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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Zactly.
I didn’t know that narcissistic psychopaths cry
Was it due to seeing his daughter leave or because he might have to pay for it?
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.
Even rented ones?
“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.
She planning on being a disbarred attorney too?
A deserving applicant was turned down because someone got in because of who she is. I hope it was a liberal.
Obama cried while Mooch scratched his balls on the way out the door. Sounds like roll reversal to me.
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.
Quite the actor. Seems he was schooled by Billary, Inc. at spinning a good yarn tailored to a specific audience.
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.
stupid-O should not talk as if he understands some thing he has not experienced.
Pussy...
No mention of Michelle? Did he go by himself to drop daughter at college?
You cry when they go to kindergarten. When they go to college...you pat them on the back and tell them........
Yeah, the doc opened up his chest and found NO heart.
We should cry for anyone going to Harvard.
I’d have cried harder dropping my daughter off at Weinstein’s office.
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