Obama's love-fest for eulogy to Obama Senator Daniel Inouye
I had posted about his self-referential speech
two days ago. A 1,600 word speech and Barry used the word “my” 21 times, “me” 12 times, and “I” 30 times. He talked about his first trip to the Mainland. Turns out he got the dates wrong.
From Jim Hoft writing at
The Gateway Pundit:
Figures. Obama’s Life Story at Senator Inouye’s Funeral Doesn’t Jibe With History
It’s already been discussed that Barack Obama’s eulogy at Senator Inouye’s memorial in Washington DC was a tribute to himself and not the late Hawaiian senator.
Obama spoke for 10 minutes about himself and his life story, barely mentioning the life of Senator Inouye.
But it’s worse than that.
Barack Obama distorted his life story in order to include Senator Inouye in his talk.
Jack Cashill at American Thinker reported:Obama’s oration dealt to a large degree with how he came to understand what a U.S. senator is. “Now, even though my mother and grandparents took great pride that they had voted for him,” said Barack Obama of Inouye, “I confess that I wasn’t paying much attention to the United States Senate at the age of four or five or six. It wasn’t until I was 11 years old that I recall even learning what a U.S. senator was, or it registering, at least. It was during my summer vacation with my family — my first trip to what those of us in Hawaii call the Mainland.”
The story of the trip set up the punch line. He told Inouye’s mourners that “my mother that summer would turn on the TV every night during this vacation and watch the Watergate hearings,” and he was forced to watch, too. Of course, the senator who “fascinated” him most was “this man of Japanese descent with one arm, speaking in this courtly baritone, full of dignity and grace.”
This story would work only if Obama had toured the United States during the summer of the Watergate hearings, 1973, when he was eleven years old going on twelve, but in his memoir Dreams from My Father, he tells another story — a much more specific one. Yes, he made the same trip, but he did so “during the summer after my father’s visit to Hawaii, before my eleventh birthday.” This would have been 1972, when Watergate was still a third-rate burglary that had gotten little media traction.
I am not surprised -- details? Those are for the little people. I am above details...
Posted by DaveH at December 24, 2012 4:36 PM