Don't be so cynical, they were real tears.The man catches a lot of flak but has lived the "American Dream" in the truest since so when it all hit him that he after many years will he most likely be Speaker of the House in addition to the emotion of knowing they can stop the crap thats been going on, it overwhelmed him.Rather wrong to assume they were fake.I am not an emotional person, honestly have no cried since I was in middle school except at a funeral, well after it but I would prob cry to if rose up from what he did to where is about to be.I will prob get a little misty eyed when I see Obama lose in 2012, tears of joy you know.
From the wiki on him, just the section on his early life.Matches up with other sources.
Boehner was born in
Reading, Ohio, the son of Mary Anne (
née Hall) and Earl Henry Boehner, the second of twelve children in a German-Irish family.
[2] He grew up in modest circumstances, having shared one bathroom with his dozen siblings in a two-bedroom house in Cincinnati. His parents slept on a pull-out couch.
[3] He started working at his family's bar at age 8, a business founded by their grandfather Andy Boehner in 1938.
[3] He has lived in Southwest Ohio his entire life. All but two of his siblings still live within a few miles of each other, two are unemployed and most of the others have blue-collar jobs.
[4]
He graduated from Cincinnati
Moeller High School in 1968, when U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War was at its peak. Boehner enlisted in the
United States Navy but was honorably discharged after eight weeks for medical reasons.
[5] He earned his
bachelor's degree in business from
Xavier University in Cincinnati in 1977, becoming the first person in his family to attend college, taking seven years as he held several jobs to pay for his education.
[3] He subsequently accepted a position with Nucite Sales, a small sales business in the packaging and plastics industry, where he eventually became president of the firm.
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