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    Obama Still Sounds Like a President

    The former consoler in chief issued a statement on El Paso and Dayton that contrasted sharply with Trump’s rhetoric.
    by David A. Graham Aug 05, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters

    Today, the consoler in chief finally emerged to comfort the nation after the massacres in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.

    No, not President Donald Trump. He spoke, too, in White House remarks read stiffly from a teleprompter, using a lexicon that sounds stunted coming from him.

    Instead, this was Barack Obama, in a statement delivered on social media:

    It is vintage Obama. There is the sense of consolation that seemed to come naturally to him—in any case, he got horrifically frequent practice

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