Posted on 11/30/2015 9:45:53 AM PST by Dave346
President Barack Obama was met with what appeared to be the U.N.'s version of the Oscars' "wrap-it-up" music Monday after he significantly overran his allotted time to speak at a global climate change summit.
Obama was one of 147 world leaders given a three-minute slot at the COP21 conference to outline their vision for the future of the planet.
The president of the free world, however, had other ideas.
More than eight and a half minutes into Obama's address â and with no sign he was stopping soon â three beeps sounded across the auditorium, clearly audible to everyone present and watching on TV.
Organizers did not respond to NBC News' requests for comment on the beeps, but the punctuating sounds appeared to be the conference's not-so-subtle attempt to get Obama to wrap it up.
The beeps continued every 30 seconds, but the president plowed on.
After 11 minutes, whoever was manning the "beep" button had clearly given up, and no more prompts were heard until Obama ended his epic discourse just shy of 14 minutes.
By the time he was done, he had spoken for nearly the length of time set aside for four world leaders. If all 147 speakers had taken as long as Obama, their combined addresses would have lasted more than 33 hours.
And it was not as if he went off on a tangent in the heat of the moment; his prepared remarks released by the White House ran to more than 1,700 words.
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He probably left after his speech. Once Obama speaks what else is there?
Obama loves the sound of his own voice.
The rude and arrogant never stops with this person.
He certainly thinks he’s SPECIAL, doesn’t he???
He doesn’t even follow the rules HE makes.
Going to interesting to see him exit the White House.
That’s why we call him the narcissist-in-chief.
Was everyone captivated and spellbound like we are with his every utterance?
Unplug his damn crutch TelePrompter.
A powerful man
When you don’t have anything sensible to say and you don’t know what you are talking about it is impossible to know when you are done.
I could not watch that long he makes me ill
Well, I’m certainly not going to listen to it. But I’m curious. How many times did he use the words I, me, my, and mine? Anybody care to do the dirty work, and find and check the transcript?
Clearly those beeps were to express the gratitude of the body to Obama’s comments. The longer the speech went on, the more beeps, the more gratitude.
The only downside was Obama stopped talking. It was only then that the beeps ended, which in the eyes of the world meant they wanted more.
That’s how the MSM will portray it tonight. And Harry Reid will blame the Republicans. And everything will be in balance again.
He does but since our country is going to pay for most of this fraud. I say heck with it.
Too bad they did not have an old style hook.
he changed water into wine, cured a leper, brought someone back from the dead,
he then levitated across the stage and disappeared in a puff of smoke.....
Wow nbc reported this. Notice he even pauses when the teleprompter tells him even though he is out of time. Doesn;t even bother him.
If he would have left out the “MEs” and “Is” the speech would have come in under 3 minutes.
But, hey he loves talking about his self to the point of being just a tad over bearing......
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