I really miss this man.

[sheshe2]

Link to tweet

Barack Obama
@BarackObama
I thought I knew Green Eggs and Ham better than most people, but at Kimball Elementary’s vaccination site earlier this month I finally met my match.

[PTWB]

1. Barack is a national treasure.

[Stuart G]

4. He is also a world treasure.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

59. History will remember him as one of our best presidents.

He has so many good qualities- one of my favorites is how he has a great sense of humor and can laugh at himself.

He is simply VERY Presidental and Michelle was a wonderful First Lady.

[brer cat]

2. He is so at ease with children.

They love him and he loves them back.

[Caliman73]

7. Nailed it. You nailed it.

He is at ease because he loves them. He sees the humanity, the hope, the potential. He sees them not a props, but as people that are craving connection.

He and Biden are two of the most empathetic politicians in the last 30 years. Bill Clinton had that skill as well, but he was, in my opinion, not quite as sincerely there for the people in the moment. There was a tiny bit of weirdness with Bill that is not there with Obama and Biden.

[BootinUp]

3. He enjoyed that. nt

[lunatica]

5. Me too! Big time!

I love how he is with kids. He’s perfect!

[sheshe2]

8. He will be a wonderful Grandpa some day.

He always puts a smile on my face.




He probably got a face full of drool that day.

[lunatica]

14. Sigh...

[sheshe2]

18. The love was mutual.

[malaise]

30. Was?

Is

[sheshe2]

31. Yes, is.

[Delmette2.0]

35. You tell he is savoring them hug and missing the moment his daughters were small.

I love his humanity.

[electric_blue68]

37. Such a *lovely* photo!

[Larissa]

57. Note the sweet elephant costume

Could it be Horton?

"“From sun in the summer. From rain when it’s fallish,
I’m going to protect them. No matter how small-ish!”

[Deuxcents]

6. Awww.. I miss him, too

Those 8 years went by too fast..maybe not for him but for me b/c I never dreamed what hell was coming after he left.

[ForgedCrank]

28. I think that's what made

megga-ass so difficult to absorb. We went straight from peace and unity to all out hell overnight and unexpectedly.
It still makes me sick thinking about it 5 years later.

[multigraincracker]

9. I love the man and he

is, like me, half Irish.

[wnylib]

39. I though his mother's family were English.

(Apologies for mentioning English to someone who is half Irish.)

[multigraincracker]

43. It's right there in the song.

[wnylib]

46. Catchy tune and cute lyrics, but

if Obama can become O'Bama, then what about omicron? Is that an Irish virus? O'Micron.

[Irish_Dem]

10. I think that baby girl ate his lunch.

[secondwind]

11. Same here............ sigh.. there's only one Barack Obama...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Same here

[cilla4progress]

13. We didn't deserve him.

Or Michelle.

There, I said it.

[sheshe2]

19. You are right, cilla.

[calimary]

51. Indeed.

[paleotn]

15. There is no level of goodness and decency that that man doesn't possess.

He's a gem. Truly is.

[c-rational]

16. Smile!

[NBachers]

17. Of course I had to watch it twice.

[sheshe2]

21. Beat ya, watched it three times.

[70sEraVet]

20. I saw Bobby Kennedy when I was 9 or 10. He was like that.

Never lost his child-heart.

[LoisB]

23. What could have been.

[70sEraVet]

25. I think of that ALL the time.

[LoisB]

45. The world would be a much better place today.

[NBachers]

29. You know, my heart gets stabbed even deeper with Bobby than it does with JFK.

At least we had President Kennedy for those special years when he was in office. With Bobby, we were deprived of the whole experience.

I always had the impression that Bobby knew the evil he was up against and would have dealt with it even more adamantly than John did.

The side that killed them has never stopped trying to bring about the criminal fascist takeover of the United States, and the world.

[LoisB]

44. Yes!

[electric_blue68]

36. Wow...

He was actually a gentle and empathetic child but his dad hated that so he hid that side of himself and toughened up.

After he lost JFK that side of him began to reemerge.

My mom who hated HUAC/Joe McCarthy where RFK had been a part of wached Bobby as started to campaign for the Presidency and said, "he's changed.".

He marched as previously being NYS Senator in our NYC '68 Greek parade. I decided since I wasn't a big fan of parades at that point, and the time of yrar can be gray, rainy, still coldish -
I'd see him wh n he'd come to NYC for the NYS Primary.
😐😑😑😑😶😔

[ZonkerHarris]

22. Picturing Trump talking to a child: "My wife is hotter than your Mom."

[housecat]

24. He was loved by the world, but the racists hated him so much they gave us trump

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[malaise]

33. At home and abroad

The truth

[alphafemale]

26. And he could have named something out of just about any book she said

You know it.

[niyad]

27. So do I. That was sosweet. Thank you for sharing.

[NBachers]

32. He also doesn't mind elevating others at his own expense, as opposed to having to crush everyone.

[TheRickles]

34. Too bad the camera angle didn't include the girl's mom. I bet she was bursting with pride. :-)

[ShazzieB]

38. That was beautiful!

What do you want to bet he read that book to his girls about a million times and could recite the whole thing by heart!

[sheshe2]

42. Probably.

He is a good man and a good father.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

40. Shouldn't he be able to run in '24 since he'd be out of office 8 years?

I know it arbitrarily changed after FDR. But clearly that could be amended again.

[WarGamer]

41. me too

The first POTUS from my generation.

I felt a special kinship with him just from his writings and TV appearances.

I can't see another politician like him out there right now.

Some on the Left gave him a hard time but he maintained rigid ethical policies in his gov't and really was fair and kept partisanship mostly to the side. He is/was a man "well above" the office.

[The Jungle 1]

47. I trust people who can make children smile.

[Mad Lib]

48. The simple goodness of this man!

The world has reached the point where the simple goodness of this man brings tears to my eyes.

[Tommy Carcetti]

49. Thankfully he's still around and active...

...and proof that we were smart enough to elect him to 8 years in office.

[llashram]

50. compared to the dirt

that tried to take over our government. I am just glad WE have a human being as represented by these two handling the opposition to the dirtbags trying to ruin every American's life. The is perfect.

[leighbythesea2]

52. Oh my heart

[Texaswitchy]

53. What a Grandpa he will be.

Hurry up girls.

[panader0]

54. Another kick.

[2Gingersnaps]

55. Yeah, if ever we were going to have a "King for life"

This Constitutional Scholar would refuse it. Damn it!!

He is adorable with kids.

[sarchasm]

56. ❤️

[geardaddy]

58. Me too!