Posted on 11/30/2015 11:17:58 AM PST by grundle
President Barack Obama was met with what appeared to be the U.N.'s version of the Oscars' "wrap-it-up" music Monday after he significantly overran his allotted time to speak at a global climate change summit.
Obama was one of 147 world leaders given a three-minute slot at the COP21 conference to outline their vision for the future of the planet.
The president of the free world, however, had other ideas.
More than eight and a half minutes into Obama's address — and with no sign he was stopping soon — three beeps sounded across the auditorium, clearly audible to everyone present and watching on TV.
Organizers did not respond to NBC News' requests for comment on the beeps, but the punctuating sounds appeared to be the conference's not-so-subtle attempt to get Obama to wrap it up.
"I've come here personally, as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our responsibility in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it," Obama told the summit.
The beeps continued every 30 seconds, but the president plowed on.
"One of the enemies that we'll be fighting at this conference is cynicism, the notion we can't do anything about climate change," he continued, seemingly undeterred by the regular interruptions over his speech.
He called for the talks to work toward "a world that is worthy of our children" and also took time to pay tribute to the victims of this month's Paris attacks.
After 11 minutes, whoever was manning the "beep" button had clearly given up, and no more prompts were heard until Obama ended his epic discourse just shy of 14 minutes.
By the time he was done, he had spoken for nearly the length of time set aside for four world leaders. If all 147 speakers had taken as long as Obama, their combined addresses would have lasted more than 33 hours.
And it was not as if he went off on a tangent in the heat of the moment; his prepared remarks released by the White House ran to more than 1,700 words.
Me me me.
Completely oblivious to everyone else in the room. I can only imagine what the adults in the room were saying after this. No wonder the Chinese put him aside at the “kids’ table” in that one group photo of diplomats a couple years ago.
Gee, if only he’d stop spouting so much hot air, maybe the US wouldn’t be quite the offender...
Narcissists love the sound of their own voices and cannot conceive of the notion that anyone else finds them boring and stupid.
They should have used the vaudeville hook in addition to the buzzer to pull him off center stage.
Turn off the mic and pop the trap door
They should position a 55-gallon drum filled with the most vile substance imaginable, over the speaker’s position. Perhaps use a traveling crane to follow him.
After the first set of beeps, the drum is emptied on the speaker’s head.
Seriously????
Pig nose there has no clue of Arctic and Subarctic geography.
It’s the United States that can’t be special in Obama’s pinhead. Only the magnificent Obama who came to remake the whole world in his image is special. Even the US networks have learned to break away from his narcissistic din before he proved himself to be psychotic.
Turn off the mic and pop the trap door only after the rope is placed tightly around his neck!!!
The Unknown Comic made more sense anyway!
Possibly the biggest blowhard ever sired by the Democrats.
“You Talk Too Much” - Run DMC
Shut up!!!
You talk too much...
You talk too much...
You talk too much...
You talk too much...
Hey! You over there, I know about your kind
You’re like the Independent Network News on Channel 9
Everywhere that you go, no matter where you at
I said you talk about this, and you talk about that
When the cat took your tongue, I say you took it right back
Your mouth is so big, one bite would kill a Big Mac
You talk too much You never shut up
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never shut up
You talk about people, you don’t even know
And you talk about places, you NEVER go
You talk about your girl, from head to toe
I said your mouth’s moving fast, and your brain’s moving slow
You talk too much You never shut up!!
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never shut up
You’re the instigator, the orator of the town
You’re the worst when you converse, just a big mouth clown
You talk when you’re awake, I heard you talk when you sleep
Has anyone ever told you, that talk is cheap
You talk too much You never shut, up!!
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!!!
Talking is the one thing, that you can do best
You told the cavity creeps, to watch out for Crest
You never have the story, right and exact
And then you always try to bore me, with your yakkity yak
You talk too much And then you never shut up
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!!!
Everyday you are out fighting someone in the street
And you’re always fighting someone you know ya can’t beat
Then you wonder how, you got in this mess
Just think of what you said, then take a guess
You talk too much You never shut up!
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!!!
You’re always spreading rumors, whether bad or good
You’re the damn Walter Cronkite of the neighborhood
The Barbara Walters, and the Howard Cosell
You always come around, with a story to tell
You talk too much And then you never shut up
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!!!
Said it’s everybody’s business that you love to mind
And talkin to you, is like dropping a dime
You’re spreading the word, like it is your job
You should be a stool pigeon, who works for the mob
You talk too much And you never shut up
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never shut up!
A big blabbermouth, that’s what you are
If you were a talk show host, you’d be a star
I said your mouth is big, size extra large
And when you open it, it’s like my garage
You talk too much And then you never shut up
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never shut up
You always like to gossip, just like a girl
You talk so damn much, it’s outta this world
When you’re reincarnated, in your second life
You won’t be a man, you’ll be a nagging wife
You talk too much Then you never shut up
He said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!!!
SHUT UP!!!
SHUT UP!!!
Twenty-five hours, eight days a week
Thirteen months outta year, is when you speak
I’m tired of listening to the garbage you talk
Why don’t you find a short pier, and take a long walk
You talk too much Then you never shut up!
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!!!
You talk too much You could be, out of breath
You talk too much Man you naggin me to death
You talk too much Tired of hearing you speak
You talk too much Eight days a week
You talk too much Then you never shut up
I said you talk too much Why don’t you ever SHUT UP!!!
You talk too much Then you never shut up!
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!!!
Since we going to pay the majority of this travesty, I could care less how long he talks. We have to begin remembering that the United States is number 1 in the World again. We have really lost that in our country which is really sad. The liberals wants us to be embarrassed by being number 1 and it looks like even conservatives are beginning to believe that we should not be number 1. Very sad. In the 40’s Conservatives never would have allowed that BS to happen.
At three minutes, power should have been cut to the mike. If it were Trump, or any other nation’s leader, I’m SURE they would have been cut off.
The latest in the "Dr. No" line of clothing?
BO is there to bad mouth the U.S. And he will get it done.
Perfect. It’s about 0bama, even if they had never heard of 0bama when they wrote it.
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