Watch President Obama Announce Proposals for Sweeping Gun Control Legislation (video)

President Obama's news conference, full video, 1/14/13

Note, last news conference of his first term.

Full video of President Obama on Meet the Press and the "Fiscal Cliff"

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Joe Scarborough of morning joe blows a gasket at the congressman from Kansas in regards to assault weapons.

Follow up with Eugene Robinson from the Washington Post

Are we watching a re-run of Caver-in-Chief?

I really hope I am wrong about this but after watching President Barack Obama and pretty much stating he has gone "at least half way", I just don't trust what will come down.

We have seen this show before and it was his lack of leadership and his hunger for that 'bi-partisanship" that turned a lot of people off to him.

Now here we go again. But it takes one of my close friends on this site who told me before the election that, "Barack Obama will be re-elected, state he will protect entitlement programs, but will disappoint and lie in the end."

Well, from what is being floated out here, that individual may not be far from the truth.

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After all we have been through, watching the richest of all RICH ride the backs of the other 98% in this country, I would think that President Obama needs to understand why he was re-elected.

Why we are putting Social Security on the table, a self-sustaining program, for cuts is not what the public re-elected him for?

After watching the most richest corporations in this country, lie, steal, gouge the public and needed a bail out (yes, the banks and AIG) but gave NOTHING BACK TO THE PUBLIC, is just unconscionable. And the sad part about all this is that these companies has hoarded money while watching this economy with little job growth just demise. This is the ultimate of greediness that anyone has ever witnessed.

We saw little help to Main Street from this administration in regards to the housing market. But we watched the culprits who conned many Americans into the fake housing bubble, walk away with billions from their con-job efforts, with no restitution to the public at all and certainly no PRISON TIME, just makes anyone hate politics. Yes, all of that happened and we watched this administration do nothing to those who destroyed this economy. Well, we heard stern speeches, but accountability? Not from Washington, D.C.

We continue to war on as if it just does not matter in this country, while we see men and women who have had 4, 5, 6 reoccurring theater jumps to Afghanistan, Iraq. And we continue to waste money on an un-winnable war that we don't have, but we want to cut up Social Security? Where is the reason here?

I have paid taxes into Medicare and Social Security since I have been working at 15 years old. Why should these programs be not available to me? Why should I work to 67 or 70 years old to have access to them? I don't understand this.

The last I saw from November 6, 2012 is that President Obama won the election on the platform he ran on and it was not cutting Social Security or decimating Medicare. The last I remember, he won handily and resounding over Mitt Romney, extending the senate for Democrats and picking up house seats. I thought that was a mandate.

Look, at the end of the day, Barack Obama can go mealy-mouth, wishy-washy and end up having many stay at home for 2014, like he did in 2010. Or he can remember who brought him to the dance, who worked for him, who voted for him, who REMEMBERS what the hell he said on the campaign trail.

Cutting these programs are gutting millions who have worked all their lives for this. We are not welfare kings or queens, we fucking worked and paid TAXES for these programs.

If President Obama does this, he will regret it down the road. As will the Democratic Party.

Full Press Conference from today, below:

President Barack Obama's Press Conference, December 19, 2012 (video)

President Obama at Prayer Vigil for Connecticut Shooting Victims: "Newtown, You Are Not Alone" (Video)

President Obama's Weekly Address: Nation Grieves for Those Killed in Tragic Shooting in Newton, CT

President Obama's statement on the Connecticut School Shooting (Video)

Time for the "LEADER" of this country to start the conversation about gun control

The bottom line is this, "this could have been your child, your grandchild, your godchild, your niece or nephew, your child's best friend", yes this could happen to you and your family.

And the saddest part of all of this is that this country is too crippling and weak to stand up to the special interests because we are afraid to fight. The politicians are afraid to fight while we continue to see citizens of these high profile shootings die for nothing, but to be remembered as being killed at school, a movie theater, the mall. This is what we have reduced ourselves to.

Sadly, what is the point of these politicians, when they continue to cave to the sheer name of the "NRA". They continue to runaway....

It is time for President Barack Obama, the leader of the United States of America, to open the conversation to this country about gun control.

How many times do we have to continue to listen and watch as hundreds, thousands of our citizens being gunned down due to automatic weapons? How many times do we have to listen to the report that it was 50, 60, 75, 100 bullets in one round that gunned down dozens of innocent lives in less than a minute? What will it take to make this a national issue?

I am glad that the President of the United States called these families, and probably is continuing to do so as the numbers are mounting, but he needs to do more. He needs to lead on this issue.

No more, "this is not the time to talk", it is now time to make the time.

No more, going to these repeated memorials when there is nothing on the table about this.

IF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CAN GET IN AIR FORCE ONE AND TALK ABOUT TAXES, HE CAN DAMN FOR SURE DO THE SAME FOR GUN CONTROL.

MR. PRESIDENT, NOW IS THE TIME.

Sign the petition, now.

Cross-posted @ Daily Kos

Supposedly the following was found at the shooting:

"3 guns found at #Newtown shooting scene: .223 Bushmaster, Glock, Sig-Sauer, police say."

And now the number of dead children is 20.

From Star Jones (and ITA on this one): " Someone is going to have to help me. I've read the Constitution...but I don't see possessing "automatic weapons" as a fundamental right."

1:28 PM PT: Greg Sargent sums it up:

"If today's shooting isn't enough to shame our public officials into action on guns, nothing ever will: wapo.st/WckHp6

President Obama's full News Conference, November 14, 2012 (Video)

Romney was shocked he lost

Look, the Romney Campaign was wrong on most measures. The Republican Party has a heavy lift going forward. You don't win voters by humiliation, nastiness, and at times sheer bigoted rhetoric.

The climate out hear has changed and the GOP gotta play catch up. More importantly, they have to beg for women, African-Americans, Latinos, young people and gays to give them a chance. And good luck with that one.

Mitt Romney's campaign got its first hint something was wrong on the afternoon of Election Day, when state campaign workers on the ground began reporting huge turnout in areas favorable to President Obama: northeastern Ohio, northern Virginia, central Florida and Miami-Dade.

Then came the early exit polls that also were favorable to the president.

But it wasn't until the polls closed that concern turned into alarm. They expected North Carolina to be called early. It wasn't. They expected Pennsylvania to be up in the air all night; it went early for the President.

After Ohio went for Mr. Obama, it was over, but senior advisers say no one could process it.

"We went into the evening confident we had a good path to victory," said one senior adviser. "I don't think there was one person who saw this coming."

They just couldn't believe they had been so wrong. And maybe they weren't: There was Karl Rove on Fox saying Ohio wasn't settled, so campaign aides decided to wait. They didn't want to have to withdraw their concession, like Al Gore did in 2000, and they thought maybe the suburbs of Columbus and Cincinnati, which hadn't been reported, could make a difference.

But then came Colorado for the president and Florida also was looking tougher than anyone had imagined.

"We just felt, 'where's our path?'" said a senior adviser. "There wasn't one."

Romney then said what they knew: it was over.

His personal assistant, Garrett Jackson, called his counterpart on Mr. Obama's staff, Marvin Nicholson. "Is your boss available?" Jackson asked.

Romney was stoic as he talked the president, an aide said, but his wife Ann cried. Running mate Paul Ryan seemed genuinely shocked, the adviser said. Ryan's wife Janna also was shaken and cried softly.

"There's nothing worse than when you think you're going to win, and you don't," said another adviser. "It was like a sucker punch."

Read it all, here.

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