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Boomerproud

(7,952 posts) Mon Aug 14, 2017, 05:27 PM Aug 2017

What a real president would do in the aftermath of tragedy.

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What a real president would do in the aftermath of tragedy. (Original Post) Boomerproud Aug 2017 OP

Amazing Grace nt Weekend Warrior Aug 2017 #1

i think it was cnn that showed a compilation of Presidents doing/saying the right things... spanone Aug 2017 #2

I'll always marvel at how Obama kept it together through so much tragedy. Bleacher Creature Aug 2017 #3

Weekend Warrior

(1,301 posts)

1. Amazing Grace nt

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Mon Aug 14, 2017, 05:28 PM

Aug 2017

spanone

(135,831 posts)

2. i think it was cnn that showed a compilation of Presidents doing/saying the right things...

Reply to Boomerproud (Original post)

Mon Aug 14, 2017, 05:30 PM

Aug 2017

then the jerk...One of them they showed was Obama starting to sing.....

Bleacher Creature

(11,256 posts)

3. I'll always marvel at how Obama kept it together through so much tragedy.

Reply to Boomerproud (Original post)

Mon Aug 14, 2017, 05:45 PM

Aug 2017

I don't think I would have made it through visiting the relatives of the Sandy Hook massacre. And yet Obama showed up every single time to comfort communities shattered by tragedy with unending grace and dignity.

Sigh.

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