Posted on 09/17/2018 5:14:25 AM PDT by sevinufnine
There were times during a Thursday rally Barack Obama couldn’t help but talk about himself, even though he was supposed to be talking about other people. There were other times he could barely talk at all. “I see you,” Obama started, pointing into the audience. “Let, let, let, let, let me just say these, these are friends of mine,” Obama said, stumbling over his words, “I admit I am biased.” Several times, Obama called Cordray and Sutton a “friend of mine. I have worked with them,” he said, keeping the focus on himself.
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He found a way to make a heckler about himself, too. “I always miss having at least one heckler up in here, I can never really hear what they’re saying, but I appreciate the exercise of free speech,” he said. At one point, The Chosen One devolved into a stuttering mess, saying, “We, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we spend…”
“I know that sometimes, when I was president, even when I was a candidate, folks would say, ‘Barack, you’re talking too long. You’re like too professorial, you’re explaining stuff too much,'” Obama said people told him. “I know, but sometimes things are complicated and I didn’t, I, I, I, and I was confident…” he continued.
Making a pass at talking about the candidates, Obama said, “And that’s why I’m here. Not just because I love Ohio, although I do. And not just because I love Cleveland,” he said.
More than half way into his remarks, he finally said, “I want to talk a little bit about Rich just for a second.” And he was meaning that pretty literally, as he quickly shifted back to talking about himself, and musing about his own opinions. “I, I, I can’t, I can’t even beat Sasha at Jeopardy,” he said, getting way off the subject and talking about his daughter and the game show.
About 30 minutes into his remarks, Obama said, “Now listen, I know it’s hot so I gotta wrap up.” But he just kept going. “But here’s something I said last week that I want to repeat,” he said, before later saying virtually the same thing. “I said this last week, I want to repeat it,” he said.
All told, Obama talked about himself 79 times during the roughly 40 minute speech, saying “I” 66 times, “Me” 5 times, “My” 5 times, and “Mine” 3 times.
Last week, Obama gave two speeches in which he mentioned himself a combined 168 times — 63 times in California and 102 times in Illinois.
I, I, I, I.....couldn’t be happier this man is “campaigning” for the Dems.
Ya, but I’d prefer he’s simply go away for good.
Obama’s self-reverential “comeback” speeches are crammed with revisionism. Valerie musta burned the midnight oil trying to paper over Obama’s most egregious acts.
The most jaw-dropping contention was backtracking his record on free speech: “I complained plenty about Fox News,” the scandal-ridden Obama explained, “but you never heard me threaten to shut them down, or call them ‘enemies of the people.’”
N-o-o-o-o, Obama didnt do that....he just unleashed the full force of the DOJ, in the person of AG Eric Holder to pounce on Fox reporter James Rosen ......
AND to intimidate Rosen’s family.
Holder and Obama issued a court order for Fox News reporter James Rosen’s emails,
labeling Rosen a criminal “co-conspirator” under The Espionage Act.
theguardian.com
Circa 2013
The Justice Department did more than seize a Fox News reporter’s emails while suggesting he was a criminal “co-conspirator” in a leak case — it did so under one of the most serious wartime laws in America, the Espionage Act. It is now well known that the Obama justice department has prosecuted more government leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined - in fact, double the number of all such prior prosecutions. But as last week’s controversy over the Obama DOJ’s pursuit of the phone records of AP reporters illustrated, this obsessive fixation in defense of secrecy also targets, and severely damages, journalists specifically and the news-gathering process in general.
New revelations emerged in the Washington Post that are perhaps the most extreme yet when it comes to the DOJ’s attacks on press freedoms. It involves the prosecution of State Department adviser Stephen Kim, a naturalized citizen from South Korea who was indicted in 2009 for allegedly telling Fox News’ chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen, that US intelligence believed North Korea would respond to additional UN sanctions with more nuclear tests - something Rosen then reported. Kim did not obtain unauthorized access to classified information, nor steal documents, nor sell secrets, nor pass them to an enemy of the US. Instead, the DOJ alleges that he merely communicated this innocuous information to a journalist - something done every day in Washington - and, for that, this arms expert and long-time government employee faces more than a decade in prison for “espionage”.
The focus of the Post’s report is that the DOJ’s surveillance of Rosen, the reporter, extended far beyond even what they did to AP reporters. The FBI tracked Rosen’s movements in and out of the State Department, traced the timing of his calls, and - most amazingly - obtained a search warrant to read two days worth of his emails, as well as all of his emails with Kim. In this case, said the Post, “investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.” It added that “court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist”.
But what makes this revelation particularly disturbing is that Obama’s DOJ, in order to get this search warrant, insisted that Fox’s Rosen - a journalist - committed serious crimes. The DOJ specifically argued that by encouraging his source to disclose classified information - something investigative journalists do every day - Rosen himself broke the law. Describing an affidavit from FBI agent Reginald Reyes filed by the DOJ, the Post reports [emphasis added]:
“Reyes wrote that there was evidence Rosen had broken the law, ‘at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator’. That fact distinguishes his case from the probe of the AP, in which the news organization is not the likely target. Using italics for emphasis, Reyes explained how Rosen allegedly used a ‘covert communications plan’ and quoted from an e-mail exchange between Rosen and Kim that seems to describe a secret system for passing along information. . . .
However, it remains an open question whether it’s ever illegal, given the First Amendment’s protection of press freedom, for a reporter to solicit information. No reporter, including Rosen, has been prosecuted for doing so.”
Under US law, it is not illegal to publish classified information. That fact, along with the First Amendment’s guarantee of press freedoms, is what has prevented the US government from ever prosecuting journalists for reporting on what the US government does in secret. This newfound theory of the Obama DOJ - that a journalist can be guilty of crimes for “soliciting” the disclosure of classified information - is a means for circumventing those safeguards and criminalizing the act of investigative journalism itself.
These latest revelations show that this is not just a theory but one put into practice, b/c the Obama DOJ submitted court documents accusing a journalist of committing crimes by doing this.—SNIP—
The first item is quite true, the last two, not so much.
This feckless, narcissistic POS stuttered his way through 2 terms. Is anyone surprised that is only continues?
He knows the hammer is about to drop!
“This feckless, narcissistic POS stuttered his way through 2 terms. Is anyone surprised that is only continues?”
I was unable to listen to ANY of Obama’s speeches. My husband would because he said it was important to know what the nut job was up to...but I couldn’t abide it. The “great orator” couldn’t string a sentence together that a middle school English teacher would let her students get away with. And the constant “I” this and “me” that....arghhhhh!!!
True...I doubt he could explain anything without a teleprompter.
Was he drawing flies to his face again?
He, he, he, he needs to be locked I GITMO as an enemy combatant where he, he, he, he can talk to himself all day long without any repercussions.
Wonder if Trump called him and told him that Lisa Paige gave a video deposition under oath and revealed the whole criminal plot and Obama’s personal involvement. McCabe and Comey are flipping as well.
You know, buncha pompous windbags that don't accomplish anything other than to line their own pockets with other people's money. He's uniquely qualified for that job.
This report is interesting, but not really news. Had he told the truth it would have been blockbuster news!
One unfortunate looking man, ain’t he?
Obviously not in his mind.
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