Something wrong with that boy.




http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/12/obama-mentions-himself-45-times-during-memorial-speech-for-dallas-officers/
Obama Mentions Himself 45 Times During Memorial Speech For Dallas Officers

President Obama referred to himself 45 times over the course of the speech
he delivered Tuesday at the memorial service for the five police officers
killed in Dallas last week.

Obama referred to himself twice before finishing his opening salutations
and before mentioning the slain officers or their families. After noting
the presence of President Bush, members of Congress and Dallas mayor Mike
Rawlings, Obama appeared to go off-script.

“Chief Brown, I’m so glad I met Michelle first because she loves Stevie
Wonder,” Obama said, jokingly referencing Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s
earlier speech in which Brown quoted lyrics from the song “As” in tribute
to the deceased. The president looked around the room, pointed at Brown and
cracked a grin while the audience laughed at and applauded his joke. “Most
of all, the families…” Obama said, proceeding with his speech.

Obama would refer to himself 43 more times throughout the speech — most of
which he personally wrote
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-live-updates-obama-speak-service-obama-consulted-scripture-in-preparing-1468347839-htmlstory.html>,
according to the LA Times — including one instance where he referred to
himself in the third-person: “the president.”

“Politicians calculate how to grab attention or avoid the fallout. We see
all this, and it’s hard not to think sometimes that the center won’t hold.
And that things might get worse. I understand. I understand how Americans
are feeling. But, Dallas, I’m here to say we must reject such despair,” he
said later.

“I’m here to insist that we are not as divided as we seem. And I know that
because I know America. I know how far we’ve come against impossible odds.
I know we’ll make it because of what I’ve experienced in my own life. What
I’ve seen of this country and its people, their goodness and decency as
president of the United States,” he continued.

The president also referred to himself while lamenting the apparent
inefficacy of his own rhetoric. “I’ve seen how inadequate my own words can
be,” he said.

The president has faced scrutiny in the past for his habit of talking about
himself during national speeches
<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watch-obama-name-drops-himself-76-times-in-gun-speech/article/2579662>
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