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OBAMA's "I AM THE PRESIDENT" LINE STOLEN FROM MOVIE!
Daily Script ^ | JWB0581

Posted on 09/06/2012 10:14:26 PM PDT by jwb0581

If Obama's "I am the president" line from tonight's speech sounded familiar to you, it might be because it was ripped from Aaron Sorkin's "The American President". Toward the end of the movie, fictional president Andrew Shephard says "I am the president" in a line remembered by many who have seen the 1995 film.


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Obama reaches new low, now ripping off movie scripts for ideas.
1 posted on 09/06/2012 10:14:32 PM PDT by jwb0581
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I thought it seemed oddly out of place when he delivered that line. It now makes sense that it was lifted from a movie. A speechwriter in inserting the line may have in mind how effective it worked in the movie, but that was under the conditions that were constructed in the movie and those conditions are not the same in a different setting.

It struck me as petty and unbecoming — it’s not the type of thing a president himself should need to say.


2 posted on 09/06/2012 10:21:40 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: jwb0581

Everything about this idiot is phony.


3 posted on 09/06/2012 10:22:47 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: jwb0581

Yup. I am the president and l’m coming for the guns.


4 posted on 09/06/2012 10:23:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: jwb0581

Aaron Sorkin later created the “West Wing.” But with all due respect to Obama, he ain’t Martin Sheen’s Josiah “Jed” Bartlet. Not even close.

I suspect his Administration won’t get that Hollywood scripted ending! Mercifully, the carnival show is over for four more years.


5 posted on 09/06/2012 10:23:58 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: jwb0581

And he’s sleeping off a hangover.


6 posted on 09/06/2012 10:24:42 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: jwb0581

Are you he didn’t say “I am the P-resident.”? Sorry, listening to this puke or even looking at his ugly mug makes me wanna hurl.


7 posted on 09/06/2012 10:26:45 PM PDT by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: jwb0581

Didn’t the old movie, the Groove Tube, have a similar line?


8 posted on 09/06/2012 10:27:03 PM PDT by Loud Mime (I'll claim I speak for God only after I do acid, a few lines of coke and half a bottle of bourbon.)
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To: jwb0581

Everything about Obama is fake and the media is finally noticing it..even Peggy Noonan is now saying this:

Noonan on Obama: “It was stale and empty. He’s out of juice...flat...somber..

From Carville to Noonan down the line..they are giving Obama horrible reviews of his “Worship me” speech


9 posted on 09/06/2012 10:27:19 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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In short, the MSM is REALLY straining to defend Obama. Good luck, considering all the Romney commercials coming soon that will features lots of video and sound bites from the Democratic National Convention!
10 posted on 09/06/2012 10:42:47 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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It struck me as to say-I am the president; respect me; trust me.

(in his ego driven mind) I couldn't believe James Carville was saying it was a win for the democrats/great speeches w/ Clinton helping Obama tremendously.

11 posted on 09/06/2012 10:54:23 PM PDT by Christie at the beach (I like Newt.)
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To: jwb0581

"I AM DE PREZIDENT"

12 posted on 09/06/2012 10:58:27 PM PDT by KTM rider
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"I am the Only President You have."

LBJ (circa, 1967)

13 posted on 09/06/2012 11:11:20 PM PDT by Rudder
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To: jwb0581

omg. roflol.

What a fraud.


14 posted on 09/06/2012 11:16:04 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: jwb0581

What did they expect him to say: “My chair is empty?”


15 posted on 09/06/2012 11:20:36 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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lol


16 posted on 09/06/2012 11:23:31 PM PDT by bronxville (Margaret Sanger - “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,Â)
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To: Moonman62

If Obama had a real sense of humor (and brains) he would have come out and said.....

“I promise that abortions will be available for MARTIAN WOMEN too.”


17 posted on 09/06/2012 11:26:27 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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Thanks jwb0581, was it just “I am the President”? I don’t see how it belongs to any specific movie thereagain I’m not a movie buff.

He’s really hung up on himself isn’t he...”I won” - “I am the President” - or in the words of Bill Clinton when he was on the trail for Hilary - “gimmie a break [Barack].”


18 posted on 09/06/2012 11:27:50 PM PDT by bronxville (Margaret Sanger - “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,Â)
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To: beethovenfan

Simpleton mind. No wonder he didn’t practice law, he’s not bright enough.


20 posted on 09/06/2012 11:52:05 PM PDT by MaxMax
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