Posted on 01/11/2017 3:20:29 PM PST by yoe
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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.
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let the family go away in peace and form new bonds
Obama knows he needs to provide a constant stream of self-justifying blather to the public to keep them anaesthetized and convinced of his great accomplishments and wonderfulness - that ends in ten days and he’s terrified that finally people are going to wake up and see him for what he is - he’s trying to load them up with rhetoric that will last a while before he has to depart......
Obama is so magnificent he has a lot to say about himself.
Or, like his _Residency, it just seemed unbearably long...
and said almost nothing.. and what he did say was a lie.
I don’t listen to jOkeass. He says lots of words, but, he says nothing.
Quite a feat when you consider the words "I" and "me" are so short.
That’s cuz he’s not her father..
I wonder how many violent crimes happened in the city during the speech.
Couldn't even come close to a Trump set of numbers - as the first Black President and in a place like Chicago which represents those who love him the most....and at such a historic event.
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