Posted on 09/07/2009 10:20:39 AM PDT by joinedafterattack
President Obama makes his school speech all about himself. Uses the word "I" 56 times.
Text of School Speech Below.
It was 25 times, DUmmie.
Obama’s Memorial day speech was almost as bad as this.
Compare it to any of Bush’s and you will find that Obama is all about himself AND NO ONE ELSE.
Maybe, but Reagan wasn’t a commie/muslim out to destroy the USA.
Nice of him to talk yet again about his shaky start in life, eh?
He left something out though — kind of important: he forgot to mention that it was something more than hard work that got him (and wifey) into their respective high fallutin’ colleges....
However, since he is clearly aiming this at the supposedly downtrodden (no examples of kids named Tommy or Susie or Josh or Buffy heard in this speech) I suppose whatever those downtrodden kids take away from this is OK —
If I had any kids in school, though, I think I’d say NO, thank you, to their hearing the speech. It seems doubtful that he will read the script verbatim.
Talking to these kids about Jordan is akin to talking to my elementary school about Babe Ruth. They kind of know who he is, but its ancient history
And yes, I live in Springfield MA. I am aware he is coming to town.
Exactly! Most people want to do well for themselves, or their families, or their community. But this narcissist decides to indoctrinate the kids into thinking it’s him personally they owe—I mean he’s getting them all those books, and computers and classroom materials? WTF! No he’s not! The vast majority of school money comes from local and state taxes, not the federal government!
How about instilling a little personal gratification and reward for a job well done—not, “oh, look what the president did for me, so now I must do for him.” This is exactly what everyone feared-—subtle brainwashing.
And don’t get me started on the ‘poor me, look at me, my life was hard, feel sorry for me, worship me because of what I’ve done because I worked hard’ pile of crap. He had wealthy benefactors helping all along the way.
Puke.
So, a lying newbie... you’ll last long.
I didn’t count any where near that number. Obama likes to talk about himself a lot and you seem to like to defend him a lot.
Figgers.
rather confirming, lol
Final Crisis was counting the "I's" from the Q&A session on the same web page. Those are kids using the word "I" - not President Reagan. So Final Crisis is incorrect.
Reagan used “I” 75 times in his address to students on November 14, 1988
” I “ can be used in different ways.
And Barry and Ronald Reagan used them differently.
I had such a lonely childhood vs I want you to learn about our Founding Fathers.
The irony from Reagan’s talk.
“ Dictators today from Afghanistan to Nicaragua do not want to be called Czar or Commissar;
they want to be called Mr. President and to pretend that they rule in the people’s name, even if they don’t. “
Final:
Your claim is erroneous.
Your count includes the Q& A portion of the transcript.
The text of R’s address has a few “I’s”, but the occurrence is relatively scarce.
The bottom line is ‘Bam’s narcissism. He’s one.
the iPresident
How so? They obviously wrote a new speech. If not, why didn’t they release it sooner?
I don’t like his line.
“... and make our nation more fair and more free”
We already are fair and free...
So far it looks pretty harmless but I’ll read it again. I’m sure it’s VERY toned down from the original, before we were wise to his antics. Good , lets keep this Marxist bastard on the run and nervous about evey word he says.
You point out the truth
and here is obama’s speech broken out’
•56 iterations of “I”
•19 iterations of “school”
•10 iterations of “education”
•8 iterations of “responsibility”
•7 iterations of “country”
•5 iterations each of “parents”, “teachers”
•3 iterations of “nation”
In other words, Barack Obama referenced himself more than school, education, responsibility, country/nation, parents, and teachers combined. And to think that people accused Obama of self-promotion!
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