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Barack Obama Cried Dropping Malia Obama Off at Harvard:"It Was a Little Bit Like Open-Heart Surgery"
E! News ^ | 9/27/2017 | Elyse Dupre

Posted on 10/24/2017 10:30:12 AM PDT by simpson96

Watching kids leave for college is difficult for any parent—including former President Barack Obama.

The former commander-in-chief revealed how emotional it was for him to send his eldest daughter Malia Obama, 19, to college this year during a short speech at an event for the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children in Delaware.

"For those of us who have daughters, it just happens fast," the 44th president said in a video published by WDEL 101.7FM. "I dropped off Malia at college, and I was saying to Joe and Jill [Biden] that it was a little bit like open-heart surgery."

However, Obama was able to hold back the waterworks until he and his wife Michelle Obama left the campus.

"I was proud that I did not cry in front of her," Obama said, "but on the way back, the secret service was looking straight ahead pretending they weren't hearing me as I sniffled and blew my nose. It was rough."

(Excerpt) Read more at eonline.com ...


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KEYWORDS: malia; obama; obamainterview; obamapr
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To: PCPOET7

Zactly.


21 posted on 10/24/2017 10:51:54 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: simpson96

I didn’t know that narcissistic psychopaths cry


22 posted on 10/24/2017 10:52:30 AM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: simpson96

Was it due to seeing his daughter leave or because he might have to pay for it?


23 posted on 10/24/2017 10:52:40 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: simpson96

Yet he didn’t cry when she was off for a year partying across the USA? I’d be happier to drop my kid off at college, I think.


24 posted on 10/24/2017 10:56:55 AM PDT by pnz1 (#IMNOTWITHHER)
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To: simpson96
For those of us who have daughters

Even rented ones?

25 posted on 10/24/2017 11:05:08 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

“Even rented ones?”

Maybe the girls aren’t rented as we thought, after all. Maybe they started their lives in Haiti, and were gifts to the Obamas from the Clinton/Podesta pedophile ring.


26 posted on 10/24/2017 11:07:06 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: simpson96

She planning on being a disbarred attorney too?


27 posted on 10/24/2017 11:07:14 AM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: simpson96

A deserving applicant was turned down because someone got in because of who she is. I hope it was a liberal.


28 posted on 10/24/2017 11:07:34 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: simpson96

Obama cried while Mooch scratched his balls on the way out the door. Sounds like roll reversal to me.


29 posted on 10/24/2017 11:12:53 AM PDT by KMG365
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To: RatRipper

When narcissists cry, it’s about themselves. Maybe Obama shed a tear over realizing he is more than half way to 60. It doesn’t appear that aging is his favorite thing. He got so unsettled over turning 50 that he revealed his actual birthdate—third week of July.

When Obama was elected he was the “hip, young president.” Now Trump is taking a bulldozer to Obama’s legacy, and O is staring at the inexorable approach of 60. Those tears may have been real.


30 posted on 10/24/2017 11:15:34 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: simpson96

Quite the actor. Seems he was schooled by Billary, Inc. at spinning a good yarn tailored to a specific audience.


31 posted on 10/24/2017 11:15:56 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: digger48

Yep. That was rather insensitive, unless, of course, one has had open heart surgery, which he hasn’t and has no idea what it is like to make that comparison. Actually, it is like apples and oranges.......he should have said, “it was like saying good bye to your military daughter or son who is leaving for a tour of Afghanistan.


32 posted on 10/24/2017 11:16:13 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: simpson96

stupid-O should not talk as if he understands some thing he has not experienced.


33 posted on 10/24/2017 11:19:20 AM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: simpson96

Pussy...


34 posted on 10/24/2017 11:19:36 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: simpson96

No mention of Michelle? Did he go by himself to drop daughter at college?


35 posted on 10/24/2017 11:23:45 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: simpson96
Oh please...She was working in NYC for a year...

You cry when they go to kindergarten. When they go to college...you pat them on the back and tell them........

36 posted on 10/24/2017 11:34:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: simpson96
Heart surgery?

Yeah, the doc opened up his chest and found NO heart.

37 posted on 10/24/2017 11:46:08 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: simpson96

We should cry for anyone going to Harvard.


38 posted on 10/24/2017 11:48:31 AM PDT by mulligan (The)
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To: simpson96

I’d have cried harder dropping my daughter off at Weinstein’s office.


39 posted on 10/24/2017 11:52:35 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: simpson96
Yeah, right. Open heart surgery? Really?
I wonder if he felt the same way about this.
40 posted on 10/24/2017 11:52:38 AM PDT by Trillian
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