"The new Obama has his heart on his sleeve"

[applegrove]

The new Obama has his heart on his sleeve

By Jessica Yellin, CNN Chief White House Correspondent

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/01/politics/new-obama/index.html?hpt=po_c1

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A month later he was overcome by grief as he wept openly in the White House briefing room after the Newtown, Connecticut, shootings. There were tears again during a heroes ceremony for Newtown victims, and while delivering remarks about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The evolution of the nation's 'first gay president'

Second-term Obama is not just showing his emotions, he's sharing them, too -- laughing with the Miami Heat at the White House and telling people in a Chicago audience that they're in the area where "Michelle and I fell in love."

The president's biographer attributes the shift to a new sense of freedom from winning a second term.

"I think we've all seen, actually since the day after his re-election a more relaxed Barack Obama, really something that took a lifetime for him to get to this point," David Maraniss said. "We've really seen a new Obama."

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[freshwest]

1. Good, he deserves a little relaxation to recharge. Thanks.

[longship]

2. What's this shit?

The evolution of the nation's 'first gay president'

Jees!

[applegrove]

3. Since Clinton was the Nation's First Black President, Obama is the first gay president

in the same way.

[msongs]

4. it means please ignore the austerity and budget cutting campaing now underway nt

[cliffordu]

5. Keep watching.......

[JI7]

7. that's a compliment

[trueblue2007]

6. PRESIDENT OBAMA IS WONDERFUL

[JI7]

8. i don't think he is really much different than how he has usually been

in terms of specific policy and his stand like coming out in support of same sex marriage i can see.

but not when it comes to things like showing emotion .