In 1,600 word speech at the funeral for Senator Daniel Inouye, Obama mentions himself 63 times
President Barack Obama used the funeral for Hawaii senator Daniel Inouye to talk about himself. In the short 1,600 word speech, Obama used the word “my” 21 times, “me” 12 times, and “I” 30 times.
Obama’s speech discussed how Inouye had gotten him interested in politics. “Danny was elected to the U.S. Senate when I was two years old,” he said.
Speaking to the audience at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Obama talked about his family and their vacations. “Now, even though my mother and grandparents took great pride that they had voted for him, I confess that I wasn’t paying much attention to the United States Senate at the age of four or five or six. It wasn’t until I was 11 years old that I recall even learning what a U.S. senator was, or it registering, at least. It was during my summer vacation with my family — my first trip to what those of us in Hawaii call the Mainland,” said Obama.
Obama rambles on about his vacation, about Howard Johnsons and ice machines and being “a young boy with a white mom, a black father, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
How nice for Inouye’s family to be regaled by Obama’s self-serving monologue while the Senator’s corpse lays close by.
Obama’s world is one of how the whole of creation is shrunk down to his own personal frame.
This isn’t going to get any better.
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– He still seems to think he can manage the trick of being prez, and holding the Senate, but not being responsible for a single thing that happens.
– Its fucking amazing to watch.
Well, the Inouye family probably voted for Obama. So it’s hard to feel bad for people getting a strong dose of exactly what they asked for.
Should we at least be happy that he didn’t drag the dead bodies of the Newtown shooting into it (or did he? I just tune out everything O says).
This fits with newrouters link.
Yup, it can only be done if the little god-king gets 100 percent and everyone else gets nothing.
The fact that Boehner didn’t end the meeting, call a press conference, announce that there would be no deal because the President had made it clear that he wasn’t interested in negotiating one and so he was adjourning the House, is yet again more evidence for why Boehner must go.
Ernst
Boehner is still operating under the delusion that Obama is a good man who is just mistaken on what is the best path for America.
/michaelmedved
More like Boehner wants to make a deal becaues deal-making is what guys like Boehner do.
Eva Brann, on the superiority of the nowness of the now (i.e., Obazma’s “I, me, my”:
“First, a final decision was felt to have been reached in the quarrel, now apprehended as very weary, between the ancients and the moderns. Modernity was to prevail. Modern is a term going back to the sixth century,[18] coined from modo, “just now”. Just-nowness, contemporaneity, that is, a productive complex of secularism and science, of care for and competence in the present world — “present” in every sense — won the day. The moderns felt themselves to e wiser in the ways of the world than the ancients: “Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi [Temporal authority is worldly immaturity] — These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves. (Bacon, Advancement, I, v, 1.) In time there naturally surfaced a strain of breezy vandalism. Malebranche announced: “It is useless enough to those who live at present to know whether a man called Aristotle ever lived.” (The Search After Truth.) But by and large it was a grave and responsible superiority that characterized the bearing of modern authors toward the ancients.”
For what, in the ranking of superiority, could be higher than that of the current Determiner-in-Chief, author of all that is, let alone all that is good and right?
The Barack’s Funeral Oration: (“I” 30) (“me” 12) (“my” 21) = 63
The Beatles’ I Me Mine: (“I” 30) (“me” 37) (“mine” 29) = 96
For those of you keeping score at home.
Hit it, George.
Toby Keith says, “I wanna talk about me!”
If the little god-king had a son who was a country singer, his name would be Tofu Quiche.
Heh.
The parts just before and after what NR quoted are note worthy too.
Obama and the Democrats want to raise tax rates, period. The blather about revenue is just their normal cover story, one which has been shown to be false over and over as raising tax rates always results in lower revenue as the economy falls off the cliff and people shift to taking income in ways which are not taxed. This shift also lowers economic output as the tax avoidance things eat up resources that would otherwise go to building the economy.
Obama and the Democrats are not stupid and they know that what they are demanding will not help but will exacerbate the deficit.
They Don’t Care About That.
The point about raising tax rates is to give them more control over the private sector economy. This is all this whole kabuki theater is about for them, power, over the peons.
Boehner’s main problem is that he thinks that the Democrats want to fix the economy, as in repair it, they don’t. They want to “fix” it as in the usage of “I’m gonna fix you real good you bastard.” This is what the Tea Party people get that the Party leadership doesn’t.
Is this shit for real? Is that really the intellectual level Bumblefuck is operating on?
I thought it was just an act for his supporters, is he really that fucking stupid.
“This is what the Tea Party people get that the Party leadership doesn’t.”
The Party leadership gets it. They’re just squabbling with the Dems over how to divide the serfs after it’s over.
Yes. And so are they. For that matter, so is Boehner.
If he had half a brain cell, Weepy would have left one of those White House meetings in Secret Service custody with one of Obama’s ears in his teeth.