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Slate to Obama: Enough about you, already
Hotair ^ | 12/22/2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 12/22/2012 7:09:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Barack Obama flew to Hawaii this week after fiscal-cliff negotiations stalled, in part for a Christmas vacation, and in part to attend the memorial service for the late Senator Daniel Inouye. Obama offered a eulogy for Inouye, which usually means offering insights into the deceased’s life and character. Instead, as is Obama’s wont, he talked more about himself than the man whose life was supposed to be the center of attention.

Even Slate noticed the problem, and blasted Obama for his narcissistic streak:

Someone needs to tell Barack Obama—it must get particularly confusing this time of year—that his own birth is not Year One, the date around which all other events are understood. His much-noted, self-referential tic was on cringe-worthy display Friday when the president gave his eulogy for the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, who served in Congress for half a century representing Obama’s birth state of Hawaii.

Inouye was a Japanese-American war hero (he lost an arm in World War II, destroying his dream of becoming a surgeon), and as a senator he served on the Watergate committee, helped rewrite our intelligence charter after scandals, and was chairman of the Senate committee that investigated the Iran-Contra affair. It’s the kind of material any eulogist could use to give a moving sense of the man and his accomplishment. But President Barack Obama’s remarks at Inouye’s funeral service were a bizarre twirl around his own personal Kodak carousel.

This comes as no surprise to readers of Hot Air; it was a recurring theme in the Obamateurism series. For that matter, so is Obama’s odd concept of math:

Obama likes to see events through the lens of his own life’s chronology. Thus we learn that Inouye was elected to the Senate when Obama was 2 years old.

Er, that’s not true. Obama was born in August 1961, and Inouye won election to the Senate in November 1962, taking office in January 1963. Obama wasn’t two years old, not even when rounding the numbers; he was one year old when Inouye won his Senate election. (At least this isn’t as bad as Obama’s Selma math.)

Emily Yoffe continues:

Obama acknowledges that as a young person he was unaware of politics, and thus Inouye. But then something important happened that made young Obama pay attention to the first man to be elected to Congress from Hawaii after it joined the union. When Obama was 11 years old he went on vacation with his family, and those paying their respects to Inouye got to hear a long description of this amazing trip, from Seattle to Kansas, from Disneyland to Yellowstone. They heard of the young Obama’s happiness whenever the motel had a pool or an ice machine. And finally, as the people must have been twitching in the pews wondering where this was all going, we get back to the late senator.

It turns out the Watergate hearings were taking place at that time, too, and Obama’s mother watched them in their various hotel rooms. It surprised young Obama to see that a man of Japanese descent was a senator. Little did most people know that the most important thing to come out of the Watergate hearings was that Obama, with his mixed-race background, saw in Inouye a hint of “what might be possible in my own life.” That Obama in some way may have been inspired to a political career by a man who overcame prejudice and later became Obama’s colleague is a fine point to make. But it is an incidental one to the life being celebrated.

It’s fine to relate personal stories during eulogies, but they should have the deceased as the focal point, not the eulogist. As Yoffe notes, this is a constant theme for Obama, whose speeches contain more self-referential pronouns than any of his predecessors of recent memory. Even the President who earned the monicker “The Big Me,” Bill Clinton, looks positively humble in comparison.

We’ll include this one in the OOTY polls next week, to be sure.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0dipstick; bho44; enoughalready; inouye; narcissist; obama; slate; theblackjesus
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To: adorno
But, the democrats will one day, be clamoring for his face on Mt. Rushmore, declaring that, adding his face to the collection there, will be another step towards the healing of America’s past as a racist nation.

Add? More likely he'll have it re-carved so his is the one and only face on the monument.

21 posted on 12/22/2012 8:04:22 PM PST by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: JohnBrowdie
Obama told reporters earlier in the day that Republicans were focused too much on besting him personally rather than thinking about what's best for the country. . . .

As a general rule, any time Democrats accuse Republicans of doing something wrong, it is because they are already doing it themselves.

22 posted on 12/22/2012 8:05:25 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: SeekAndFind

0bama doesn’t know any other subject than himself.


23 posted on 12/22/2012 8:11:06 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Even the President who earned the monicker “The Big Me,” Bill Clinton,


That’s one moniker - no ‘c’ - I’ve never heard for Sink.


24 posted on 12/22/2012 8:12:10 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Nepeta
I wonder if he has thought of issuing calendars that begin in 1961?

And we'll celebrate Christmas in August...

25 posted on 12/22/2012 8:14:56 PM PST by okie01
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To: adorno
RE: But, the democrats will one day, be clamoring for his face on Mt. Rushmore, declaring that, adding his face to the collection there, will be another step towards the healing of America’s past as a racist nation.

Are they going to paint the face black?


26 posted on 12/22/2012 8:15:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Flick Lives

27 posted on 12/22/2012 8:17:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Flick Lives
More likely he'll have it re-carved so his is the one and only face on the monument.


28 posted on 12/22/2012 8:19:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Thus we learn that Inouye was elected to the Senate when Obama was 2 years old. Er, that’s not true. Obama was born in August 1961

It is interesting that everytime hussein makes an historical reference to his age, he's always older than that fake bc shows. Even his teahers say he was taller and looked older than he should have been. But nothing to see, move along because he WON.

29 posted on 12/22/2012 8:32:14 PM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nicolai!


30 posted on 12/22/2012 8:36:43 PM PST by wesagain (The God (Elohim) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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To: adorno

There won’t be enough rock on Rushmore to fit those big effing Dumbo Ears of his.


31 posted on 12/22/2012 9:11:54 PM PST by Artcore
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To: txhurl

I don’t remember that one. IIRC however, Monica referred to B.J. as “the big he”.


32 posted on 12/22/2012 9:15:23 PM PST by printhead (Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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To: Artcore
The sculptor will have to consider wind loadings when he carves Lincoln into a representation of Dear Leader's noble visage.

Think of all the extra concrete that will have to be added to make the Great Father twice the size of the rest of the faces...

33 posted on 12/22/2012 9:30:09 PM PST by jonascord (Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star!)
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To: Nepeta

” There may be a LOT of things he doesn’t really know for sure about himself. “

You mean like who his REAL father is. Stuff like that! He’s probably scared to have his DNA done. The truth might hurt! Shoot, it’s likely his mother didn’t know either.


34 posted on 12/22/2012 9:41:52 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Artcore

“There won’t be enough rock on Rushmore to fit those big effing Dumbo Ears of his.”

Rock? They are out trying to find a big lump of coal to haul out there and hoist up. “If it ain’t Black, it ain’t Barak”


35 posted on 12/22/2012 9:47:40 PM PST by vette6387
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To: EEGator
pretty much...
36 posted on 12/22/2012 9:53:33 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: adorno

In St. Louis (North), there’s a building with a large mural of Dear Leader, chin in air, like he’s about to reveal an “S” on his chest. Sickening.


37 posted on 12/22/2012 10:26:19 PM PST by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO)
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38 posted on 12/22/2012 10:38:48 PM PST by Nachum (The List is off the Google blacklist- www.nachumlist.com)
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39 posted on 12/22/2012 10:39:47 PM PST by Nachum (The List is off the Google blacklist- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: okie01
I wonder if he has thought of issuing calendars that begin in 1961?

And we'll celebrate Christmas in August...


I'm sure Bill Ayers could write some Obama nativity carols. There are people who already think of him as divine.

Just remember the kiddies singing Obama hymns in 2008 if you think it's impossible.
40 posted on 12/23/2012 12:01:20 AM PST by Nepeta
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