President Obama: "This is the land of the free. And it always will be."

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White House Live ?@WHLive

President Obama: "This is the land of the free. And it always will be."


White House Live ?@WHLive

Obama: "As Americans, we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights that no man or government can take away from us."


White House Live ?@WHLive

President Obama: "Along with our freedom to live our lives as we will comes an obligation to allow others to do the same."


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President Obama: "If there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if even one life can be saved, we have an obligation to try"


TheObamaDiary.com ?@TheObamaDiary

President Obama: "If we stand up & say 'enough, we ..... care too much about our children to allow this continue', then change will come'.


The Democrats ?@TheDemocrats

RT @BarackObama: "While reducing gun violence is a complicated challenge, protecting our children from harm shouldn’t be a divisive one."


White House Live ?@WHLive

President Obama: "I’m putting forward a specific set of proposals based on the work of Joe’s task force."


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President Obama: "In the days ahead, I intend to use whatever weight this office holds to make them a reality."


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President Obama: "The most important changes we can make depend on action from Congress. They need to bring these proposals up for a vote."


The Democrats ?@TheDemocrats

RT @WHLive: President Obama: "Finally, Congress needs to help, rather than hinder, law enforcement as it does its job."


Zeke Miller ?@ZekeJMiller

Obama: Ask your member of Congress if they support universal background checks…And if they say now, ask them why not.


Nerdy Wonka ?@NerdyWonka

Pres. Obama says of congress: "What is more important, getting an 'A" grade from the gun lobby or making sure your first grader is safe?"


Mike O'Brien ?@mpoindc

Obama concludes:"Let's do the right thing. Let's do the right thing for them, and the country that we love so much."


Ezra Klein ?@ezraklein

READ: Obama’s plan to reduce gun violence http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/16/read-obamas-plan-to-reduce-gun-violence/ …


Dan Froomkin ?@froomkin

Transcript of Obama's gun control announcement: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obamas-remarks-on-new-gun-control-proposals-jan-16-2013-transcript/2013/01/16/528e7758-5ffc-11e2-b05a-605528f6b712_print.html …



tweeted by, daveweigel ?@daveweigel

LOL at the people who wrote "Obama gives big speeches but won't do anything on guns!" columns last month

[gateley]

1. I think if was solely up to Obama, a lot would be done. It's that pesky Congress that' the problem.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. The Congress ...

that no one seems to acknowledge as having done nothing, but hide in the blame of this President when things don't get done, and accept the praise of this President, when it is safe for them to act.

[gateley]

5. Don't get me started!

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. Please get started ...

I'm tired of reading what President Obama hasn't done right and all he has done wrong ... nevermind, the Constitutionally designated body has done very little, right or wrong, on their own initiative.

[gateley]

8. I think it's done a LOT of wrong if only by its inaction and wasting time on anti-abortion bills.

It's truly shameful.

[Still Sensible]

2. Those folks will just change the meme to

"It's not enough," "Too little," or "It doesn't matter, it won't work anyway."

Lather, rinse, repeat.

[malaise]

3. I'm glad he did what he did today, but he should have made these demands

when Gabby Gifford was shot. I guess as he said it is only the American People who will force change and she did not have the same impact on people as these innocent little children and their teachers being slaughtered days before Christmas.

Thank you Obama!!

[gateley]

9. That's true -- the citizenry needs to be involved--

I think the recent vote on Sandy relief is an example of that. People were outraged at Congress's refusal to allocate more to help our fellow citizens.

Problem is, so much is done under the radar that the majority isn't even aware. We need to always keep it "out there" when they do shit like that. It's wrong, and it's wearying, but it's our reality these days.

[Enrique]

7. people also said "there's nothing he can do"

people who complained about his lack of action were right in that there were steps that were not being taken. People who made excuses for Obama to the effect that such action was impossible, are being proven wrong by the action Obama is taking now.

[bigtree]

11. you can't go back and invent the support he has right now

. . . it just wasn't there.

[mwrguy]

10. he punted everything to congress

President Obama didn't do anything substantial today.

[OneMoreDemocrat]

12. Oh man, why bring reality to the party?...

This thread was going so well.

Darn.

[bigtree]

13. ha!

funny stuff.

[tjwash]

16. Come on be happy. In a couple of weeks...

...you all get to start your endless "OMG HE IS GOING TO CAVE!!!!11!!11 TEH SOCIAL SECURITY IS GONE!!!!111!!!1" threads 24 hours a day for a month until the debt ceiling gets resolved.

Hey...just giving the haters something they can look forward to.

[stevenleser]

14. He's going to cave! He's going to cave! Oh wait...

[bigtree]

15. less confrontational title . . .

. . . and a kick