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"Obama's eulogy for Obama at Sen. Inouye's funeral"

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Blogger DCS said...

One of the best examples of Obama's narcissism I've ever seen. The man is truly incredible.

12/22/12, 3:05 PM

Anonymous Harry Baldwin said...

Incredible. Shameless. And so, so banal. Was this stream of consciousness, or did he actually write it out, have a chance to review it and consider how solipsistic it was, but conclude, "Dammit, this is good, really good"?

I love this section:

"This was a man who as a teenager stepped up to serve his country even after his fellow Japanese Americans were declared enemy aliens; a man who believed in America even when its government didn't necessarily believe in him. That meant something to me."

And so I enlisted in the military to serve my country. No, that wasn't it. I thought, "Hey, I could be famous like that guy too!"

12/22/12, 3:15 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

People do tend to talk about how the dead affected *them*. But sure, he probably didn't even read the man's bio. Perhaps Bill Clinton would have done that out of (a desire to portray?) genuine curiosity+respect.

12/22/12, 3:25 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Obama's narcissism is fed by his minion's starcissism.

If some people are into themselves, other feed on OTHER people's narcissism than on their own. They gaze up at others as stars or something.
This is why so many dweeby white liberal boys worship Obama's narcissism. Though not exactly narcissistic themselves, they admire the narcissism of an Obama(or an Oprah).

Without starcissists, narcissists would be lonely and ridiculed figures. But as long as there are starcissists to feed off on the narcissism of others, we have phenoms like Obama. Our entire celebrity culture is like that.

Tarantino is a starcissist who creates narcissist on his own heroes to worship.

12/22/12, 3:27 PM

Anonymous jody said...

Aren't you being a bit harsh on the current & present Obama? His eulogy was about the meaning of Inouye to him (the President!) and to the nation. That's not bad form.

12/22/12, 3:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did Obama mention FDR threw all those 'japs' into the camps?

12/22/12, 3:29 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did Obama mention the policies of Israel?
Did he mention how Ivies exclude many smart Asians and white gents?

12/22/12, 3:31 PM

Anonymous Kylie said...

I never realized that Daniel Inouye served in WWII so heroically and in the Senate so illustriously just so he could influence a young man named Barack Hussein Obama.

I guess "Danny" didn't realize it, either, or he would have asked the docs to take his other arm, too, just to make sure young Barack was properly impressed.

12/22/12, 3:36 PM

Blogger Jason Sylvester said...

In thirteen (shortish) paragraphs of tribute to the recently deceased, I count 27 uses of the pronoun "I" and 21 uses of either "my" or "me" in the sense of "something either belonging to or intrinsically about yours truly" ("my summer vacation...my first trip...").

The guy seems to have his favorite person ever at the forefront of his mind, even on occasions that might tempt him to shift his devout attentions elsewhere...

12/22/12, 3:43 PM

Anonymous Kylie said...

"Seriously, I've noticed in myself in recent years a growth in the same tendency that Obama has to wax nostalgic about our younger years."

With you, that's just part of getting older. With Obama, it's the habit of a lifetime.

Also, go ahead and wax away, you're endlessly fascinating whereas Obama is terminally dull.

12/22/12, 3:57 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"His eulogy was about the meaning of Inouye to him (the President!) and to the nation."

"Dreams from my yellow fellow."

12/22/12, 4:07 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, what a great speech. Nothing to see here folks. Move on...

12/22/12, 4:29 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's like Tree of Life. Universe existed just so I could make this greatest movie of all time.

Obama's Dream of Life. American history existed just to lead to me, me, me.
Obama is like one-man-boomer-narcissism machine.

Boomers thought theirs was the final frontier and last generation, that they were gonna be forever young, and etc. So, we hear boomer this, boomer that, boomer, boomer, boomer.
Well, we now have Oboomer.

12/22/12, 4:33 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

If I were Lautenberg, I wouldn't sign a DNR, until Barry is out of Office.

12/22/12, 4:35 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Inouye was eventually awarded the medal of honor for his actions. A very curious thing -- he lost his memory of what happened after he was wounded. When they informed him of what he'd done he was astonished:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MCHjb50S20&

12/22/12, 4:57 PM

Anonymous Kylie said...

"Inouye was eventually awarded the medal of honor for his actions. A very curious thing -- he lost his memory of what happened after he was wounded. When they informed him of what he'd done he was astonished."

So what effect did that have on Obama?

12/22/12, 5:34 PM

Anonymous Daniel C. said...

