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Newtown mom fills in for President's radio address. "With Obama's Blessing".
President Obama is allowing the mother of a 6-year-old killed in the Connecticut school shootings to take his place for the weekly presidential radio address – as debates begin next week on Senate gun-control legislation.
The speech by Francine Wheeler marks the first time that somebody besides Vice President Biden has delivered the weekly radio and Internet address since Obama took office in 2009.
Wheeler’s son Ben was among the 20 first-graders and six adults killed in the Dec. 14 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
“It's a message that every American should hear,” the president said in explaining when he asked Wheeler to take his place.
He also said the efforts of Wheeler and others persuaded the Senate to take “a step forward” and that American after listening to her also should speak out “to make our country safer.”
"Thousands of other families across the United States are also drowning in our grief," says Wheeler says in the roughly 4-minute speech broadcast Saturday. "Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy."
Her husband, David Wheeler, sat silently next to Wheeler as she made the recording in the White House Library. Both wore the small green pins that have become a symbol of the shooting.
The White House said Wheeler and her husband wrote the remarks.
"Sometimes, I close my eyes and all I can remember is that awful day waiting at the Sandy Hook Volunteer Firehouse for the boy who would never come home -- the same firehouse that was home to Ben's Tiger Scout Den 6," Wheeler said. "But other times, I feel Ben's presence filling me with courage for what I have to do, for him and all the others taken from us so violently and too soon."
Some of the Sandy Hook families, with Obama's blessing, have launched a stepped-up effort to push a gun control bill through Congress.
Obama traveled Monday to Hartford, Conn., about an hour's drive from Newtown, to make his case for action. On the return trip to Washington, he brought back 12 of the victims' family members, who have been meeting with senators.
The Senate is considering a Democratic bill backed by Obama that would expand background checks, strengthen laws against illegal gun trafficking and slightly increase school security aid. The bill passed its first hurdle on Thursday, and senators will vote on amendments to the legislation in the coming week.
Its fate in the Republican-controlled House is uncertain.
Shortly after the vote Thursday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the voices of the Newtown families may have been the decisive factor.
“But we've got a lot of work to do before Congress finishes the job,” Obama acknowledged Saturday.
Newtown mom fills in for Obama in radio address, president says message for every American | Fox News
I have a message for this very 'misguided' mom.....
It's those same Un-Constitutional anti-gun laws and Gun Free Zones that actually contributed to the horrible death's of all those innocent children!
Wake the Hell up you fool!
You and your dead child are being played like a fiddle by Obummer and his fascist socialist regime!
President Obama is allowing the mother of a 6-year-old killed in the Connecticut school shootings to take his place for the weekly presidential radio address – as debates begin next week on Senate gun-control legislation.
The speech by Francine Wheeler marks the first time that somebody besides Vice President Biden has delivered the weekly radio and Internet address since Obama took office in 2009.
Wheeler’s son Ben was among the 20 first-graders and six adults killed in the Dec. 14 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
“It's a message that every American should hear,” the president said in explaining when he asked Wheeler to take his place.
He also said the efforts of Wheeler and others persuaded the Senate to take “a step forward” and that American after listening to her also should speak out “to make our country safer.”
"Thousands of other families across the United States are also drowning in our grief," says Wheeler says in the roughly 4-minute speech broadcast Saturday. "Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy."
Her husband, David Wheeler, sat silently next to Wheeler as she made the recording in the White House Library. Both wore the small green pins that have become a symbol of the shooting.
The White House said Wheeler and her husband wrote the remarks.
"Sometimes, I close my eyes and all I can remember is that awful day waiting at the Sandy Hook Volunteer Firehouse for the boy who would never come home -- the same firehouse that was home to Ben's Tiger Scout Den 6," Wheeler said. "But other times, I feel Ben's presence filling me with courage for what I have to do, for him and all the others taken from us so violently and too soon."
Some of the Sandy Hook families, with Obama's blessing, have launched a stepped-up effort to push a gun control bill through Congress.
Obama traveled Monday to Hartford, Conn., about an hour's drive from Newtown, to make his case for action. On the return trip to Washington, he brought back 12 of the victims' family members, who have been meeting with senators.
The Senate is considering a Democratic bill backed by Obama that would expand background checks, strengthen laws against illegal gun trafficking and slightly increase school security aid. The bill passed its first hurdle on Thursday, and senators will vote on amendments to the legislation in the coming week.
Its fate in the Republican-controlled House is uncertain.
Shortly after the vote Thursday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the voices of the Newtown families may have been the decisive factor.
“But we've got a lot of work to do before Congress finishes the job,” Obama acknowledged Saturday.
Newtown mom fills in for Obama in radio address, president says message for every American | Fox News
I have a message for this very 'misguided' mom.....
It's those same Un-Constitutional anti-gun laws and Gun Free Zones that actually contributed to the horrible death's of all those innocent children!
Wake the Hell up you fool!
You and your dead child are being played like a fiddle by Obummer and his fascist socialist regime!
