that the people of Newtown have also inspired the nation in these difficult times. He then praised the bravery of the adult staffers at the school who responded in such terrifying circumstances by giving their lives to protect the children. The president then praised the first responders, and the children who followed instructions and comforted each other. The president said, As a community you've inspired us, Newtown."
Obama said that the nation is left with some hard questions. The president talked about the job of keeping our children safe and teaching them well is something we can only do together. He said, We bear responsibility for every child. We're all parents, and they are all our children." He said society will judge us by how we raise and keep our children safe from harm. He asked if we can say that we are doing enough to keep our children safe from harm? The president said, "I've been reflecting on this for the last few days, and if we're honest with ourselves, the answer's no. It's not enough, and we have to change."
Obama said this is the fourth time he has spoken at one of these memorial services, and that these tragedies must stop and we must change. The president said that if there is even one step that we can take to save one child, one parent, one town from this grief, we must try.
The president said, "We can't accept events like this as routine." He asked if we are prepared to say that the politics are too hard, or that this violence is the price of our freedom?
There was something different about this mass killing, and that was reflected in President Obama's remarks. This president has had too much experience with speaking at this type of memorial. This was his fourth time comforting the nation after a mass shooting, but the first time that he has called for action and change to combat the violence.
It would have been extremely inappropriate for the president to politicize a memorial, but it is clear that this horrific incident has resulted in a moment of national reflection.
President Obama is often criticized for not showing enough emotion, but over the last three days he has worn his heart on his sleeve. Obama is doing what every great leader should do during a time of grief. He is comforting the nation, while offering a vision for the future. One gets the sense that the country wants the violence to end, and President Obama never wants to have to speak at another memorial again.
The president can't stop the violence alone. Every American must demand that we do everything that we can to figure out why this is happening, and what we can do to build a safer future.
Article excerpt follows:
At Newtown Memorial, Obama Tells America We Must Change to End the Violence
By: Jason Easley
Dec. 16th, 2012
At the memorial service for the victims of the Newtown shooting, President Obama said the nation is not doing enough to end the violence and we must change.
Here is the video:
After quoting scripture, the president told the people of Newtown that they are not alone in their grief and that the nation is weeping with them. He said, "Newtown, you are not alone." The president added that the people of Newtown have also inspired the nation in these difficult times. He then praised the bravery of the adult staffers at the school who responded in such terrifying circumstances by giving their lives to protect the children. The president then praised the first responders, and the children who followed instructions and comforted each other. The president said, As a community you've inspired us, Newtown."
Obama said that the nation is left with some hard questions. The president talked about the job of keeping our children safe and teaching them well is something we can only do together. He said, We bear responsibility for every child. We're all parents, and they are all our children." He said society will judge us by how we raise and keep our children safe from harm. He asked if we can say that we are doing enough to keep our children safe from harm? The president said, "I've been reflecting on this for the last few days, and if we're honest with ourselves, the answer's no. It's not enough, and we have to change."
Obama said this is the fourth time he has spoken at one of these memorial services, and that these tragedies must stop and we must change. The president said that if there is even one step that we can take to save one child, one parent, one town from this grief, we must try.
The president said, "We can't accept events like this as routine." He asked if we are prepared to say that the politics are too hard, or that this violence is the price of our freedom?
There was something different about this mass killing, and that was reflected in President Obama's remarks. This president has had too much experience with speaking at this type of memorial. This was his fourth time comforting the nation after a mass shooting, but the first time that he has called for action and change to combat the violence.
It would have been extremely inappropriate for the president to politicize a memorial, but it is clear that this horrific incident has resulted in a moment of national reflection.
President Obama is often criticized for not showing enough emotion, but over the last three days he has worn his heart on his sleeve. Obama is doing what every great leader should do during a time of grief. He is comforting the nation, while offering a vision for the future. One gets the sense that the country wants the violence to end, and President Obama never wants to have to speak at another memorial again.
The president can't stop the violence alone. Every American must demand that we do everything that we can to figure out why this is happening, and what we can do to build a safer future.
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darcie lamar 2012/12/17 03:13:52
+12Obama needs to take his "change" to Chicago. 28 kids were murdered this past summer. Do you think he shed a tear for them or just played CYA for Rahm Emanuel. Those gangs won't change their ways. If it were up to the libs only criminals would have guns.
Obama went and some things that were true and were needed. The nation is devastated, left and right, by what happened. We all do mourn with them. And the individual stories of both the teachers that tried to save lives and the responders who had to deal with things no one should ever have to, those make you appreciate Americans on an individual level.
But to call for action without really defining it? It feels like a punt. It sounds like an attempt to sound strong, an attempt to make everyone feel better because "something will be done", but with no substance to it.
Who knows, maybe in days from now the Administration will take actual initiative as to what they think should be done and from there we can have a discussion.
I'm not holding my breath. I'd expect the White House to do nothing but get behind any measure that others come up with that eventually gathers some support.
I thought this speech was better, he didn't overly politicize it.
According to Gallup Poll findings, just 21 percent of all Americans identify as liberal, while a whopping 40 percent of Americans identify as conservative and 36 percent identify as moderate. The nation as a whole, falls to the right.
You cannot lump people together by political parties to solve American's violence issue. It's this kind of extremism that creates problems, instead of solving them as a nation.
Read my quote below from Mahatma Gandhi.
guns are more available and more prevalent
more poverty, fewer programs to mitigate it
more drug abuse, fewer programs to treat it
abortions are less available, so there are more unwanted children, badly raised children, children in poverty, children with behavioral defects
more racism and a wider economic divide
less educational opportunity and lower education levels
toxins are more prevalent causing diseases such as lead and mercury poisoning that can create behavioral defects before or after birth.
The GOP embraces bizarre conspiracy theories to inspire paranoid passion among their base. They oppose fact-based education, or rather, they oppose facts in general. Think whatever you want. You are factually challenged.
You just keep shoveling the horse dookie. One minute you clowns cry that the rich republicans control the wealth then we are a bunch of uneducated baffoons. Get your stupidity straight ass clown.
0WEbama lied and people died.
how much FEAR we live in and I long for a peaceful society. How wonderful it would be
if assault weapons were reserved for war only? I'll never understand any "innocent"
motive to privately own an assault weapon.
responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. - Mahatma Gandhi
Police all have guns but yet there is violenced on our borders and when Arizona needed help Obama ignored them and then sued them for acting on their own.
Police have guns yet drug dealers continue to peddle the drugs and violence.
Mexican police have guns while citizens are not allowed guns and the killing and violence shadows our violence.
We need better protection in public places.
We need our president to quit spreading hate and lies about his opponents.
We need a leader that will get us out of this depressed economy.
We need a leader that will promote success and not failure.
We need a president that doesn't focus on racism as part of his propaganda.
We need a leader that promotes positive issues and policies versus his negativity.
One point of interest is the fact that the majority of this violence has occurred in liberal states.
Taking guns away from the people has never stopped the violence.
Timothy McVaigh did NOT USE a GUN ............ 168 Murdered
I keep hearing different Americans saying it is in the constitution to hold arms and it makes me sick to hear people talking like this;change the law and get the guns out of the public domain.
As for the president, I think Obama handled the situation brilliantly so far. I hope it leads to change.