The greatest speechifier in history bombed in Great Britain on Wednesday. Barack Obama may have quoted Winston Churchill, but his stolid speech in Westminster Hall didn’t inspire any comparisons to the great British Prime Minister.
The Telegraph UK tells the tale of Obama without his Teleprompter:
The pictures were better than the words…
…Perhaps Mr Obama was smothered also by his audience, which remained stubbornly unresponsive. For most of the time the President had nothing to bounce off: no applause and certainly no shouts of praise or blame as might be heard in an American church or at an American political rally.
The presidential text sounded as if it had been worked on so hard and conscientiously by a vast team of helpers that it had lost all savour, and been reduced to a series of orotund banalities, of the sort which can be heard at every tedious Anglo-American conference: “Profound challenges stretch out before us…the time for our leadership is now…Our alliance will remain indispensable.”
It did not help to hear Mr Obama assert, after only a minute or two, that “fortunately it’s been smooth sailing” between Britain and the United States “ever since” 1812, when we burned down the White House. Everyone present will have been able to think of occasions when this was not so. Suez did not seem like plain sailing.
We would like to take this opportunity to apologize to our British cousins. We Americans have learned first hand that tales of Barack Obama’s oration skills were greatly exaggerated. We should have warned you.
Our bad.
Perhaps President Obama could pick up a few tips listening to one of history’s greatest speakers.
Source: Telegraph UK
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What an embarrassing louse. My loathing for another human being couldn’t be any stronger than what I feel for this charlatan, this simpleton, this emptiest of empty suits. I pray that little by little, the whole world awakens to the fraud that is Barack Obama.
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As correctly assessed “this charlatan, this simpleton”..
Vague and empty platitudes..
The hallmarks of all oBlowMe’s great oratory!!
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The difference between the title of leader and being a leader.
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Well, that’s Barry.
Underneath the surface layer of flowery lies and bullshit, there’s a solid foundation of lies and bullshit.
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LMAO Perlcat! When this gas-bag opens his orifices and jettisons gaseous orata, the MSM hangs on his every syllable, but whenever I hear this obnoxious prevaricator, I’m looking for something to wipe my rearend with!
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rotfluidmeyomaeb !!!!! (rolling on the floor laughing until i dropped my enchilada , you owe me an enchilada, buster)
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…and I had the best damn enchiladas in Omaha today — that and a tamale, smothered in a red pork chili so good, after I ate all the food, I licked the plate clean and rolled in it like a dog.
‘course, I do that every friday.
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Uhm… that sounds good.
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Obama campaigned on getting bin Laden? I must have missed that one. Can you show us a link to some documentation of that? Oh, wait,…
This is Olivia. Her word is gospel. I apologize, and bow deeply, backing slowly and respectfully from her highness. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to read your post. It just happened.
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The Brits are quite aware that Obobo returned the bust of Churchill. That he had the nerve to quote Churchill to them must have been quite gallling.
They have perfected the art of “stony silence”, no doubt it was lost on him.
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LOLOLOLOLOL
Oh am sorry, I wasn’t supposed to laugh?
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WAIT!!!! I read and heard that Obama wowed the British Parliament with another greatest speech ever given. No bias in our press. Would you have thought three years ago that you would have to get real news from outside the country?
It’s certainly odd how the smartest preside..man in the history of the universe does so many stupid actions and makes so many screw ups. How could such a mediocre person rise to POTUS without 99% of the media covering up and propping him up? Left is right. Up is down. Ignorance is strength. And by the way your chocolate ration has been increased from thirty grams to twenty-fives grams.
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Haha, LITERATE???? “I umm, when we, ahhh, first came to, like… your country here… we, ahh… hey Michelle be waiting on me, Bill, finish up for me, yo.’
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I wish this fool would simply stay in D.Sleaze. and stop traveling around embarrassing this country. In the US the press will fawn over him and oooh and ahhh every time he so much as flatulates. Or in Chrissy case, pee his pants while fantasizing.
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Not as bad as the daily mail.
I don’t have a problem with a professed bias. It’s the pretending there is no bias when clearly there is that irritates me.
Overall, the source article was pretty fair. I could tell because my “Barry Sense” — a sense of profound irritation at sympathetic coverage of Obama — was grating on my nerves. They were not mocking as we are — just observing that the audience was clearly not responding to it like they may have in the US, what with there being more shills in the audience here. (my words, not theirs…)
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You are correct.. i just read the article and it is not anywhere as damning as the IHTM post characterizes it, and i judged based on my knowledge of the Telegraph’s conservative leanings
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I like the telegraph — but to get the total brit new picture, you have to read the official mouthpiece of their government as well. Problem is, the Beeb is harder to take. Daily Mail is funny, though.
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He thinks it is still 2008. He drinks with his pinky extended. He flubs the toast. He gives a sub-par speech…how embarrassing. I should send another letter to the British Embassy and apologize on behalf of all normal Americans.
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“Now, explain to me how Obama “flubbed the toast,” when it was the musicians who broke into his speech prematurely. Are you now going to claim that Obama arranged with them to interrupt the toast, in hopes of annoying the Queen? @@”
It was explained that the cue for the British National Anthem is always after the words, “Her Majesty, the Queen”.
Obama didn’t get the memo.
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No, the REAL retarded orangutang disaster was when he went on speaking THROUGH THE ANTHEM!!!
The anthem which is, in essence, a PERSONAL salute to HM, who was Sock Puppet’s hostess. So it was a grotesque blunder insulting not only the nation , but the person of Her Majesty.
