Who does he think he’s fooling?

Via The Hill:

President Obama insisted Monday that his push for gun control legislation is about preventing future tragedies, not securing a political victory.

“Some in the press suggest that what happens to gun violence legislation in Congress this week will be a political victory or defeat for me,” Obama said, according to excerpts of an address he is to make in Hartford, Conn.

“You know what? This isn’t about me. And it shouldn’t be about politics. This is about doing the right thing for families like yours that have been torn apart by gun violence, and families going forward,” he said.

Speaking just an hour from the site of the elementary school shooting that left 20 schoolchildren and six educators dead, Obama said the country could not “walk away from the promises we’ve made.”