And so while Obama used the woman, he couldn't be bothered to use her name.

That's not a fundraiser, it's a wake.

Obama's unashamed preoccupation and admiration of self is alarming!

Me Me ME ME ... an opera singer warming up or the One giving any speech on any topic. I wonder if he writes this on his hand.

Do you folks know the meaning of irony? Did you cry when Bush went to his hundred republican fundraisers? No? Then stop crying now.

BTW, via a commenter at Ace's, here's the unnamed-by-the-President-woman's story:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/deathsobituaries/story/B800B952053456C7862576C000092F86?OpenDocument

A leftist who wouldn't pay the $5,000 deductible for treatment after setting up a business, and who, apparently, couldn't get any money for it from all of her family and friends combined.

Ric:

Hi, Mom.

Set You Free - perfect!

Kate, nice shout-out to you by Steyn on the Corner

re Redneck Teleprompter

Whoops - totally wrong thread sorry!

Ric is offended.....

At least so far there are no reports of OBOZO renting out WH bedrooms to foreign VIPs. Clinton's used that as a fund raiser a lot.

Apparently Michelle had a veggie garden. End of summer, hosted some TV cooking guru, to deal with the harvest. The WH cooks rejected the produce as substandard. Michelle like a lot of greenies has no idea how much work and how little produce results from a domestic garden.

I have a little plot to provide fresh lettuce, green onions and a few raddishes.

This man is a vulgarian.

The messiah is just proud that he'll soon have his very own martyr.

In the words of William Wallace through Mel Gibson: "All men die, but some men never really live."

For the President to invoke the vision of a corpse (pronounced using the 'p' sound) of a dead woman, in a coffin, wearing a it-shirt with his own name on it is a perversion of the word, morbid, IMO. This obsession with self seems to be a Progressives/far left wingers trait, they do not put any value on the lives or work of their supporters unless the deed is in relation to the positive market value of themselves. "You have to break a few eggs (heads) to make an omelette", the civil war cry of Bolsheviks.

Jema, all presidents have to have an above-average ego to start with, but Obama's narcissism is on a level I've never seen before. If Bill Clinton had told a story like that, you can be damn sure he would've told the woman's name.

One has to think that in 50 years time Americans will look back in disgust that they gave this empty suit the honor of being their first black president.

Wow. Using the dead for more political gain.

"Bring out your dead. Bring out your dead."

The T-shirt apparently was the best part of the deal for this poor woman stumping for Obama. In the end, she got neither treatment, a worthwhile president, nor the respect she's entitled to by the man who's name is on the t-shirt.

A Democratic lose-lose-lose story.

At the end the audience laughed, while the confused president sniffled,and bit his lip.

He was certain he had said something profound.
Where did they get this doofus?

When they start laughing AT you, the jig is up.

eastern paul, I caught that too. The president looked confused, and more than a little annoyed at the laughter. To label this man a doofus is being charitable. That both the president, and his handlers thought the T-shirt line was an appropriate story to tell speaks volumes about their disconnect from reality.

Yes, he looked *hurt* and shocked that they laughed at him. heh.

He appeared not even able to remember the word mammogram,me thinks the prez has been going over the top with his glaucoma treatments.

and Obo ONLY spent 170 million on his inauguration, so please give the poor spend thrift a break will ya, he couldn't afford to give this supporter 5 G's towards her health care!!!!

@grok

Chicago politicians have used dead people for political gain for years.

He pauses at all the same spots as that character on Tv that would say, "bla bla bla lie lie lies .... yeah, yeah that's the ticket"
I'm somewhat amused by his grabbing that "today" out of thin air... when he received the letter, er, note .

I had read that in Missouri, mammogram's are covered by state health insurance, and that the woman had kept catastrophic coverage in her health plan.

So again, I say that B.Hussien is lying, and that's what he does best.
Jema 54, correcto.

Obama without his crutch/teleprompter sounds more and more like porky pig every day.I know that sounds offensive,him being Muslim and all.

This video seems to be a good example of that opportunistic Negro dialect Harry Reid was so impressed by. It certainly connected with the registerd voters in attendance.

What Violet said.
Perhaps Obama should host the Oscars. After all, self-important actors patting themselves on the back and making ridiculous, self-serving speeches is something he knows quite a bit about.

Maybe he could have written her name on the palm of his hand!!!!

Maureen
Too funny!

Should we be looking for miracles surrounding Obama? For latter canonization?

He's thinner, not as cool and giddy.
More narcissistic and self absorbed.
And his disconnect and disrespect for the dead is apparent....again.
His friend Oprah must be in shock. I find her to be a bit over the top, but she does not use the dead to shine her buttons.

The man is in serious trouble. I'm not going to attempt any amateur psychiatric analysis here, but I think he is unstable.
JMHO.
The worst case scenario?
Biden would have to fill in if he breaks.

Was it wet?

I watched that video clip and was left shaking my head. First you could tell he did not have the teleprompter by the uuums and aaahs and stutters. If he had the person's name would have been on it and he could have truly honored her.

Second - his recounting of the story did not have the "ring of truth" to the extent that even some in his live audience thought he was kidding and actually laughed.

I agree with those who say that Chairman O was pulling one out of his a$$. Without a name - who can prove him wrong?

I'm tempted to review the video, but seem oddly embarrassed by it all. I'd sooner move on and hope it was all a big misunderstanding.

I think nameless, faceless dead people in Obama t-shirts is a fantastic idea.

Let's run with that one.

Even the dead must serve the revolution. Some will contribute more after death than while they lived if they can be artfully dispatched and the blame attached to one's political enemies. No doubt "O" is aware that continually disappointing the rabidly leftist crazies among his supporters will eventually be construed to his detriment.

Loses its effect when you don't cut it off at the end, Kate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zia-zoANZw