This is what Obama did in a crisis. Dear #MAGA, compare and contrast this with your IDIOT.

[riversedge]

I remember reading this a long time ago. I reread and it makes me so proud that Obama was President during this dark time.




Dr Kelly Sennholz? @MtnMD 8m8 minutes ago

This is what Obama did in a crisis. Dear #MAGA, compare and contrast this with your IDIOT. https://voxpopulisphere.com/2015/12/11/10733/ … Thank you.

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Joshua Dubois: What the President secretly did at Sandy Hook Elementary School

Below is an excerpt from The President’s Devotional by Joshua Dubois, the former head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He’s recounting events that occurred Sunday, December 16, 2012 — two days after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff members. Dubois had gotten word the day before that the President wanted to meet with the families of the victims:

I left early to help the advance team—the hardworking folks who handle logistics for every event—set things up, ........................

The families came in and gathered together, room by room. Many struggled to offer a weak smile when we whispered, “The president will be here soon.” A few were visibly angry—so understandable that it barely needs to be said—and were looking for someone, anyone, to blame. Mostly they sat in silence.

I went downstairs to greet President Obama when he arrived, and I provided an overview of the situation. “Two families per classroom . . . The first is . . . and their child was . . . The second is . . . and their child was . . . We’ll tell you the rest as you go.”

The president took a deep breath and steeled himself, and went into the first classroom. And what happened next I’ll never forget.

Person after person received an engulfing hug from our commander in chief. He’d say, “Tell me about your son. . . . Tell me about your daughter,” and then hold pictures of the lost beloved as their parents described favorite foods, television shows, and the sound of their laughter. For the younger siblings of those who had passed away—many of them two, three, or four years old, too young to understand it all—the president would grab them and toss them, laughing, up into the air, and then hand them a box of White House M&M’s, which were always kept close at hand. In each room, I saw his eyes water, but he did not break.

And then the entire scene would repeat—for hours. Over and over and over again, through well over a hundred relatives of the fallen, each one equally broken, wrecked by the loss. After each classroom, we would go back into those fluorescent hallways and walk through the names of the coming families, and then the president would dive back in, like a soldier returning to a tour of duty in a worthy but wearing war. We spent what felt like a lifetime in those classrooms, and every single person received the same tender treatment. The same hugs. The same looks, directly in their eyes. The same sincere offer of support and prayer.

The staff did the preparation work, but the comfort and healing were all on President Obama.. ...............
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From The President’s Devotional. Copyright 2013 Joshua Dubois.

[Heartstrings]

1. I genuinely miss this man!

There are many MAGA'ers who will profess Sandy Hook was/is a conspiracy, and never happened.

Sad and pathetic as hell!

[riversedge]

3. Sigh.

[LonePirate]

2. That was one of Obama's finest moments which 45 could never, ever come close to exhibiting.

[progressoid]

4. If a tragedy like that ever happened to me...

I wouldn't want Trump anywhere near me!

[PatSeg]

5. Such grace and compassion

I am reminded how cruel some on the far right were after Sandy Hook. I mourn for our country, we are devolving so quickly. Obama was the perfect president for that time and tragedy.

[Johnny2X2X]

6. Alex Jones

If I am ever in the vicinity of Alex Jones he better have security close by to protect him from what I will do to him for what he's put the Family Hook families through.

[PatSeg]

13. It is beyond comprehension

that anyone would do something like that. There was a time when we couldn't even imagine people being so cruel and insensitive.

[matt819]

7. If you read nothing else today, read this

This is what a president is and what a president does.

This is what America is all about.





Not the nightmare we are living through. Not the conspiracy nuts. Not the fascists. Not the buffoon-in-chief or his cabinet or his family. Not the Republican party. We are living through an aberration, one that, sadly, will take more than a generation to recover from. But President Obama, and we here at DU, represent the core of American values.

[BigmanPigman]

8. That made me cry. Obama is a real person.

Right now an "IT" exists in the W House Oval Office. IT must go ASAP.

[Dave Starsky]

9. ANY decent and caring individual would WANT to do this.

There wouldn't be second thought about it. This is how Christians ideally behave, for God's sake!

That he actually took the time to really make it happen speaks volumes about his character.

I'll say it again: I did not always agree with Obama. He did (and didn't do) the things I wish he hadn't done (had done). Sometimes, he even made me mad. But never once did I question that he was an exceptional leader and human being. He was a far better President than we deserve.

[Angry Dragon]

12. We deserve the best president we can get

[maryellen99]

10. I was watching a Hurricane Katrina documentary on YouTube

And when I thought about trump in charge of a national disaster my blood ran cold.

[Angry Dragon]

11. In the comments below the article: Nic really hates the left

[mcar]

14. I remember this too, riversedge

I'm in tears again. What we have lost.

[TNNurse]

15. The problem is those Trump obsessed people

do not believe this. Some of them do not believe it happened.

[raven mad]

16. This is bookmarked forever.

Thank you.