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Obama’s Speech To The American Legion Was Painfully Awkward [VIDEO]
The Daily Caller ^ | 8-26-14 | Brendan Bordelon

Posted on 08/26/2014 3:44:57 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

It wasn’t exactly the roaring, adoring, campaign-style crowd President Barack Obama is accustomed to.

On Tuesday, the president spoke to the American Legion’s national convention, facing a crowd of veterans deeply concerned about widespread corruption at the Veterans Administration and the resultant deaths of some veterans awaiting health care.

So when Obama began by lecturing the veterans about cynicism and explaining his most recent foreign policy choices — instead of addressing the VA crisis — the audience clearly wasn’t pleased.

Fox News cameras captured a sea of blank or frowning faces looking silently back at the president as he paused for failed applause line after failed applause line.

Obama’s assertion of the indispensability of American leadership worldwide failed to merit a single clap. And when he outlined the “progress” made in Afghanistan, the president resolutely paused for several agonizing seconds until the veterans provided their tepid support.

He didn’t fare much better once he finally reached the VA scandal, with halfhearted applause accompanying his promises to make things right at the corruption-plagued agency.

“We need to make the system work!” the president declared, as the camera caught one veteran turn skeptically to another, open his mouth as if to speak, then turn back and continue to listen disinterestedly.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: americanlegion; obama; obamaspeech; tepidresponse; va; vets
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To: Vermont Lt

I thought the same thing. He looks ill.


21 posted on 08/26/2014 5:32:02 PM PDT by Josa
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Why would the American Legion invite this traitor?


22 posted on 08/26/2014 6:50:02 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: keat

He truly hates these people.

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That must be why he starts out the speech by giving them “the finger”. Outrageous.


23 posted on 08/26/2014 6:53:01 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Future Snake Eater

I went to the site so I could see the “finger” thing. You are absolutely correct. The jerk surely did that on purpose.


24 posted on 08/26/2014 6:54:25 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: keat
He looks so pi$$ed he's not getting the adoration he deserves.

GOOD!

25 posted on 08/26/2014 7:28:51 PM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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To: steve86

Next time he hold one of these snake-oil shows, everyone really needs to stand up and turn their backs too him. He would probably just LOSE IT at that point. LOL!


26 posted on 08/26/2014 7:30:37 PM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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To: Bigg Red
Why would the American Legion invite this traitor?

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Obama could care less if these veterans like him or not.

Why? Because in a few days Obama will sign an executive order granting legal status to 5,000.000+ illegal aliens, and he knows that these 5,000,000+ illegals will love him so much. Insanity. Insanity. God help us all.

27 posted on 08/26/2014 9:36:06 PM PDT by john mirse
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To: SpaceBar

What you saw was a homosexual man on a massive dose of Xanax, or other anti-anxiety medication. Ask a doctor.

He phoned in this speech from left field. There is only one honorable way out for this fellow: resignation. And yes, Biden would be better.


28 posted on 08/26/2014 10:31:43 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Only a specific Program, Plan, and Leadership will end the chaos of dysfunctional government.)
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To: Future Snake Eater

What would happen if the entire audience scratched their nose with their middle finger whenever Obama did that?

The picture would be priceless.


29 posted on 08/26/2014 11:37:54 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: john mirse

“Obama could care less if these veterans like him or not.”

I’m surprised he took the time to fly to Charlotte and make the speech. What was his real agenda in going?


30 posted on 08/27/2014 2:21:56 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
“We need to make the system work!” the president declared

"I will it so!," King Obama continued.

It's like something out of Aesop's fables. I'm guessing that Obama left the bubble against Jarrett's orders. "The peasants like me. They really like me! Here, I'll show you..."

31 posted on 08/27/2014 2:39:27 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Veterans like myself understand this punk ass magic negro is anti American and anti U.S. Military.


32 posted on 08/27/2014 3:54:10 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: Steven Tyler

What? No they’re not...this was an audience of veterans.


33 posted on 08/27/2014 5:54:57 AM PDT by sandboxshooter (Iraq, Afghanistan, War)
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To: john mirse

...and he knows that these 5,000,000+ illegals will love him so much. Insanity.

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Not insanity, FRiend. He wants them here and the real people in power, Obama’s bosses, want them here because they will complete the work that the left has doggedly pursued for many decades now, i.e., the total collapse of our civilization.

Say good-bye to the rule of law and to civic virtue.


34 posted on 08/27/2014 6:06:40 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: keat
Looks like the crowd came disguised as empty seats.
35 posted on 08/27/2014 6:12:01 AM PDT by kitchen (Even the walls have ears.)
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To: Bigg Red

Doesn’t he do it at most speeches? Seems I read he did it at the beginning if the Veteran speech.


36 posted on 08/28/2014 2:18:38 PM PDT by Exit148
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To: Exit148

No, I think he reserves that finger gesture for certain times. If he did it all of the time, it would be different. Of course, you would expect one of his handlers to point it out if it was just some sort of nervous habit. Pretty sure he has done it just a few times.

BTW, how are you, my FRiend? I remember you from our gatherings in 2000. “Get out of Cheney’s House!” I sat across from you at dinner at that Italian restaurant the night before Bush’s first inauguration.


37 posted on 08/28/2014 6:02:11 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Bigg Red

Just fine my dear FReeper FRiend! We Freeped at quite a few things together during those days. Did we ever think things could come to the state it is now? Sigh.

I googled “Obama - finger” and got a lot of sites with pictures and comments. Of course it would not be covered by the MSM. Another sigh!

FReep on!


38 posted on 08/28/2014 6:42:08 PM PDT by Exit148
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