Obama is the result of the irrational push by society that has been growing at least since the 60s to depict blacks as perfect beings whom can do no wrong. They are all winners, regardless of how much they screw up, and every screwup is due to an external cause- poverty! dysfunctional community! legacy of slavery! and the biggest and root cause of it all- the white man! As long as they don't commit a serious crime, they don't have to have above a bare minimum of ability to get a job ahead of people who are much more talented.

This leads to narcissism in kids, as they grow up with unrealistic ideas, thinking they are far more talented and bright then they actually are. Chalk one more up for liberals screwing up blacks with their road paved with good intentions.

12/22/12, 6:01 PM

Anonymous Velan said...

Not to insult true heroism, but one has to wonder just how much of this is real, and how much is tall tale built up over the years? I'm sure a little embellishment couldn't hurt his political aspirations. In any case, if he lost his arm in combat, that alone is worth respect.

12/22/12, 6:04 PM

Anonymous James Walker said...

If there were ever a man about whose career it could be said, "You didn't build that," that man would be Obama.

I used to think the narcissism was to mask his deep insecurities, which were and still are numerous. But Sailer points out that the script of "Dreams" is being played out by O in real-time.
Barry knows how to manipulate people, I will give him that. But he betrays himself constantly.

His contempt for others shows in his inappropriate touching of others' shoulders at public appearances to show he is the alpha, or at least trying to be.

It also shows when he refers to people he ostensibly admires, like Sen. Inouye, as "Danny." When he references vending and ice machines in Midwestern hotels during a solemn ceremony for a senator from O's home state, you know some wire has gotten badly crossed.

Read the WSJ today re: budget matters and see how contemptuously he treated Boehner. None of this bodes well for O's next four years.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/wsj-obama-threatened-boehner-that-hell-use-inauguration-sotu-speches-to-blame-gop/article/2516688#.UNZl1SCa98E

12/22/12, 6:23 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I used to think the narcissism was to mask his deep insecurities.."

I don't think it's that, I think it's just him being black.

12/22/12, 6:35 PM

Anonymous Auntie Analogue said...

Before he was nominated for candidacy prior to his first term Obama impressed me as being just another flannel-mouthed bullshit artist big shot. How is it that so many of us are favorably impressed by windbags?

Senator Inouye was an extraordinarily brave infantryman whose heroism cost him dearly, but in politics he, too, had his ample share of windbag moments, and yet, unlike Obama, Senator Inouye seemed seldom to abuse the privilege.

12/22/12, 6:39 PM

Anonymous James Walker said...

@Auntie Anologue:

Inouye was a windbag, and a pork-barrel king, but as you point out, he was a war hero and earned the right to be both.

O has earned nothing in life but knows how to pull the levers of race to get where he wants to go.

James Taranto of the WSJ concludes that Barry was bitter at Romney and other high achievers because he knew that they had achieved something and that he really had not.

It's as if Barry were honored on the podium with a Horatio Alger award through manipulation of the process and then complained about the other guys there who founded substantive enterprises: Home Depot, Wendy's, etc. Taranto seems to be saying it's mostly jealousy.

See "Explaining Obama's Ressentiment"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444330904577537003820291084.html





12/22/12, 8:05 PM

Anonymous rob said...

Anonymous said...
It's like Tree of Life. Universe existed just so I could make this greatest movie of all time.


Why'd you stop writing titles in ALL CAPS? Bit harder to spot you now.

12/22/12, 8:31 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

He's a prickly-skinned, narcissistic jerk. He can't be gracious unless the conversation is about himself.

12/22/12, 8:48 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Obama's basic theme = how the Senator ("Danny") inspired me

what a gracious eulogy theme would have been = the Senator led an heroic, honorable, inspirational life

12/22/12, 9:00 PM

Anonymous gumm said...

not eulogy but melogy.

12/22/12, 10:20 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't it amazing how Obama can take the death of another guy and make it all about him? His ego and narcicissim know no bounds.

12/22/12, 10:21 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"A very curious thing -- he lost his memory of what happened after he was wounded."

And Obama remembers things he didn't even do.

12/22/12, 10:22 PM

Anonymous be like priss said...

Do you suppose obamerals have kept up the birth certificate controversy to maintain the mythic aura around Obama's origins?

Jesus was also shrouded in a mythic/mysterious controversy about His miraculous birth(to a virgin mother).

So, it could be that conservatives fell into a trap. They both got ridiculed for birtherism AND helped fuel the magical mystery around Obama's birth.

12/22/12, 10:26 PM

Blogger BrokenSymmetry said...

One should formulate a Strong Anthropic Principle V2.0 where the universe is conducive to the rise of conscious beings so that BHO could be twice elected POTUS. The research budgets of now redundant cosmology departments can be slashed and the funds re-allocated for another monumental statue in 2016 to commemorate the Golden Age of the previous 8 years. Win-win.

