Tearful Obama Credits Staff for History-Books Campaign – Video




Tearful Obama Credits Staff for History-Books Campaign
The morning after he won re-election, an emotional President Barack Obama credited his youthful staff of several hundred with running a campaign that will "go on in the annals of history." "What you guys have accomplished will go on in the annals of history and they will read about it and they #39;ll marvel about it," said Obama told his team Wednesday morning inside the Chicago campaign headquarters, tears streaming down his face. "The most important thing you need to know is that your journey #39;s just beginning. You #39;re just starting. And whatever good we do over the next four years will pale in comparison to whatever you guys end up accomplishing in the years and years to come," he said. The moment, captured by the Obama campaign #39;s cameras and posted online, offers a rare glimpse at the president unplugged and emotional. During the first four years of his presidency, Obama has never been seen publicly crying. He first came to Chicago, he told the campaign staff, "knowing that somehow I wanted to make sure that my life attached itself to helping kids get a great education or helping people living in poverty to get decent jobs and be able to work and have dignity. And to make sure that people didn #39;t have to go to the emergency room to get health care." "The work that I did in those communities changed me much more than I changed those communities because it taught me the hopes and aspirations and the grit and resilience of ordinary people," he said, as senior strategist David ...From:loudmothcha44Views:25 0ratingsTime:05:27More inNews Politics

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