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Swede

(37,665 posts) Sat Oct 18, 2025, 04:40 PM Saturday

Retired Admiral McRaven chokes up while speaking to President Obama.

This is a President.

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Retired Admiral McRaven chokes up while speaking to President Obama. (Original Post) Swede Saturday OP

K and R Celerity Saturday #1

Hope all take the time to watch this clip, you won't regret it. But it may cause a few tears. MLAA Saturday #2

How refreshing to see a man who respects the office underpants Saturday #3

Oh, President Obama, how I long for another president like you. MIButterfly Saturday #4

Celerity

(52,642 posts)

1. K and R

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Sat Oct 18, 2025, 04:46 PM

Saturday

MLAA

(19,569 posts)

2. Hope all take the time to watch this clip, you won't regret it. But it may cause a few tears.

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Sat Oct 18, 2025, 04:50 PM

Saturday

Thanks, Swede.

underpants

(193,550 posts)

3. How refreshing to see a man who respects the office

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Sat Oct 18, 2025, 05:01 PM

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We had that just 10 months ago.

Both “got” the power and responsibility of where and what they were.

MIButterfly

(1,518 posts)

4. Oh, President Obama, how I long for another president like you.

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Sat Oct 18, 2025, 06:31 PM

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I had forgotten how normal (and great) it was to hear an intelligent, compassionate, caring president speak so eloquently in full sentences. Instead, we are subjected to a doddering old fool incoherently spewing gibberish on a daily basis. That some people prefer the latter to the former is something I will never comprehend.

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