Gary M Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 What's the over/under on how many times Obama says "I" in his farewell speech? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 It'll top 100 easily. He can do that during a meet and greet of an NBA Championship team. Including I, me, my, mine, altogether I'd say about 185. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 FRANK SINATRA How Deep Is The Ocean - YouTube It doesn't really matter......................he showed his usual poor timing and waited too long to give it. It will be a topic in the media for a few hours, and then it will be back to the confirmations and Trump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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IDBillzFan Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) No one is looking more forward to this speech than Jimmy Carter, who will be sitting there waiting for the clock to stop running on his time as the single biggest disaster to ever come out of the Democratic party. But word on the street is everyone is closing early today so they can watch the speech together on the 28" bigscreen in the Greater Macungie Community Arts and Bingo Center. Edited January 10, 2017 by LABillzFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 This should be a fun watch... 3 minutes. What the hell is happening??? What is she screaming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepthefaith Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 It'll top 100 easily. He can do that during a meet and greet of an NBA Championship team. Including I, me, my, mine, altogether I'd say about 185. 15 minutes ago he said he was making his last point and he's said I or some form of that 185 times just since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Has anyone ever done a farewell address as a rally like this before? You know, one way to avoid hecklers: Give a dignified farewell address from the Oval Office. Hey Barack............... "that we rise and fall as one" is not actually a feature of democracy at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Has anyone ever done a farewell address as a rally like this before? You know, one way to avoid hecklers: Give a dignified farewell address from the Oval Office. All he knows how to do is campaign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Has anyone ever done a farewell address as a rally like this before? You know, one way to avoid hecklers: Give a dignified farewell address from the Oval Office. Hey Barack............... "that we rise and fall as one" is not actually a feature of democracy at all We are about to watch 4 years of the Master do this. Obama is Minor League Ball... Good, but not The Master! All he knows how to do is campaign. ooops... My above post was to quote you too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Oh man, he mentioned "democracy" more than any other previous recent President in his farewell. I guess Conservatives will hate democracy now... https://qz.com/882736/obama-name-checked-democracy-20-times-in-his-farewell-speech-more-than-the-last-15-presidents-combined/ Obama used the word “democracy” 20 times in his speech, far more than George W. Bush in his farewell (three times) or Bill Clinton in his (zero times). In fact, you’d have to stack up final speeches going all the way back to Woodrow Wilson to match Obama’s “democracy” mentions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 No, You Didn’t The president is leaving the same way he came in: with a great deal of vague and fruity talk about “hope and change,” very little of genuine interest, and an undercurrent of bitterness communicating his unshakeable belief that the American people just simply are not up to the task of fully appreciating History’s unique gift to them in the person of Barack Obama. And he is so terribly disappointed in us! Having just endured the electorate’s rejection of his party and his mode of politics with the election of Donald Trump, and grimly considering the likely dismantling of much of his executive-order legacy, President Obama gave a speech about how our democracy has failed and why. You’ll be something less than shocked to learn that his belief is that Americans are so beguiled and befouled by racism and prejudice that we failed to cultivate the sacred spark the Promethean president handed down to us. Oh, and we watch too much Fox News and read too many Facebook posts from that right-wing uncle of myth and lore, which deprives us of a “common baseline of facts.” How did we get here? Barack Obama’s sales pitch was threefold. (His boasting about “marriage equality” suggests that he may have forgotten he ran against that, so he may need some reminding) The president did not spend a great deal of time revisiting every jot and tittle of his record in office last night, and neither will we. Historians will have a great deal to say about it, but we expect their judgment to be severe. As commander-in-chief, President Obama effectively lost the peace in Iraq, made a series of missteps that enabled the rise and the flourishing of the Islamic State (the so-called junior varsity of Islamic terrorism), helped turn Syria into a humanitarian disaster with his empty threats and then turned the mess over to the gentle offices of Moscow and Tehran, and failed to take seriously the threat of continued jihadist terror in the United States — all those episodes of workplace violence and that ferocious pack of “lone wolves” that has been so horribly active that we are becoming inured to its predations. At home, President Obama’s signature health-care program is a shambles, deservedly unpopular across the political spectrum, a resounding legislative and administrative failure that may well be undone early in the Trump administration. The economy is, to be sure, in much better shape than it was when Obama took office; how much credit his policies deserve for that might be indicated in some part by the fact that employment and wage improvements were most robust toward the end of his tenure rather than near the beginning or middle, suggesting the possibility that such measures as the stimulus bill either did very little to improve them or actually delayed organic recovery. Many more words will be written about this, but they will be in the main more expansive considerations of his failures and their causes than odes to his intelligent leadership, which never has been much in evidence. Last night was billed as a forward-looking speech, but it was in no small part an evening of recriminations: Not only are those who resist his agenda racists, who care only about “people who look like them,” he also went so far as to argue that people who disagree with him about climate change are un-American, acting in a way that is contrary to the spirit of the country. His illiberalism in this matter is really quite remarkable, although perhaps that should not be surprising: Even as he paid lip service to free speech and the value of dissent, his colleagues and his attorney general are working to sue, and perhaps prosecute, those with nonconforming views on global warming. He further proposed adopting new norms in media and political discourse that would suffocate criticism of his party, its policies, and its philosophy. Barack Obama will remain in office for a little while still, but we might reasonably consider last night’s speech the end of the Obama presidency. That is because in spite of serving his time during a historical era jam-packed with events — in the Middle East, in China, in Russia (which has grown larger), in the United States, enterprises of great pitch and moment — Barack Obama has spent eight years under the misconception that the job of the president consists mainly in the making of speeches. And for a man who rose to national attention on the basis of his oratory, he has said relatively little that is memorable. That is because he has relatively little to say, being a man who brought no new ideas or insights to the office, only a pointlessly grandiose sense of his own specialness. He is a man who stood astride History muttering “You’re welcome, you ingrates.” Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443751/obama-farewell-address-self-loving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Obama Boasts No Terror Attacks On Our Soil, Then Lists Terror Attacks On Our Soil. It’s generally considered good form to wait at least 24 hours before contradicting oneself so completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Final tally is in........................who won ?................................................trick question, we all lost. Obama Refers To Himself 75 Times In Farewell Address http://trib.al/rLSJ8rm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 What a let down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Oh man, he mentioned "democracy" more than any other previous recent President in his farewell. I guess Conservatives will hate democracy now... https://qz.com/882736/obama-name-checked-democracy-20-times-in-his-farewell-speech-more-than-the-last-15-presidents-combined/ Leftist Democracy http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/12/rosie-odonnell-i-fully-support-imposing-martial-law-to-stop-trump-inauguration/ http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/12/british-reporter-wonders-if-obama-could-murder-trump-pence-to-stay-president/ Or is that Democratic Socialism? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Final tally is in........................who won ?................................................trick question, we all lost. Obama Refers To Himself 75 Times In Farewell Address http://trib.al/rLSJ8rm Wait. Did he give a speech this week? I don't recall reading anything about it in the news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Hey! Uncle Joe just got a medal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Hey! Uncle Joe just got a medal! I watched that as it happened. I don't often agree with Biden politically, but I always liked him. I thought the event was rather moving - he clearly had no idea he was going receive it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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