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12. There is an account of how Obama dealt with the Sandy Hook parents.

Reply to calimary (Reply #11)

Fri Jun 1, 2018, 02:04 PM

Jun 2018

I may have even read about it here. It was powerful and poignant.

That second word will never apply to Trump. No moment in his existance could be evocative of the profound, the endearing, the noble, or the beautiful.

Sometime in the future his name will become shorthand for dismal, feckless, (yes, feckless), evil, just as Hitler has become shorthand for chilling, efficient evil.

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He did casually say that he was going to meet with those groups and "have some fun". calimary Jun 2018 #11

There is an account of how Obama dealt with the Sandy Hook parents. Collimator Jun 2018 #12

That's what moved so many pundits to nickname him the Comforter-in-Chief. calimary Jun 2018 #16