Topic: Barack Obama calls for "common-sense gun reform" in a New York Times editorial. - page 2. (Read 1847 times)

A Commander-in-Chief’s Crying has Consequences

Poetrooper | January 7, 2016   | 54 Comments

I’ve never subscribed to that ancient admonition that real men don’t cry. I’ve witnessed men much harder and tougher than me shed tears under the stresses, frustrations and personal losses of ground combat. But when those men relaxed their emotional defenses and allowed tears to flow, it was within the relative privacy of their fire teams or squads, among those who had shared their stresses and damned well knew the man crying was no weakling. I can imagine the tears of frustration shed by those soldiers and sailors who wash out of elite programs like Ranger and SEAL training, especially those dismissed in the latter stages after they’ve endured so much, not exactly the kind of people you’d be inclined to dismiss as crybabies except at your own peril.

But what I’ve never witnessed is a commanding officer going before a parade field of massed troops and wiping away tears as he discusses new regulations he is about to implement and the reasons that necessitate the changes. And that, in effect, is what our commander-in-chief did recently in his speech about the new executive orders regarding gun control he is preparing to issue.

Obama didn’t just emote before the troops; he emoted before all the troops and their leaders massed against us all around the globe. Can you imagine how the Imams are reacting to that emotional display? How about Putin? Think he may be rethinking his options in Ukraine or the Baltic states?

Or the Norks? Sure, I know it’s a coincidence they detonated a nuclear weapon the same day as Obama’s tearful speech and I’m betting that now they’re wishing they’d waited a day to take advantage of the propaganda potential with their own people: See how the weak American president cries like a child at our glorious demonstration of socialist military might.

Even our allies must be cringing with the knowledge that this emoting wuss is what they have to rely on for their own national security. For the leaders of Israel, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, South Korea, it’s one thing to be assured that the most powerful military forces on the planet have your back; but when all that military might is in the hands of a leader who tears up announcing domestic policy changes, a shiver surely must go down your spine while viewing that video clip. Rewind it and watch it once more while remembering crossed red lines, unwise troop withdrawals, terrorist releases and Iranian nuclear deals and you’ll probably be wondering where you put that number for Vladimir’s personal line.

Imagine the delight among ISIS leaders watching their bête noire (no pun or racist reference intended) demonstrate that he is no Great Satan but ikely much more a mere Little Djinnie? It’s rumored the ISIS propaganda folks are producing a dubbed video of a bicycle-helmeted, mom jeans wearing dude with a putter in his hand being tossed off a building. It should have instant credibility and recruiting potential all across the region. They’ll probably be running that tape in loops at Middle Eastern television stations for the next year or so, right after the excerpts of Obama’s tearful gun control speech and followed by a reminder of Osama bin Laden’s solid Arabian horse sense.

A commander-in-chief crying has consequences, for crying out loud.

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bro, you live in America. We are violent. We have a love affair with guns. People want to confront everyone they encounter because everyone they encounter may very well be a thug, at least in an American's eyes

Guns don't need reformed, criminals and murderers do.

I can´t believe how he forgets to mention the survivors of all this shooting. The scores of the wounded and some of them invalid for the rest of their lives. But of course that would also point the attention to soldiers that fight for the corporate interests, not to mention the civilian victims of this war racket. So, he and other war salesmen don´t talk about too inconvenient things.

Dead is dead and that is that and it´s common sense to these people to ignore the rest of the story.

I can´t copy paste from bloody New York Times, those wankers have some block for that, but

“All of us need to demand leaders brave enough to stand up to the gun lobby’s lies. All of us need to stand up and protect our fellow citizens,” he writes. “All of us need to demand that governors, mayors and our representatives in Congress do their part.”

Obama’s op-ed was published shortly before the President took the stage at a town hall event on guns in America hosted by CNN, and two days after he announced a series of executive actions on gun control. The two leading Democratic candidates for President, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, expressed support for the executive actions, making it unlikely that Obama’s ultimatum would affect a member of Obama’s party.

In the editorial, Obama calls gun violence a “national crisis” that requires a “national response” and listed a number of examples of what he called “common-sense” reforms, such allowing consumer safety requirements for guns, conducting more research on the public health impact of gun violence, and making it easier to bring lawsuits against manufacturers.”

The President also reiterated that all Americans have a role to play in reducing gun deaths, which he said claim more than 30,000 American lives every year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/opinion/president-barack-obama-guns-are-our-shared-responsibility.html?_r=0