A Divisive Obama Warns of Threats to National Unity in Farewell Speech

Art credit: Gary Locke via Weekly Standard
Art credit: Gary Locke via Weekly Standard

BY LARRY O’CONNOR

President Obama delivered a valedictory speech Tuesday night in his adopted hometown of Chicago before an adoring throng of 18,000 attendees.

Enraptured by his own oft-celebrated eloquence, Obama took his good time soaking in the love by delivering a speech that, according to the Washington Examiner, clocked in at longer than Ronald Reagan’s, Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s farewell addresses … combined.

Obama’s lecture on political unity cynically, (and apparently unironically) employed divisive and polarizing rhetorical devices designed to isolate those who would disagree with the president’s analysis:

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