Kid falls asleep during Obama speech [View All]

[kpete]

Run time: 01:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDVTHbvcwGs   Posted on YouTube: June 08, 2010 By YouTube Member: EIROResearchGlobal Views on YouTube: 18779   Posted on DU: June 09, 2010 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 844

 
AN America choir boy who fought - and failed - to stay awake as President Barack Obama delivered the commencement address at his high school has became an internet sensation.

Mr Obama's speech at Kalamazoo Central High School, in Michigan, on Monday, clearly had a soporific effect on the student, who was captured on video nodding off as the President spoke about the importance of hard work and responsibility.

The video, which quickly became a YouTube hit, and has amassed over 3000 fans on a specially dedicated Facebook page shows the choir member's head dropping forward in an apparent deep slumber, before he is jolted awake by the sound of applause.

Despite a heroic effort on his behalf to stay awake by blinking and yawning, he then apparently succumbs to sleep once again, as Mr Obama continues his address two rows in front - oblivious to the less-than-rapt audience member.
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