Posted on 01/05/2017 11:44:18 AM PST by Olog-hai
As Barack Obama continues to reflect on his legacy in a series of exit interviews, the outgoing president says he still considers the day he met with the parents of the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 the toughest day of his presidency.
“I still consider the day I traveled up to Newtown to meet with parents and address that community as the toughest day of my presidency,” Obama told the History Channel in an interview that will air on Jan. 15, five days before he leaves office. “It’s the only time I ever saw Secret Service cry at an event. So it was brutal.”
Obama himself has often been moved to tears when reflecting on the mass shooting that killed 26 people — including 20 children — in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012. He teared up delivering a statement the day of the massacre, at an interfaith vigil in Newtown, and even at the White House last January while announcing executive actions designed to curb gun deaths.
“Every time I think about those kids, it makes me mad,” Obama said Jan. 5, 2016. …
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Since XPotus is on a gratuitous self-promotion tour, I regard him to be exploiting dead school kids by mentioning Sandy Hook.
I do not understand the context you are asserting that in.
Can’t help you with your reading comprehension.
Nothing to do with comprehension. Context is required when comparing Obama’s alleged worst day to Bush’s actual worst day (or contrasting with). My perception is that there would be some other day that would rate as the worst day of Obama’s presidency, but he may not see it that way; that’s all.
This SKUNK has never seen a S.S. agent tear up in his life. If he ever had, stating as such just goes to show + is another example of how pedestrian + juvenile this wretched human truly is. IE. “ if it was hard for me, it was hard for them”. THAT is a completely 100% projection B.S. comment from the present “Peasant” of the USA.
Like Anderson cooper.
911?
Maybe obamass should talk to the “sniper” that lost a son. Same guy played both parts.
Look up sloppy sniper.
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