Certainly it was an act.
Still. When you are President, part of the job is keeping your emotions in check.
You stay cool under pressure or you aren't cut out for the job.
All the things he's done and he cries over this?
How many children has he ordered drone strikes on? Think he cries over them?
After his speech concerning James Foley's beheading he golfed.
Although Obama called Foley’s parents to convey his condolences, neither the president nor anyone from the White House attended the journalist's memorial service in New Hampshire, even though three White House aides were dispatched to Ferguson, Missouri to attend the funeral of a black teen killed by a police officer.
We know what his priorities are.