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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The students and professors cried worse, believe me 0.
Want to bet she is cursed with pregnancy before her sophomore year?
My brother just had open heart surgery. Obama is an idiot AND asshole
Is this literal tear-jerker to obscure Michael’s crotch-grab upon leaving the facility?
I seriously doubt the evil bastard has any affection for anyone other than himself. Sounds like fake news.
But hey - Hitler cared for Eva. So it’s possible.
I doubt he even did it himself. He's been MIA since he left office.
If (big if) he did it, I'd bet he left rubber on the road from the peel out when he was leaving. Neither one of them ever looked back as she was flying of the rails.
A little like open-heart surgery?
What an insensitive macro-aggressive statement that demeans the suffering and risk experienced by every man, woman or ch=hild who has undergone open heart surgery!
And I cried harder when he was elected. No sympathy here.
Sounds like bullshit, preparatory for a puff piece.
“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.”
Tell me that does not sound like what a WOMAN would say, not a man.
Anymore, college is the laboratory of the devil.
He’s crying because he’s going to have to score his own weed again...
He should have spent some time with her during the summer. What a phony liar.
can’t make fun of any mans love for his family no mater how much I despise the guy.
What a vagine. Did he get a run in his panty hose too?
Well, if he had cranial surgery I believe he could actually say they found nothing.
I would have blubbered if I had been in his position but, never had children so I won’t be experiencing that joy...
Perhaps he should take a pill instead of getting the surgery.
Did Malia register as a foreign student like her Dad?
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