{"id":2810,"date":"2012-12-23T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:52:12","slug":"true-leadership-at-senator-daniel-inouye-funeral-obama-mentions-himself-63-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2810","title":{"rendered":"True leadership: At Senator Daniel Inouye funeral, Obama mentions himself 63 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/span>: Even a writer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Slate<\/a> &#8211; normally big Obama supporters &#8211; are <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">outraged<\/span> disturbed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2012\/12\/barack_obama_s_eulogy_to_daniel_inouye_told_us_more_about_the_president.single.html\" target=\"_self\">Today We Are Gathered \u2026 To Hear More About Me<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Inouye#Military_service_.281941.E2.80.931947.29\" target=\"_self\">Inouye<\/a>, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Italy in 1945. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/obama-uses-funeral-service-talk-about-himself_690960.html\" target=\"_self\">President Barack Obama used the funeral for Hawaii senator Daniel Inouye to talk about himself. In the short 1,600 word speech, Obama used the word &quot;my&quot; 21 times, &quot;me&quot; 12 times, and &quot;I&quot; 30 times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you hit the link and read the article, it&#39;s really pretty revolting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Even a writer at Slate &#8211; normally big Obama supporters &#8211; are outraged disturbed Today We Are Gathered \u2026 To Hear More About Me Inouye, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Italy in 1945. President Barack Obama used the funeral for Hawaii senator Daniel Inouye to talk about himself. In the short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8533,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/8533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}