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Barack Obama Knows Now What It’s Like to Give a Speech Where Only One Man Claps
International Journal Review ^ | 3-26-14 | Mike Miller

Posted on 03/26/2014 10:48:42 PM PDT by kingattax

VIDEO AT LINK

Okay, THAT was certainly embarrassing.

At the end of a joint news conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Netherlands on Tuesday, the applause for Barack Obama came from a grand total of one guy.

One.

After thanking the crowd twice for suffering through his boring, standard worn-out spiel, Obama looked around the room, expecting the usual fanfare and applause he receives from his loyal followers back home.

It never came. Instead, the Leader of the Free World was met with one slow, awkward clap.

Question: was MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in the house?

(Excerpt) Read more at ijreview.com ...


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KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; bho44; bhoeurope; europeanunion; nato; netherlands; snub; zero
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To: kingattax

Obama probably went back to his hotel suite, smoked a joint and pouted.


21 posted on 03/27/2014 2:39:25 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: kingattax

The world knews Obama is an empty suit....

That side of the pond expects American leadership to do it’s dirty work and keep people like Putin and the various other wanna be powers in check...

Obama is no longer holding their hands and babysitting them...

That’s why the tepid response....


22 posted on 03/27/2014 3:43:35 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: kingattax

I watched the video yesterday and I might have to watch it again ... I think I heard bambi say “applause?” after he was done and realized no one was clapping.


23 posted on 03/27/2014 4:13:08 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Gene Eric

TOTUS was obviously not there ... apparent by Obama’s incoherent rambling.


24 posted on 03/27/2014 4:14:50 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: kingattax
"This is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause"... or one guy clapping!
25 posted on 03/27/2014 5:03:02 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Bullish

No everyone else had walked out early in the spiel..

the guy clapping was the cleaner..


26 posted on 03/27/2014 5:06:35 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Rocky; All
it may NOT have been a tingling...more likely a different
substance altogether from someone in the crowd..
"pardon me, are you an American journalist?"

27 posted on 03/27/2014 5:23:40 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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