12/23/12, 12:42 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

pretty f-ing brave guy.

12/23/12, 5:50 AM

Anonymous Sword said...

Take-home message:

No matter in which army they serve, Japanese soldiers are *not* giver-uppers. Holy crap.

Saw it on the most recent World Championship final in Women´s soccer - USA seemed better, but the Japanese did one of the most heroic comebacks in sports that I have ever seen.

The only thing that stops people from that nation are nukes, and you need two of those at that.

12/23/12, 5:54 AM

Blogger TontoBubbaGoldstein said...

Have to agree with jody on this one. It is the minister's job to give the "wiki synopsis" of the deceased's life. Others who deliver eulogies, or as we say in the south, "speak over the body", usually tell anecdotes involving personal experiences with the deceased as wee as ways that the deceased had affected/ inspired/ motivated them etc.
Unfortunately, Inouye probably had no contemporaries left to wax eloquently on his WWII heroics.....but aside from being dead, it is pretty cool to have a sitting POTUS (no matter who you are and whether or not you like him) deliver your eulogy.
Could Obama have done better?Sure. Did he deliver it in his typical narcissistic tone? Sure.was he way out of line? I don't think so...

12/23/12, 7:10 AM

Anonymous Kylie said...

"Others who deliver eulogies, or as we say in the south, 'speak over the body', usually tell anecdotes involving personal experiences with the deceased as wee as ways that the deceased had affected/ inspired/ motivated them etc."

Yes, but the emphasis is supposed to be on the deceased, not on the speaker. Obama went into more detail about his childhood vacation than he did about Inouye's heroic service and honorable life.

A eulogy that mentions how exciting ice machines in a motel were to the speaker when he was an 11 y/o? That's got to be a first.

12/23/12, 9:07 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

At a recent funeral, I noted that everyone who stood up and memorialized the decedent in effect spoke about themselves.

To do so is not particularly narcissistic, just average. The occasion called for speaking off the cuff. Everyone knows that the president is not eloquent. Your bile against the president is unattractive.

12/23/12, 9:12 AM

Anonymous Hacienda said...

He's a prickly-skinned, narcissistic jerk. He can't be gracious unless the conversation is about himself.
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Pretty describes every rich person I've ever met.

Don't hate the race (if that's what you're doing), hate the class.

12/23/12, 9:34 AM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

I knew that Inouye was a war hero, but I had no idea that he was such an Audie-Murphy like badass. Sounds like he should have got the Congressional Medal of Honor, which - had he not been japanese, I suppose he might have got.

12/23/12, 12:00 PM

Blogger Snapperhead Soup said...

Tiny bubbles in the wine, makes him happy, makes him feel fine.

12/23/12, 12:34 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Peri Brown meets Doctor Who (6) for the first time

The man who saves the Earth form evil aliens comments"

Threes Is in one sentence? One would think you were an egotistical young lady."

Or Skip Bayliss.

Or even Barack O.

12/23/12, 2:54 PM

Anonymous Kylie said...

"At a recent funeral, I noted that everyone who stood up and memorialized the decedent in effect spoke about themselves."

We're not talking type here but degree.

"To do so is not particularly narcissistic, just average."

I'm sure it was, in the case of the funeral you attended. But the excruciating detail Obama went into about his childhood vacation--an event which had only the most tenuous connection with the deceased, whom he was supposed to be eulogizing--was noteworthy.

"The occasion called for speaking off the cuff."

If you mean the funeral you attended, I'll take your word for it. But surely you don't mean you think Obama spoke off-the-cuff at Sen. Inouye's funeral.

"Everyone knows that the president is not eloquent."

Really? We've told the exact opposite for the past few years now.

"Your bile against the president is unattractive."

Not nearly so unattractive as the president's own bile against whites.

12/23/12, 4:22 PM

Blogger Norville Rogers said...

Hmm. That dopey, meandering, cliche-ridden eulogy ought to put to rest O's reputation as a modern Cicero. It's like a scene out of an old B movie when the handsome lead spouts his final dramatic repartee at the villain but it sounds like something the producer's nephew might have worked up--for this we need an Ivy League speechwriting team? Keep that transcript warm in the bookmarks... "Hey Barack, how's Disneyland these days? Still good?"

12/23/12, 5:09 PM

Blogger Norville Rogers said...

An 9:12-- The occasion called for speaking off the cuff. Everyone knows that the president is not eloquent. Your bile against the president is unattractive

No, it's the soft bigotry of above-average expectations

12/23/12, 5:15 PM

Blogger Rev. Right said...

