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Missed you guys!
I could not help but to think of the scene in Animal House.
More seriously, I recently went to a funeral of an old college friend in that area of DC. I was one of the three white people in the church. I was made to feel very welcome.
Obama’s first, last and only thought is of himself – his ‘thoughtful’ speech was remembering grade-school history and regurgitating it, as just another sanctimonious, self-aggrandizing lecture. I wish I could fall asleep to an Obama speech – but I find his voice way to aggravating for that.
The punch line of his whole speech was “Miss me, yet?” …
This is how I hear an Obama speech:
In the speech I quote above (I think this is the speech where he invited Paul Ryan, who was sitting right in the front row – to insult him to his face) He has a litany of complaints about the sequester, in all honesty, he should have added one last one “and it was MY idea”.
Comment.
Oh, ok, I’ll say more than comment. Ha. First, love anything from Gilbert & Sullivan so you may play another one. Sorry to hear of your friend. I do think that the ability/virtue? to just reach out to people is a great one. Maybe it will inspire you to call someone when you’re in their town. Finally, I will not read Obama’s speech even it I might appreciate it. I just find him very shallow – maybe that’s part of the cool thing. If you don’t care about anything deeply, you’re not going to get excited. Not going to read Bob ‘I talk to people in comas’ Woodward either. I cut Trump a certain amount of slack because he is not a regular politician so the White House is just not going to run like most of the ones in the past. I wonder if people worried about A Jackson or A Lincoln in the same way?
and also to Occupant’s comments:
I don’t think anything Obama says is ever deep. And I do find his self-absorption to be obnoxious. But because he is so impotent at this point he is no longer a threat and it’s hard to get worked up about him. So his speech has some basic roots of liberalism stuff in it and it reads ok. That’s all. Sometimes you learn more about a subject from a high school paper than from a high impact journal.