Newtown, CT – A mournful President Barack Obama said Sunday that the nation is failing to keep its children safe, pledging that change must come after an elementary-school massacre left 20 children dead.
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“What choice do we have?” Obama said. “Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard?”
In a vigil for the fallen, in a moment of grief that spread around the world, Obama conceded that none of his words would match the sorrow. But he declared to the community of Newtown: “You are not alone.”
For Obama, ending his fourth year in office, it was another sorrowful visit to another community in disbelief. It is the job of the president to be there, to listen and console, to offer help even when the only thing within his grasp is a hug.
The massacre of 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary on Friday elicited horror around the world, soul-searching in the United States, fresh political debate about gun control and questions about the incomprehensible — what drove the suspect to act.
Privately, Obama told Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy that Friday was the most difficult day of his presidency.
I listened to his speech and to the whole telecast…his speech was so empty, it’s downright scary. This is our president?
One of the beat speeches I have ever heard. Emotional and full of substance.
I’m proud to have him as our president.
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You must be very bitter people.
If you read social media you’d see how his words touched millions of people and brought comfort to a broken town.
You don’t have to like him to acknowledge that he gave an excellent speech at the right time.
So did Giuliani in his day.
It was a great speech. Stop the hatred and the politics. He spoke from the heart. It was “dvarim yotzim min ha-lev”.
We have a problem in America today with deranged people who have access to guns.
Perhaps we have discovered the Torah’s intent of Ben Sorer u’Morer. This violent autistic children who see glorified violence are using what they see and hear to strike back.
Not every autistic child is a problem. Some can be highly educated and fit in with society.
But many do not and we do not have the money or the places to treat them.
I am not a supporter of Obama. But I think he gave a good speech from the part I watched.
This man is so transparent with his DRY tears, it defies the imagination. His famous motto, “Never let a good crisis go to waste!”
It’s all just another photo-op for his lowness, the false messiah!
Hope CommonSense is not common.