The Boston Globe

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Pre-Newtown political rhetoric returns in dueling news conferences

The spirit of public comity that followed last week’s mass murder of first-graders in Newtown, Conn., ended today with a pair of dueling news conferences by President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner in Washington.

While both men had previously said the national trauma of seeing 26 people gunned down in the Sandy Hook Elementary School was enough to put politics in its place, each quickly fell back into the type of political rhetoric that preceded the shooting.

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" .... even though he had avoided pushing any sort of gun control measure himself during his first term."


But Obama is just evolving, where Scott Brown has reversed his position, right?

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