Obama's farewell address longer than Reagan's, Clinton's and George W. Bush's combined

The Washington Examiner ^ | January 10, 2017 | Madeleine Morgenstern

[yoe]

Video.

Clinton spoke for 7 minutes, 25 seconds; Reagan spoke for 20 minutes, 42 seconds; and George W. Bush spoke for 13 minutes, 7 seconds. Obama spoke for 51 minutes, 10 seconds, nearly 10 minutes longer than the other three put together.

Obama also broke from the tradition of delivering his final speech from the White House. Clinton and Reagan both spoke from the Oval Office, and George W. Bush spoke in front of a small audience in the White House East Room; the Obama administration distributed public tickets for his speech at the McCormick Place convention center in Chicago. Obama spoke to a crowd of 18,000.

[yoe]

Where was young Sasha during her father's speech....

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s almost impossible to get a community agitator to shut up.

[tomkat]

Length of parting speech* inversely proportional to humility.


*thank God !

[ErikJohnsky]

why couldn’t he give it in the Oval Office like previous presidents, including Bush II, Bill Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Carter, ... did???

Hussein, get over yourself: the only ones who think you’re great because of your skin color are the leftist identity politics type. ie not the American mainstream!

[Texas Fossil]

And nobody I know listened to the Lying Commie B-tard.

[delete306]

His ego is bigger than theirs combined too.

[TigersEye]

Be thankful, peasants, that it wasn't longer than the farewell addresses of ALL former presidents combined!

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[Lurkinanloomin]

Well, he had a lot more self-admiration to fit in.......

[bgill]

Well, yeah. All those ums, me, hmm and I take up time.

Greatly surprised Malia was there but Sasha was awol. Looks like he’s lost control of both.

[Minutemen]

Obama got his moneys worth of free golfing vacations the past 8 years. Us tax payers do expect a grand farewell speech too!

[bigbob]

And his ego is bigger than all 45 predecessors, combined!

[EQAndyBuzz]

Notice how all Marxists feel it is necessary to talk for hours on end? Reason is it takes that long to tell the same lie enough times in different ways so the useful idiots accept the talk as true.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I’ve noticed through the years that Obama has more of a ‘thing’ for the other one. Sasha.....not so much. He rarely shows affection for her.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I can see him out doing Bush but Clinton?

[originalbuckeye]

I’m sure he wanted one more ride on Air Force One, at our expense.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Good-Bye!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Good-Bye! (with violin too)

[SaveFerris]

Clearly, Obama is the most important pResident in all those years.

I’m sure some of his speeches are already available in wonderful rap form.

[HiTech RedNeck]

“Goodbye to hope! Goodbye! Goodbye!”

[Rollee]

All I want to hear from him is “yippity, yippity, yippity, that’s all, folks!”