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... the press being rude to POTUS. I've heard highlighs and accounts here though. He is still my president and I'm so proud to have supported him.

doesn't come out all beaten down and pisses off the WHPC.. and those on DU who thinks he should act all sad. Why give the WHPC the fucking satisfaction? They're always rude and disrespectful and now they were like vicious jackals.

I made a post with quotes of the stupid gop talking points they were asking him.

Thank you!

to accomplish.. they are nothing in the respect to what's important for our Country!

don't mind - but i am using your header as my sig for awhile. if it is not okay, i will remove it. but, it expresses exactly what i think of how he held himself resolute and meant business during the presser. and, he said a whole lot (for those who can "hear&quot in the pauses between the lines. the country needs his strength, resoluteness, focus & love at this time.

I came here looking for that, and saw it right away!

I respect the President. Very much. Have a great day.

'If you can keep your head about you when the rest of the world is losing theirs.'

President Obama is always that man who handles everything with dignity, grace and aplomb. Even when all around him seem to be losing their heads and yammering on and on about speculative nonsense. Thank goodness.

That is what Obama has dealt with from Day One!

If— By Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

The reporters are shallow, babbling brooks who make shrill noises which will mean nothing in history. Obama is living every word of that poem.

Thank you for posting it here freshwest.

All of his critics - they don't know how difficult it is to be President.

He is a good man. He is a reasonable man. All the relentless criticism is mainly projection. I just brush it off my shoulder.

I learned it while pledging my Fraternity, better than 30 years ago, and still remember every line ... because I make a daily effort to apply it to my life.

Another two poems (learned at the same time and remembered for the same reason):

Those are so very beautiful.

What a amazingly beautiful poem! That fits here perfectly~

...out there have lost their minds again and there's no reasoning with them. Thank the gods for the BOG.

I am on the run to get to work. I will be back tonight.

Next time I'm copying your warning. Apparently a few people on my earlier thread um "didn't know".

thank you, bog.