The Intimacy Of A Hug

[sheshe2]

By Nerdy Wonka



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Julie Hirschfeld Davis: Long And Genuine’ Hugs: Shooting Victims’ Relatives Recall Obama’s Empathy

The wrenching ritual has become all too familiar to President Obama. His armored limousine deposits him at a nondescript building big enough to hold a large number of families whose loved ones have died in a mass shooting somewhere in America. Away from the news cameras that normally track his every interaction, he enters rooms thick with grief and the hushed voices of people in shock. He grasps for words of sympathy, comfort and condolence and offers long, tight embraces that the mourners will remember far more vividly than his words. Mr. Obama will travel to Orlando, Fla., on Thursday for the latest round of mass consoling, four days after a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 at a gay nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in American history. “He hugged each one of us individually — and I mean hug, so that I was able to smell his cologne,” said Sharon Risher, 57, who lost her mother,



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Ethel Lance, and two cousins in the shooting in Charleston, S.C., last year, and met privately with Mr. Obama the next week. “It was not a little pat on the back. The intimacy of that hug is what I’ll always remember.” Roxanna Green — whose 9-year-old daughter, Christina-Taylor Green, was one of six people killed in a 2011 shooting in a supermarket parking lot in Tuscon, Ariz., where Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding an event — said she had campaigned for Mr. Obama with her daughter and mother and had often dreamed of meeting him. “But you never want to receive a visit like that from anybody,” Ms. Green, 50, said in an interview. “Their hugs were just long and genuine, like something you receive from a family member,” she said of Mr. and Mrs. Obama. “He said she was a beautiful girl, and he’s so sorry, and it was just a horrible loss and his girls are about the same age,” she recalled. “They were both very, very emotional. It was like it happened to someone in their family.”

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Thanks to the Obama Diary for helping us through. Chips is a former DUer. Who left because of all the Obama... yes I have to say hate.

Well, Jackeens you saved many of us. You are an oasis. Amazing site. If you have never been there, go now.

Jackeens...

I love my President.

[msanthrope]

1. Proud to kick and rec. Come back, Chips. nt

[sheshe2]

5. She was before my time.

Happy to have not missed what she had to say. Her site is awesome!

thanks misanthrope and for you kind words the other day. I never got back there.

[Aristus]

2. I'm not worthy of a hug, and thank God I haven't lost a loved one to violence,

but I'd give almost anything to be able to shake the President's hand and tell him how incredibly he has served his office and the American people since 2009.

[sheshe2]

6. Hey you, I would gave anything for a hug from him.

He has been the best Aristus. He has given a huge part of himself to us and really has not asked for anything back.

[Aristus]

7. I was born too late to have lived through FDR,

but I got to be a part of the Obama Era!

[KMOD]

10. You are absolutely

worthy of a hug. You made your life's work about helping others.

[Aristus]

11. Aw, that's nice. Thank you.

[uponit7771]

3. Anyone else already missing him, I keep myself of thinking of the day even though reality...

... is up front and present; he can't be president forever

[sheshe2]

8. He will still be around uponit...

Just not in the office or the rose garden where he was surrounded by so many thorns.

Yes, I miss him already.

[sufrommich]

4. That's beautiful,she.

[sheshe2]

9. Love you suf~

[sufrommich]

12. Back atcha.nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. What a beautiful post, my dear sheshe...

This shows our President at his very best, his most human...

I will miss his genuine empathy and his calm intelligence so much.

[sheshe2]

14. Thanks Peggy~