After he gets back from his Hawaii vacation where he spoke at
Inouye's funeral:
What the hell, Barack? What did you mean by "America
has a place for everyone"? You know damn well THAT is
not true!
Posted on 12/22/2012 8:21:26 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama Uses Funeral Service to Talk About Himself Daniel Halper December 22, 2012 10:34 AM
President Barack Obama used the funeral for Hawaii senator Daniel Inouye to talk about himself. In the short 1,600 word speech, Obama used the word "my" 21 times, "me" 12 times, and "I" 30 times.
Obama's speech discussed how Inouye had gotten him interested in politics. "Danny was elected to the U.S. Senate when I was two years old," he said.
Speaking to the audience at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Obama talked about his family and their vacations. "Now, even though my mother and grandparents took great pride that they had voted for him, I confess that I wasn't paying much attention to the United States Senate at the age of four or five or six. It wasn't until I was 11 years old that I recall even learning what a U.S. senator was, or it registering, at least. It was during my summer vacation with my family -- my first trip to what those of us in Hawaii call the Mainland," said Obama.
So we flew over the ocean, and with my mother and my grandmother and my sister, who at the time was two, we traveled around the country. It was a big trip. We went to Seattle, and we went to Disneyland -- which was most important. We traveled to Kansas where my grandmother's family was from, and went to Chicago, and went to Yellowstone. And we took Greyhound buses most of the time, and we rented cars, and we would stay at local motels or Howard Johnson's. And if there was a pool at one of these motels, even if it was just tiny, I would be very excited. And the ice machine was exciting -- and the vending machine, I was really excited about that.
But this is at a time when you didn’t have 600 stations and 24 hours' worth of cartoons. And so at night, if the TV was on, it was what your parents decided to watch. And my mother that summer would turn on the TV every night during this vacation and watch the Watergate hearings. And I can't say that I understood everything that was being discussed, but I knew the issues were important. I knew they spoke to some basic way about who we were and who we might be as Americans.
And so, slowly, during the course of this trip, which lasted about a month, some of this seeped into my head. And the person who fascinated me most was this man of Japanese descent with one arm, speaking in this courtly baritone, full of dignity and grace. And maybe he captivated my attention because my mom explained that this was our senator and that he was upholding what our government was all about. Maybe it was a boyhood fascination with the story of how he had lost his arm in a war. But I think it was more than that.
Now, here I was, a young boy with a white mom, a black father, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. And I was beginning to sense how fitting into the world might not be as simple as it might seem. And so to see this man, this senator, this powerful, accomplished person who wasn't out of central casting when it came to what you'd think a senator might look like at the time, and the way he commanded the respect of an entire nation I think it hinted to me what might be possible in my own life.
Obama also mentioned the heroic life of Inouye. "And so we remember a man who inspired all of us with his courage, and moved us with his compassion, that inspired us with his integrity, and who taught so many of us -- including a young kid growing up in Hawaii –-- that America has a place for everyone," Obama concluded.
After he gets back from his Hawaii vacation where he spoke at
Inouye's funeral:
What the hell, Barack? What did you mean by "America
has a place for everyone"? You know damn well THAT is
not true!
You asked where Obama’s handlers were????? Election is over, he doesn’t need them anymore. GOD help our country from Obama.
Like Zelig, or like Forrest Gump?
Well, I for one am so very THANKFUL he spoke 63 times all about himself. He keeps doing this. It is just GREAT! I mean, how else would we ever even hear of the existence of this wonderfully beneficent Savior of the whole world?
nar·cis·sism [nahr-suh-siz-em] noun
1. inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
2. Psychoanalysis . erotic gratification derived from admiration of one’s own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.
People who were in office when I was 2 years old, I call Mr. not Danny.
And as usual he’s fabricating his life history. Inouye was elected in 1962 and sworn in in Jan. 1963 when 0 was 1 not 2 years old.
The Watergate hearings were in the summer of 1973 not 1972 when 0 was 11 years old. He’s told this story before in some speech or maybe it’s in one of his fictional biographies. I’m not sure any more.
His sister Maya did not turn 2 until August 15 1972 and in a picture I have seen of the two of them together on this trip she looks exactly the right age of an almost 2 year old.
When you put all of this together I don’t believe the whole Watergate-Inouye story. As most things in 0’s biography this doesn’t make sense.
narcissist communist with a god complex. a real bad combo.
“”It wasn’t until I was 11 years old that I recall even learning what a U.S. senator was, or it registering, at least. It was during my summer vacation with my family””
I don’t feel like forgiving him for not knowing how old he was when the hearings took place. He lies about what time the sun comes up in the morning.
Born 1961 + 11 = 1972
The Watergate break in was 1972 - hearings a year later.
So what WAS Granny watching on TV in the motel rooms? Maybe he’ll address this at the next funeral he goes to.
You beat me to it but only because I was waiting for my nails to dry....
“”how else would we ever even hear of the existence of this wonderfully beneficent Savior of the whole world?””
You forgot to add - “and the wonderful, close relationship he had with his family.”
THAT HAD to be the most dysfunctional family imaginable.
Yeah, like I car that his family rented a car and went to Disneyland? This is appropriate to shaere as part of a eulogy?
There is a cure for such malignant narcisism; a mental institution.
“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall hear all about me ... me ... me...”
Gospel of Barry
(and for those who missed the service, his office has available ipods loaded with his speeches. The perfect stocking stuffer for the marxists on your shopping list)
Well, this is nothing new. In his practice of never letting a crisis go to waste in order to exploit himself, he took over the Tucson Memorial for those slain in an attack and turned it into a political rally complete with campaign tee shirts folded over every seat in the auditorium.
Then, in more recent memory he hijacked the plane carrying the bodies of our slain Ambassador and Navy SEALs that was headed for the US morgue at Dover, Delaware. He diverted the plane to Andrews AFB which is closer to D.C. so he and Hillary could perform a photo op for the media without interrupting his scheduled visit with Olympic athletes at the White House later in the day.
He's something special, this Obama. (or, at least he thinks so!)
63/1600 words were about Barkey. That’s got to set a record for a eulogy.
They called the 80s the “me generation” but “I, I, I, me, me, me,” defines this presidency.
That can’t be a REAL picture, can it?
He had Christian universities cover up all Christian symbols and crosses when he spoke on their campuses....
I knew he tries to pretend some Christian faith but he’s been pretty consistent at insulting or attacking anything relating to the Church
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