Obama Uses Funeral Service to Talk About Himself

[CuteOldGuy]

This guy is the consummate narcissist. What a buffoon! How can anyone take him seriously is beyond me.

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.

So we flew over the ocean, and with my mother and my grandmother and my sister, who at the time was two, we traveled around the country. It was a big trip. We went to Seattle, and we went to Disneyland -- which was most important. We traveled to Kansas where my grandmother's family was from, and went to Chicago, and went to Yellowstone. And we took Greyhound buses most of the time, and we rented cars, and we would stay at local motels or Howard Johnson's. And if there was a pool at one of these motels, even if it was just tiny, I would be very excited. And the ice machine was exciting -- and the vending machine, I was really excited about that.

But this is at a time when you didn’t have 600 stations and 24 hours' worth of cartoons. And so at night, if the TV was on, it was what your parents decided to watch. And my mother that summer would turn on the TV every night during this vacation and watch the Watergate hearings. And I can't say that I understood everything that was being discussed, but I knew the issues were important. I knew they spoke to some basic way about who we were and who we might be as Americans.

And so, slowly, during the course of this trip, which lasted about a month, some of this seeped into my head. And the person who fascinated me most was this man of Japanese descent with one arm, speaking in this courtly baritone, full of dignity and grace. And maybe he captivated my attention because my mom explained that this was our senator and that he was upholding what our government was all about. Maybe it was a boyhood fascination with the story of how he had lost his arm in a war. But I think it was more than that.

Now, here I was, a young boy with a white mom, a black father, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. And I was beginning to sense how fitting into the world might not be as simple as it might seem. And so to see this man, this senator, this powerful, accomplished person who wasn't out of central casting when it came to what you'd think a senator might look like at the time, and the way he commanded the respect of an entire nation I think it hinted to me what might be possible in my own life.

Obama also mentioned the heroic life of Inouye. "And so we remember a man who inspired all of us with his courage, and moved us with his compassion, that inspired us with his integrity, and who taught so many of us -- including a young kid growing up in Hawaii –-- that America has a place for everyone," Obama concluded.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...lf_690960.html

[Guest040616]

Somebody needs to get a life!

[Yssup Rider]

what a dick you are Whiny.

You obviously don't jack shit about speech writing and even less about writing headlines.

Anti-American scumbag!

[CuteOldGuy]

I'm not the one who spoke almost entirely about himself at a funeral, Obama did. Blame him, not me.

[Yssup Rider]

I blame you for being an Anti-American imbecile. You'd piss on your own mother if she didn't hate Obama, America and your fellow citizens...

Worthless, hateful rhetoric.

[CuteOldGuy]

Hmmm . . . Taking a stand for freedom, liberty and limited government is now anti-American. I see. And criticizing a President is also anti-American. Thank you, Comrade Assup!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxmpTMGhU0

[Little Stevie]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

I'm not the one who spoke almost entirely about himself at a funeral, Obama did. Blame him, not me.

COF, you say that after posting over 15,000 worthless posts trying to SELL your POS viewpoint?

Guess what?

Both you and Ron Paul are LOSERS! At least Paul supports his family from the nepotism he uses to employ his relatives for all of his many failed Presidential runs!

I'm sort of happy he skims money from his dumb ass followers!

[CuteOldGuy]

Not trying to "sell" anything, Stevie. Just making a point. Now lay off the caffeine, it is really making you sound stupid tonight.

[french cannon]

thats the best you could come up with? nitpicking a speech? ur a loser dude. ur the type of person that scares people from voting republican. narrow minded idiot

[Seedy]

You bunch of pied piper led jackoffs, odumbo is the biggest anti-american COCKSUCKER, and the biggest lying, traitorous piece of shit to ever walk the earth.

[CuteOldGuy]

I'm not a Republican, either. You don't have to be a Republican to think that President Obama is a narcissistic, dishonest, and corrupt President.

And no, I've come up with a lot better. Just review the threads. I've got lots of good stuff here.

[Little Stevie]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

I'm not a Republican, either. You don't have to be a Republican to think that President Obama is a narcissistic, dishonest, and corrupt President.

No, you just have to be mistaken and stupid. However, your 15,000 posts already show that very well.

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by seedman55

You bunch of pied piper led jackoffs, odumbo is the biggest anti-american COCKSUCKER, and the biggest lying, traitorous piece of shit to ever walk the earth.

Please explain, or are you just bloviating again?

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

I'm not a Republican, either. You don't have to be a Republican to think that President Obama is a narcissistic, dishonest, and corrupt President.

And no, I've come up with a lot better. Just review the threads. I've got lots of good stuff here.

You're a lying sack of shit. You defend the GOP policies almost verbatim. occasionally you diverge, only to make you seem like the "outsider."

Lying sack of whaleshit. Ain't nothing lower.

[CuteOldGuy]

LOL! You are too funny, Comrade Assup! Remember, you're the one who called me a "librarian'. You're the liar, but go ahead make stuff up. LOL!

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