In 'Time 100,' Obama Says Parkland Survivors 'Don't Intimidate Easily'

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By Matt Shuham | April 19, 2018 11:24 am

Former President Barack Obama celebrated the survivors of the February shooting massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in an entry for Time’s “100 Most Influential” issue, writing that they had mobilized a political movement against “mealymouthed politicians[,] mendacious commentators” and the gun industry.

“Seared by memories of seeing their friends murdered at a place they believed to be safe, these young leaders don’t intimidate easily,” the former President wrote. “They see the NRA and its allies—whether mealymouthed politicians or mendacious commentators peddling conspiracy theories—as mere shills for those who make money selling weapons of war to whoever can pay. They’re as comfortable speaking truth to power as they are dismissive of platitudes and punditry. And they live to mobilize their peers.”

“Our kids now show us what we’ve told them America is all about, even if we haven’t always believed it ourselves: that our future isn’t written for us, but by us,” the entry concluded.

Obama, who’s said that the 2012 gun massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was the “toughest day” of his presidency, has long criticized congressional inaction on gun control.

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1. K & R - President Obama/Sandy Hook

NRA should have been stopped here.
Parkland teens are bigger heros than any politician giving the NRA a greenlight to do business as usual. Instead they chose "Profit before children"

Yet politicians, with a voting record that kept The NRA free to do this again & again fell short.
Know their NRA Voting Record!

"... be at our best as Americans"
Its as though they never listened to Our President nor the people of this country
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President Barack Obama, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on Dec. 14, 2012, in Washington, D.C., following the shooting in a Connecticut elementary school in which 26 students and educators were killed.

"This evening, Michelle and I will do what I know every parent in America will do, which is hug our children a little tighter and we'll tell them that we love them, and we'll remind each other how deeply we love one another.
But there are families in Connecticut who cannot do that tonight.
And they need all of us right now.
In the hard days to come, that community needs us to be at our best as Americans."