.Obama to world: Don't expect America to fix it all
UNITED NATIONS – President Barack Obama summoned the world Wednesday to "a new era of engagement" in which every nation shares responsibility for tackling the global challenges of security and prosperity.
"The time has come for the world to move in a new direction," Obama said in his first address to the U.N. General Assembly. "Our work must begin now."
Obama said he will never apologize for defending U.S. interests. But he sought to dispel what he said has become "an almost reflexive anti-Americanism" that has swept the globe.
To do so, Obama offered a litany of policy changes and actions his administration had undertaken during his first nine months in office, with the overarching message that the United States has no interest in a go-it-alone stance and instead wants to act as an equal partner with others on the world stage.
"In an era where our destiny is shared, power is no longer a zero-sum game," Obama said. "No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed. That is the future America wants."
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O is going to become the most hated American president of all time. Telling people that they have to do their part, that's like telling his health care reform supporters that getting coverage meant they would have to pay $8000.00 a year and that they were going to have that payment taken out of their paychecks by the IRS....People love America because we do, they might complain and claim to hate the imperial America, but that's just a cover to save face. What they really want is for America to go forth an do, and ask for nothing in return.
"The time has come for the world to move in a new direction," Obama said in his first address to the U.N. General Assembly. "Our work must begin now."
Obama said he will never apologize for defending U.S. interests. But he sought to dispel what he said has become "an almost reflexive anti-Americanism" that has swept the globe.
To do so, Obama offered a litany of policy changes and actions his administration had undertaken during his first nine months in office, with the overarching message that the United States has no interest in a go-it-alone stance and instead wants to act as an equal partner with others on the world stage.
"In an era where our destiny is shared, power is no longer a zero-sum game," Obama said. "No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed. That is the future America wants."
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O is going to become the most hated American president of all time. Telling people that they have to do their part, that's like telling his health care reform supporters that getting coverage meant they would have to pay $8000.00 a year and that they were going to have that payment taken out of their paychecks by the IRS....People love America because we do, they might complain and claim to hate the imperial America, but that's just a cover to save face. What they really want is for America to go forth an do, and ask for nothing in return.
posted by madtom at 10:18 AM
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Hardly the same thing. Saying you will use the power of the state to imprison you if you refuse to purchase am insurance policy mandated by the state isn't nearly the same as telling the rest of the world you aren't going to solve their problems (though you can bet your ass he would propose to do if he had any chance of political success at home and there was any money to do it with). That UN speech was typical O, hollow rhetoric to demonstrate his moral superiority backed up by---nothing. I noticed he did get a big round of applause when he proposed taking back Israeli territory. He got nada when he proposed fight smallpox and other killer diseases in impoverished countries. That tells you all you should want to know. O is the perfect man for the chairmanship (which is unconstitutional, but who cares?)
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