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This looks more like a 'legacy' statement, where the president is trying to emphasize how much he has done in the arena of space exploration, and what his contribution has been.

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So it's just bluster.

>Bluster: loud, aggressive, or indignant talk with little effect.

Uh, no.

You're right. He wasn't aggressive about it.

Yup, yet I got downvoted heavily. I'll just take this to mean hackernews people aren't very knowledgeable about vocabulary

There's an "or" in your definition, so...

For the record, you think Obama was being "loud, aggressive, or indignant"?

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