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Tears Of A Clown
In honor of the grand theatrical performance to include crocodile tears at the White House yesterday. A cheap political stunt nothing more.
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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What a horrible post.
Have a good laugh over the next group of first graders who get murdered.
Shame.
Have you no humanity, no sense of empathy or decency.
Or do you just worship you false idol, the gun?
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Re: Tears Of A Clown
Speaking of clowns, the clown prince of today's politics, Donald J. Trump conceded that Obama's tears were very sincere.
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Re: Tears Of A Clown
Now this is what I call being insincere:
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Re: Tears Of A Clown
Criticizing the president for his policy positions on gun control is one thing Common.
But how anyone can criticize someone else for weeping for the death of 20 children, even all these years later, makes me think you are kind of a bad egg.
In case you would like to familiarize yourself with the faces of the six and seven year olds who were murdered in cold blood by a mental patient with access to a high powered assault rifle, you can go here.
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Sorry Lager, but I have to disagree with your statement that anyone who didn't believe Obama was being sincere is a bad egg.
I know plenty of people who saw that yesterday and were not convinced, especially coming from a President that even many of his strongest supporters consider "aloof" and "detached".
Being cynical of his sincerity does not make anyone a "bad egg"
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The vast majority of the people I spoke to who actually watched the broadcast live, felt Obama was being sincere when he spoke of the deaths of children due to gun violence. The people who did not see it as a sincere reaction were people who were generally opposed to Obama and anything he does. But they were a slim minority.
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I thought that he was sincere.
More than that, given the nature of the issue, a gentleman would give him the benefit of the doubt.
At the very least one might express any doubt of his sincerity in an adult way rather than mocking him over this.
It was really childish, as well as terribly insensitive.
People have gotten so caught up in "winning" that they have lost siight of the fact that this is not a game. The victims are real.
Heaping abuse on Obama does nothing but reveal your own hateful spirit to the world.
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Re: Tears Of A Clown
Brady Bunch wrote:
Sorry Lager, but I have to disagree with your statement that anyone who didn't believe Obama was being sincere is a bad egg.
I know plenty of people who saw that yesterday and were not convinced, especially coming from a President that even many of his strongest supporters consider "aloof" and "detached".
Being cynical of his sincerity does not make anyone a "bad egg"
Unless you're straight up evil, I don't know how anyone cannot be emotionally affected when thinking about what happened to those kids. Particularly when the some of the parents are in the room.
Look, I get that we live in a cynical age. And if you are in government and show any sort of emotion other than anger, you are criticized and/or laughed at. Look no further than John Boehner.
I think back to George W. Bush's speech first oval office speech after 9/11. Go back and watch that again. As he spoke, it felt to me like that guy was on the verge of either breaking down in a puddle of tears or breaking out in a blind rage and pushing all of the buttons for the nukes pointed directly at Afghanistan. I always tip my hat to W for keeping it together. Lord knows, I wouldn't have been able to.
Sincerity is something sorely lacking in politics. If someone has a sincere moment in front of the world, I don't think they should be criticized. And for me, Obama's tears rang true. How could they not?
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Who are we to judge what might constitute an emotional moment for another human being? Maybe you need to walk a mile in someone else's shoes before you make a judgment like that Common. The guy was sitting in a room with the parents of 6 year old children who were slaughtered.
I can't think of anyone in my circle of friends who wouldn't be emotionally moved by this, but maybe you or your friends wouldn't be, I guess.
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