President Obama Pulls A Boehner, Tearfully Thanks Campaign Staff [Video]

Recently re-elected President Barack Obama took some time out of his busy schedule to extend a heartfelt “thank you” to his campaign staff for helping him get re-elected. Reflecting House Speaker John Boehner, who is known for bubbling into tears at the drop of a hat, Obama shed his own tear or two during his viral address.

Obama’s campaign released the five-minute video in which the president thanks members of his staff at his Chicago headquarters, but the address is also meant for those who worked on the Obama campaign across the nation.

The president began by talking about his work as a community organizer in Chicago, saying that his work “changed me much more than I changed the communities,” continuing that working on his re-election made him feel like he “had come full circle.”

He then became quite emotional, and wiped away tears.

“I became a man during that process. And so when I come here and when I look at all of you, what comes to mind is not that you guys actually remind me of myself, it’s the fact that you are so much better than I was, in so many ways,” Obama said.

“I’m absolutely confident that all of you are going to do just amazing things in your lives,” he said. “What Bobby Kennedy called the ripples of hope that come out when you throw a stone in a lake — that’s going to be all of you.”

“That’s why even before last night’s results I felt that the work that I had done in running for office had come full circle, because what you guys have done means that the work that I’m doing is important. And I’m really proud of that. I’m really proud of all of you.”

As the gathered crowd cheered and applauded, Obama concluded:

“Whatever good we do over the next four years will pale in comparison to what you guys end up accomplishing for years and years to come,” he said. “And that’s been my source of hope. That’s why when people over the last four years when people ask me about how do you put up with this or that and the frustration of Washington, I just think about you.”

Here’s the video of President Obama crying while he thanks his campaign staff: