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."
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Hubby had a triple bypass.
0 is a dick head.
It is NOTHING like it.
He loved his GSD more...right up until he “tested” the cyanide on her.
My brother also knows what it’s like to drop off his daughters at school.
They both went to an advanced campus type science and math HS 100 miles from home when they were 16.
One is an engineer at a defense contractor the other is a Physics Professor.
The Obama kids will coast, get a degree they never earned and be a pain in our butts for the next 60 years.
I had open heart surgery. I was anesthetized. Didn’t feel a thing.
Is that what Barry means?
I was not aware that you even had to go to college to become a community agitator..I mean, organizer.
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