Posted on 07/12/2016 4:13:34 PM PDT by dennisw
President Obama referred to himself 45 times over the course of the speech he delivered Tuesday at the memorial service for the five police officers killed in Dallas last week.
Obama referred to himself twice before finishing his opening salutations and before mentioning the slain officers or their families. After noting the presence of President Bush, members of Congress and Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings, Obama appeared to go off-script.
“Chief Brown, I’m so glad I met Michelle first because she loves Stevie Wonder,” Obama said, jokingly referencing Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s earlier speech in which Brown quoted lyrics from the song “As” in tribute to the deceased. The president looked around the room, pointed at Brown and cracked a grin while the audience laughed at and applauded his joke. “Most of all, the families…” Obama said, proceeding with his speech.
Obama would refer to himself 43 more times throughout the speech — most of which he personally wrote, according to the LA Times — including one instance where he referred to himself in the third-person: “the president.”
The president also referred to himself while lamenting the apparent inefficacy of his own rhetoric. “I’ve seen how inadequate my own words can be,” he said.
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I have never attended a funeral or memorial service where anybody applauded anyone - maybe I’m just sheltered. Hope no one started a crowd “wave” while BHO delivered whatever it was he delivered. Very disrespectful IMHO.
Sorry for double post burp. I’ll probably double post this, too!
I can’t stand to watch him, either. He’s such a jive, arrogant, smug jerk.....among a thousand other nasty things.
Goes to speak at a memorial service for 5 fallen police officers, and it’s all about HIM..... what a fraud.
“Hi, I’m Barry the Community-Organizer-in-Chief, everything is about meeeeeeeeee......”
It’s disgusting..... he launched into his “rally entertainment” mode rather than give a somber, appropriate, heartfelt memorial address for those fallen officers. Obama has been a total embarrassment to this nation throughout his time in office.
Might have been 48-49 times cause he stutters
He has no idea what an eulogy is, does he?
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Local DFW talk radio said Bush and Chief Brown each spoke for about 6 minutes. Then Obama spoke for 40 minutes, with the last 30 minutes further stirring up the racial divide and talking about gun control!
The Mayor and Chief should both have told the White House, before the trip to Dallas was planned, to tell Obama that he was not wanted in Dallas.
BTTT
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