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To: JohnQ1
He needs — not wants, needs — adulation, and therefore has to tell everyone whatever he thinks his audience of the moment wants to hear

From the White House Press feed last night... I, I, I, me, my, I ...

There were some unexpectedly poignant moments. Most notable came during POTUS's tribute to Dave Brubeck.

"In the few weeks that I spent with my father as a child -- he came to visit me for about a month when I was young -- one of the things he did was to take me to my first jazz concert, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1971. And it was a Dave Brubeck concert. The world he opened up to a ten year old boy was spectacular."

There were also some unscripted moments with Mel Brooks, as when VPOTUS was announced and Mel Brooks shouted, "Wow!"

POTUS used a number of Brooks's best lines to get laughs. "We're reading back all your golden moments," POTUS said. "Unfortunately, many of the punch lines that have defined Mel Brooks's success cannot be repeated here."

"I told him that I went to Blazing Saddles, and he pointed out that, I think, according to the ratings, I should not have been allowed in the theater. I think that's true," POTUS said, adding with a smile, "I got a fake ID. (pause)_The statute of limitations has passed."

As a side note from Wikipedia-

Of his early childhood, Obama recalled, "That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind."[15] He described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage.[16] Reflecting later on his formative years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: "The opportunity that Hawaii offered—to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect—became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear."[17] Obama has also written and talked about using alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind."... -Wiki

-Examiner.com

28 posted on 12/07/2009 1:59:52 AM PST by WVKayaker (www.wherezobama.org / Obama's Excellent Adventure ...)
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To: WVKayaker
Note how MAO-bama has his hand on his stomach, not his heart, during the National Anthem. DiNiro is doing the crotch salute like a good commie.


68 posted on 12/07/2009 4:36:35 AM PST by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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