Pettier nations have gone to war over lesser slights.
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Didn’t get the memo? Again? Hey Satch, Routine 7!
“Absolutely not, this is a pretty big government, the United States government. I got a lot of moving parts.”
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This man embarrasses me so much. I know that Bush was embarrassing sometimes but he at least was fun. Obama is not fun he is irritating.
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Because knowing proper protocol is part of his job.
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Nope, sorry. That doesn’t hold water. The White House has a protocol department charged with instructing the President on the order of events to ensure these things don’t happen. The orchestra didn’t break into his toast, he began speaking too soon. His bad, not the orchestra’s. And only and idiot would continue to speak as if the orchestra was playing God Save the Queen to accompanny his magnificent toast.
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He spoke too soon for what? What was supposed to happen in the intervening timespan? I can see from a simple video search that he’s talking for at least 3 minutes before the music cuts into his toast. Everyone is listening politely as he speaks. Its a simple miscue, which i might add, the British are not in the slightest bit concerned about, as are Obama’s partisan foes at home, who have all suddenly become experts on all matters of Royal protocol. In fact LOL my relatives found it endearing.. perhaps you should lecture them
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A politician talking too much and too long? Man, that’s gotta be news.
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hehe the first time i saw the video, i got the impression he was being played off the stage, and he just hastily wrapped it up. Yeah, awkward. But nothing like CAS’s contention that he spoke too soon. I still don’t understand that point.
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You’re right, I misremembered the length of time he had been speaking. However, he really should have known the orchestra wasn’t playing a soundtrack to his toast – he admitted that’s what he thought was happening.
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right.. a crescendo as the PM later said, for his Shakespearean climax.. lol, its just kinda funny when i think about it. He looks the goofball a bit.. so did Bush at times.. we all have a laugh and move on.
I kinda think you guys are burying the lead here too.. its one of Obama’s characteristic pauses-in-speech which probably led to the miscue
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While Bozo Obummer is emarrassing us in England tornados are wreaking havoc in our country. The Mississippi is flexing its muscles and tens of thousands now have to find someplace else to live and try to earn a living.
I want to know who is really leading our country. Puppets do not work until someone pulls the strings, or sticks their hand in the sock, so who is making Obama dance? We have serious problems in our country and where is our elected leader? On the wrong side of the big pond, making a fool of himself and, by association, us.
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Let’s see here. He could have been touring, and talking to everyone on the ground, in these devastated areas. He could have been urging Congress to approve emergency funds to help the displaced families on the Mississippi river and those left homeless by the tornados in the midwest.
That $20 billion he wants to give to middle eastern countries? Wouldn’t it be better spent at home instead? And, isn’t this lack of response from the White House after Katrina hit the gulf coast the reason you liberals tried to beat up on George Bush? At least Bush stayed home and tried to get all the various, mostly useless, gooberment agencies to work together to help the people. He didn’t run off and hide in England giving boring speeches. He didn’t go to Ireland to suck up the suds with the locals. He stayed home and tried to do what he was elected to do, take care of our country.
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“And, by then, hundreds of New Orleans residents were suffering hugely from the combined effects of heat exposure, dehydration, hunger and lack of medical treatment. (Hundreds of others were dead.)
Good to know that only the NOLA residents counted.
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btw inclusion of Churchill’s words always welcome.. i can listen to this over and over
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Yeah, that Churchill guy. He must have had a really good set of teleprompters to be able to speak the way he did.
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Now I have to clean Mountain Dew out of my keyboard again.
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he did sound like he was hittin the sauce a bit, though.. admirable
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Yes, but in the mornings, he was sober.
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Am I wrong or he hasn’t said anything about the disasters at home? Maybe say he is praying for the victims? Has anyone heard anything like that?
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he said something about it in London a few days back
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Yeah KQ, after Netanyahu mentioned the Missouri tornadoes at the joint conference, dear leader stated that he might be able to grace them with his presence within a week. Such a kind and caring leader.
As far as I know, he never really acknowledged the terrible flooding in Tn. last spring. I could be wrong about that, but I never heard of it, and if it did happen it was after they had time to recover pretty much.
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Nice. So it took the concern of a foreign leader to prompt our dear leader to say something about the welfare of the people whom he is supposed to lead. THEN he preferred to go to Ireland and England and the summit instead of visiting the area first or something. How nice. I remember when Bush got hated on for flying over Katrina hit Louisana, yet he actually cared to do what he could before it hit and after it hit. Clinton actually seemed to care for people when stuff happened too. I mean for real does Obama CARE for us? I don’t think so.
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I’m still wondering how in the world it helps the recovery from a disaster to have the President show up in person. It seems to me like the whole circus would just serve to get in the way of all the hard work that needs to be done.
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Sounds like the British press didnt get the memo from the US press. No bashing barry, he’s the best of all times. Good for them for calling bull shit.
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Obama met Churchill at a party. Churchill was quite drunk. Obama said “You sir are drunk.” Churchill replied “You are correct but you are an arrogant and ignorant ass and tomorrow I will be sober.”
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Maybe he should just bow and then quit while he’s still ahead…
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I got ya two one-liners about that:
“…but he wasn’t done listening to himself speak!”
“…can’t. Has fifteen minutes left on the iPod.”
Take your pick.
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Hafta go with #2 as that at least limits him to 15 minutes. With #1, there is no end in sight….
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true…
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Ok, let’s clear this misunderstanding up right now.
Lissen up, Brit scribblers – If THE ONE says it, it MUST be true!
Otherwise, you’re all dumb racists.
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