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The Tearful Dictator
Townhall.com ^ | January 6, 2016 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 01/06/2016 7:42:43 AM PST by Kaslin

The tyrant cries.

While announcing his new slate of gun control measures designed to pave the way for a national gun registration regime, President Obama welled up in a press conference on Tuesday. He'd spent nearly half an hour berating Republicans, American voters and the National Rifle Association for their supposed intransigence in failing to embrace his executive actions. Finally, he reached up to his eyes, rubbed at them, and as tears wet his cheeks, he stated, "Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad. ... We need voters who want safer gun laws, and who are disappointed in leaders who stand in their way, to remember come election time."

The American people, you see, have to change. They have to change because they are uncaring. And we know they are uncaring because the most powerful man on the planet weeps when he thinks of the little children.

But you don't, do you?

We've now reached the apex of the Feelings Age. It no longer matter what good policy looks like. It no longer matters what the Constitution says. All that matters is that our politicians care about people like us. During the 2012 election, Mitt Romney won a wide variety of exit polls regarding policy, from leadership skill to values. But he lost the election because Obama clocked him 81 percent to 18 percent on the crucial issue of "cares about people like me."

And now Obama has come to collect.

But he can't do it without the tears. That's because the tears grant him the patina of vulnerability. No one fears the dictator who shows his human side. We view those who violate our rights as nefarious members of an evil cabal, lurking in the night while cackling. We don't view them as highly attuned, sensitive people -- after all, the logic goes, if they were that sensitive, they'd stop before violating the rights of others.

Which is why crying is such an effective tactic for those who would violate your rights. Crying on behalf of victims puts you on the side of the angels, and your opponents on the side of the demons. And we don't tend to care what happens to demons. We're too busy rooting for the angels.

That's why President Obama followed up his lachrymose performance with a call to action against all of his enemies. It's why he talked at length about shredding the Second Amendment in favor of "other rights," as though my right to own a gun endangers your right to pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. It's why the media immediately leapt to cover Obama's waterworks instead of his policies -- because the story is Obama's emotional heroism and essential decency, not his absolute failure to find any real solution to gun violence.

So look for more Obama emotional blackmail. And look for more stories about Obama's emotional journey from the compliant press, which prints narratives about empathetic heroes -- even if those heroes are busy violating other people's rights at every turn..


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 0bama; banglist; secondamendment
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1 posted on 01/06/2016 7:42:44 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Obama was crying because he realized he’ll be unemployed this time next year


2 posted on 01/06/2016 7:45:39 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Kaslin

Even the Wall Street Journal defaced its cover with a picture of our fearless leader crying.
I notice he didn’t cry over the Americans killed in San Bernardino, or the French killed in Paris, or the Christians killed by muzzloms all over the world.


3 posted on 01/06/2016 7:45:56 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Kaslin

“Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad.”

And every time I hear his phony, condescending and halting delivery, it makes me want to puke.


4 posted on 01/06/2016 7:47:42 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: I want the USA back

In the theater there is a substance one can use to bring tears to your eyes. They use it all the time in Hollywood. Jus’ Sayin’!


5 posted on 01/06/2016 7:47:53 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: I want the USA back
I think my blood pressure reached critical levels when I saw those phony tears. What a world leader! With world events, crying is what this weakling mewling dictator does.

Disgusting.

6 posted on 01/06/2016 7:47:56 AM PST by austingirl (Sharia, taqiyya, jihad, hijera- what more do you need to know about islam?)
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To: I want the USA back

They were the epitome of crocodile tears. Disgusting.


7 posted on 01/06/2016 7:48:30 AM PST by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: I want the USA back

Ever seen him cry over the death of a US serviceman...?

Never mind, there are no combat operations in Afghanistan any longer...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-special-operations-forces-attacked-afghanistan-near-marjah-officials-n490491


8 posted on 01/06/2016 7:50:09 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Kaslin

Tearful Totalitarian

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


9 posted on 01/06/2016 7:54:16 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Kaslin

Obama followed up his Mussolini-esque declaration of decrees with a call to action against all of his enemies.

It’s why he talked at length about the need to shred the Second Amendment in favor of “other rights”. You know, like homosexual marriage, redistribution of wealth and ending ‘White Privilege’ by eliminating Middle Classness.

A government intent on disarming you, is a government intent on killing you.

Better understand that quick.


10 posted on 01/06/2016 7:55:17 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Don Corleone

Agree about the “substance that can bring tears.” I had a lot of speaker training through my professional years. Many of the tricks of techniques are borrowed from showbiz. Shrillary’s schtick if full of this crap — all the smiling and waving. Speaker training will put you in front of a video camera and have you practice smiling to find the best, most pleasing smile. Once the smile is established the trainer forces you to take notice and remember how the facial muscles feel. After that it’s a snap to instantly bring forth “the smile.”


11 posted on 01/06/2016 7:56:55 AM PST by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: ManHunter

Perfectly said, and I’m right there with you.


12 posted on 01/06/2016 7:58:03 AM PST by SoKatt ("Change" is not a strategy!)
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To: Kaslin

‘I weep for you,’ the Walrus said:
‘I deeply sympathize.’
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.

‘O Oysters,’ said the Carpenter,
You’ve had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?’
But answer came there none -
And this was scarcely odd, because
they’d eaten every one.


13 posted on 01/06/2016 7:58:37 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

Tearful dick taster..er, dictator. Yeah, that’s what he is.


14 posted on 01/06/2016 8:02:28 AM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Kaslin

Somehow 0bama will figure out a way to declare a national emergency on guns and remain in office until the crisis is over.


15 posted on 01/06/2016 8:03:07 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

He is far too lazy to remain in the position of people waking him up to do federal business. ONLY his masters in the globalist oligarchy can move him now that he’s become a ruler. ... Well, maybe his bedmates ... ... Is Reggie still lurking about the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue address?


16 posted on 01/06/2016 8:06:28 AM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Kaslin
No crying for the dozens of kids who will DIE by school shooters in the future because the anti-gun nuts don't want the teachers to defend the kids with a gun.

Nope, better to wait until an addition 10 or 12 die instead of stopping the shooter early.

A lot of blood is on the hands of those who want “Gun Free Zones”.

17 posted on 01/06/2016 8:09:52 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: SkyDancer
Somehow 0bama will figure out a way to declare a national emergency on guns and remain in office until the crisis is over.

If he pulls a stunt like this, I wonder how the citizens would react? Not as we would hope, I'm afraid.

18 posted on 01/06/2016 8:21:10 AM PST by SMM48
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To: SkyDancer
What will the lying lowlife do next when his executive orders don't stop black males from killing each other? Will he put a hold on moslum immigration if moslums carry out terrorist attacks while using firearms? I'm betting he will punish law abiding gun owners. That's who he really wants to disarm, especially the white ones.
19 posted on 01/06/2016 8:24:19 AM PST by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: butlerweave
BAAADD America. Make obozo CRY!

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20 posted on 01/06/2016 8:26:58 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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