Not only was the eulogy delivered by Obama at Inouye's funeral yet another nauseating example of his revereance for himself, it was also complete bullshit. Via Jack Cashill:

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.

In Dreams, Obama mentioned a Kansas City stop along the way, and Madelyn's youngest brother in suburban KC would later provide photographic evidence of the same. He confirmed the year as 1972. This disparity did not stop Obama from relating in Dreams how in that elusive summer he "watched the Watergate hearings every night before going to bed." There was no mention of Senator Inouye. He was apparently trying to make some other point.



There is absolutely nothing real about this man's past.

12/23/12, 9:46 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

He's a prickly-skinned, narcissistic jerk. He can't be gracious unless the conversation is about himself.
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Pretty describes every rich person I've ever met.

Don't hate the race (if that's what you're doing), hate the class.
_____________________________

I don't know that many uber rich, but I'd not say the few I know are narcissists at all.

Hate the class? Bubba, I hate the middle class, of which I am a part, for voting for this wind bag and I hate the media elite for seeing to it that his warts don't make the 6 o'clock news. I feel contempt for half of my countrymen.

If you're a thug or a moocher, I despise you, whatever your race.

12/23/12, 10:14 PM

Blogger Marc B said...

I came to the same conclusion after inspecting the .pdf of his long-form birth certificate. It was such an obvious fake that that it had be created just to drive the skeptics crazy while knowing the MSM and establishment would continue to cover for him, which would make his detractors sound even more wing-nutty.

12/23/12, 10:33 PM

Anonymous Matthew said...

Of all the egocentric speeches I've seen Obama give, this was the worst. He's reelected. It's the classic second term slump. Now he's not even trying.

12/23/12, 11:44 PM

Anonymous Kylie said...

"Of all the egocentric speeches I've seen Obama give, this was the worst."

It would seem to be impossible to top but I bet he manages that before he's through.

"He's reelected. It's the classic second term slump."

No, he's just showing his true color[s].

"Now he's not even trying."

I wouldn't say that. I find him every bit as trying as before.

12/24/12, 11:38 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"During a campaign rally in Ohio, Obama said that as a child he was excited just to play with the ice machine and swim in the hotel pool. “It didn’t matter how big it was,” Obama said."

Well, well, he sho has changed cuz now everything he wants has to be bigger and biggest.

From 'grew up in log cabin' myth to 'hotel swimming pool' myth.

I guess water is like baptismal image.

12/26/12, 3:36 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Obama can make anything into something about him. Extreme narcissism or over-compensated inferiority complex?

12/26/12, 8:52 PM

Anonymous Chris said...

I think this was more of a botched speech than anything else. It's true that it's appropriate for a speaker at a funeral to say how the dead affected him. However, ideally this should be in a way brings to mind some quality of the dead person for the attendees of the funeral, or in a way that reveals an admirable quality of the dead unknown to most attendees.

In this case, it seems apparent that the speech Obama had in his head was to create a story of a future president's trip across the US, every day spanning more of the country while every night learning about its democracy from Inouye. It's not a bad story, but Obama mangled it by his anecdotes about ice machines and by then losing the narrative.

There's some narcissism here, but equally there's Obama's lack of skill at speechifying. I've never understood my leftist friends who think Obama is a great speaker. The speech Obama tried to give is one that Reagan would have nailed.

Obama would have given a better speech if he had stuck to telling about interacting with Inouye in the Senate. He could have told a story that actually centered on Inouye and yet revealed how Inouye had influenced Obama. Of course, maybe that never happened because maybe Obama has never really had the humility to be influenced by his colleagues in that way...

Not to insult true heroism, but one has to wonder just how much of this is real

Raising that sort of question is an insult to true heroism. As another writer mentions, Inouye was a windbag as a senator but a true war hero. If you have doubts about famous decorated veterans, you should investigate them for yourself rather than raising questions in this manner.

12/26/12, 10:33 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am surprised the United States lasted so long without Obama being around. Oh but wait, he is Abe Lincoln reincarnated. America will curse the day he became president if they haven't already.

12/27/12, 9:32 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, this board is full of Obama haters for sure.

Note, Obama mentioned himself (including his perhaps overly embellished story of his childhood trip) about 55 times. Note that several of the I's and me's are him quoting other people - usually Senator Inouye (in fact 4 of those I's are from a direct Inouye quote). Whereas he refers to the Senator over 70 times (perhaps more - I did only a rough count).

It is easy to take any words and twist them negatively. Politics do not belong in this discussion.

If you listen to the eulogy with an open mind you will find a deeply personal story of inspiration and a meaningful tribute.

1/7/13, 8:48 AM

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