Obama To World: ONE LOVE

President Obama said that the U.S. needs the help of other nations in tackling the world's problems and cannot go it alone, during his forty-minute address to the U.N. General Assembly today. He called upon other nations to respond to the call, saying that the world needed "a global response to global problems."

Obama's approach was visibly different from the impatient and confrontational tone of his predecessor or even Obama's own recent health care speech to Congress. He even explicitly refuted the Sarah Palin's American Exceptionalism: "No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed."

He did note, however, that Anti-Americanism at the U.N. had often become an excuse for inaction: "Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone. We have sought in word and deed a new era of engagement with the world. And now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges." One Love, Si se puede, etc.

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By John Kuhner in News on September 23, 2009 4:20 PM

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EastRiver

Bush was the excuse for the rest of the world to not do things they were never going to do anyway.

GOP

Yawn. Such biased "reporting": "impatient and confrontational tone of his predecessor"

Yawn. Wake me up when Obama stops blaming America for the world's problems.

John Kuhner

What I meant by that was that there were no moments in the Obama speech like this, where he "confronts" a nation's delegation directly and tells them that they "must" be compelled to do something, and do it quickly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV-OYEDN7os&feature=related

That doesn't mean such actions are always bad, mind you! Sometimes people need to be confronted, and sometimes you ought to be impatient. Obama was doing neither.

Seems fact-based enough for me.

Qraymond

John, I really don't think you need to further clarify, although it's classy that you went to the effort.

Seriously, the whole reason most Republicans voted for Bush was precisely for his "impatient and confrontational tone" with the rest of the world.

That's what you bastards SIGNED US UP FOR. The whole point of his presidency was to thumb America's nose towards the international rule of law.

Don't act like the guy was a soft, furry, misunderstood Carebear.

linus809

Actually, Obama is not blaming America for the world's problems, he's essentially blaming the world for their inaction.

He's blaming the world for the world's problems.

And he's telling them to put up or shut up. You go, BO!

Qraymond

Your false sense of detachment is completely unconvincing.

jpeditor

Summary of Ø's speech during the UN stop on his World Apology & Blame America Tour:

I am not Bush

Israel sucks

jihadis are just misunderstood

I apologize for Amerikkka

I am not Bush

Israel sucks

jihadis are just misunderstood

I apologize for Amerikkka

I am not Bush

Israel sucks

jihadis are just misunderstood

I apologize for Amerikkka

Qraymond

I do not believe your tinfoil hat is functioning as promised.

jpeditor

I take it back - perhaps you WROTE it.

Qraymond

Maybe YOU wrote it, but while you were under the effects of a mind altering drug that the CIA/World Bank administered to you during a covert mission.

THINK ABOUT IT MAN.

jpeditor

"THINK ABOUT IT MAN."

hey MAN, look it up on the WH WEBSITE, moron.

jpeditor

I don't believe you read or listened to the speech.

Qraymond

Actually I read the whole speech very carefully.

I got a completely different message from it though, because I cannot hear the additional secret messages the U.N. encodes in the transmission for people like you.