tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post1844102627220708381..comments2023-11-02T11:37:01.300-05:00Comments on Cold Fusion Guy: Obama's "I", "me", "my" problemJim Peethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649414726939918803noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post-56476626484118901702012-12-27T09:01:15.998-06:002012-12-27T09:01:15.998-06:00BARACK OBAMA’S FORGOTTEN “EARLIEST POLTICAL INSPIR...<a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/12/barack-obamas-forgotten-earliest-poltical-inspiration.php" rel="nofollow">BARACK OBAMA’S FORGOTTEN “EARLIEST POLTICAL INSPIRATION”</a><br /><br /><i>If one is ever going to embellish significantly on the truth, a eulogy is probably the place to do it. But the embellishment should pertain solely to the deceased, not the eulogizer.<br /><br />In his eulogy for Sen. Daniel Inouye, President Obama spoke in some detail about his favorite subject — himself. In doing so Obama claimed that “Danny Inouye was perhaps my earliest political inspiration.” He explained that he learned how a democracy is supposed to work from watching Sen. Inouye cross-examine witnesses during the Senate Watergate hearings. Without that experience, Obama asserted, “I might never have considered a career in public service; I might not be standing here today.”<br /><br />...<br /><br />But, as Patrick Brennan points out, Obama has written two autobiographies. In them, collectively, he mentions the late Hawaii Senator only once. And in that one mention, Obama compares Inouye to former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens(!) as an example of the Senate’s collegial “dying breed.”<br /><br />Inouye also received no mention in the two leading biographies of Obama — David Remnick’s and David Maraniss’. And Brennan found no referenes to Inouye in Obama’s publicly reported speeches.<br /><br />...<br />No matter what the occasion, and no matter who is supposed to be the subject of praise, for Barack Obama the topic is always the same — Barack Obama. And when he discusses this topic, the truth is usually beside the point.</i>Jim Peethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649414726939918803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post-7537080413630161752012-12-23T06:20:44.133-06:002012-12-23T06:20:44.133-06:00I don't like listening to him either!I don't like listening to him either!JohnBrianMckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09965356997860268485noreply@blogger.com