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.
I absolutely despise every person that voted for that fool.
Title this: Obama makes up a new career story.
If America was divided by the last election, this one is even more divisive.
This was my initial thought. We were given the “I was raised by a poor single mother who struggled to put food on the table” routine. Now we hear about a month long trip to the mainland, three adults, two chidren, flying by jet and sightseeing all over the US. Which is it Barack, privileged or poor?
And he said "we" 11 times.
Yeah well he still isn’t talking about how he got to college, who paid for it and was he a foreign student.
He didn’t say who paid for his Pakistani trip with his Homo room mate either.
Sadly, Dems have a long history now of using the sorrow and misery of death as a political rally. Hate, terror and sadness feed the political zeal of leftists.
To save money, they have mostly been closed down for a couple of decades.
He sat on the Senate panel questioning LTC North after the Contra Affair. Apparently he took some sort of offense that North appeared (appropriately) in full uniform. Ollie North had medals up to his shoulder blade. Well, Inouye for some obscure reason showed up the next day in civilian clothing, but with all of his medals from WWII pinned to his business suit.
No, Inouye wasn't all there, used to be nicknamed "InNoWay,"
As I indicated: "Out to pasture."
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