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Barack Obama Knows Now What It’s Like to Give a Speech Where Only One Man Claps
ijreview.com ^ | march 26, 2014 | mike miller

Posted on 03/26/2014 10:02:11 AM PDT by lowbridge

Okay, THAT was certainly embarrassing. At the end of a joint news conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Netherlands on Tuesday, the applause for Barack Obama came from a grand total of one guy. One.

After thanking the crowd twice for suffering through his boring, standard worn-out spiel, Obama looked around the room, expecting the usual fanfare and applause he receives from his loyal followers back home. It never came.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; markrutte; nato; netherlands; obama; zero
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To: Secret Agent Man

Did other speakers get a hand? Hope so. He seemed awkward immediately afterwards.


41 posted on 03/26/2014 11:03:15 AM PDT by Exit148
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To: lowbridge
The sound of one person clapping at the end of every episode of "Laugh-In" was more spirited that this!

Regards,

42 posted on 03/26/2014 11:06:36 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: lowbridge
Must have been a Zen audience.
43 posted on 03/26/2014 11:19:08 AM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: lowbridge

Maybe the Euros have less B.S. tolerance than the typical American leftist?..


44 posted on 03/26/2014 11:35:57 AM PDT by JSDude1 (Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
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To: lowbridge

Ahhhhh...NOW we know why today, when he gave some lame speech in Belgium, all the hostages were told to clap enthusiastically for the Dear Reader.

I saw that on CNN...lots of applause for the Prompter Reader.


45 posted on 03/26/2014 12:19:01 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: AD from SpringBay

They’ll just dub in a clap track...


46 posted on 03/26/2014 12:21:33 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: lowbridge

Perhaps some Grecian columns in the background would’ve helped?


47 posted on 03/26/2014 12:24:41 PM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: SoFloFreeper

It sounded like a bad, banal, trite, HS valedictory speech


48 posted on 03/26/2014 12:25:34 PM PDT by ken5050 (I fear a world run by adults who were never spanked as kids and got trophies just for participating)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Well, he did TRY to sell tickets for a small ballroom thingy at the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC a few years ago...Couldn’t do diddly and did not even fill the smaller room seating 400.... He has known a wee bit of M Bare Ass ment...(Of course I did not read that in the NYSlimes....


49 posted on 03/26/2014 12:29:59 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: SZonian

The clap track? That sounds more like Clinton than Great Leader.


50 posted on 03/26/2014 1:07:56 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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