Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union; representatives of our NATO Alliance; distinguished guests: We meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States, and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build.
Throughout human history, societies have grappled with fundamental questions of how to organize themselves, the proper relationship between the individual and the state, the best means to resolve inevitable conflicts between states. And it was here in Europe, through centuries of struggle — through war and Enlightenment, repression and revolution — that a particular set of ideals began to emerge: The belief that through conscience and free will, each of us has the right to live as we choose. The belief that power is derived from the consent of the governed, and that laws and institutions should be established to protect that understanding. And those ideas eventually inspired a band of colonialists across an ocean, and they wrote them into the founding documents that still guide America today, including the simple truth that all men — and women — are created equal.
But those ideals have also been tested — here in Europe and around the world. Those ideals have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of power. This alternative vision argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign. Often, this alternative vision roots itself in the notion that by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, some are inherently superior to others, and that individual identity must be defined by “us” versus “them,” or that national greatness must flow not by what a people stand for, but by what they are against.
Considered in their full context, President Obama’s mentions to ordinary men and women being “too small-minded to govern their own affairs” and order and progress being possible only “when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign” are clearly references to an old, undesirable form of power, not an expression of President Obama’s viewpoint about how things are or should be in the world today.
so clever editing to tell a lie.
This should not be necessary, surely there is enough legitimate proof that you don't have to make shit up?
Or you could just own up and admit that this entire speech was a pack of lies and his 8 years were EXACTLY going against the will of the people. The EU dumping millions of INVADERS into Europe AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Obamacare DESTROYING HEALTH CARE. DOUBLING OF THE NATIONAL DEBT after accusing BUSH AND REPUBLICANS for doing the same.
You're a faggot and he is a fucking liar and a total failure.
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Kannibal ago
Actual speech not at Bildeberg , but at Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Belgium
Full speech here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxLTn6TNaA
relevant section at 3m00s
https://youtu.be/qCxLTn6TNaA?t=3m2s
Larger transcript show OP is twisting the words
source: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/26/remarks-president-address-european-youth
Considered in their full context, President Obama’s mentions to ordinary men and women being “too small-minded to govern their own affairs” and order and progress being possible only “when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign” are clearly references to an old, undesirable form of power, not an expression of President Obama’s viewpoint about how things are or should be in the world today.
so clever editing to tell a lie.
This should not be necessary, surely there is enough legitimate proof that you don't have to make shit up?
Oh_Well_ian ago
Or you could just own up and admit that this entire speech was a pack of lies and his 8 years were EXACTLY going against the will of the people. The EU dumping millions of INVADERS into Europe AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Obamacare DESTROYING HEALTH CARE. DOUBLING OF THE NATIONAL DEBT after accusing BUSH AND REPUBLICANS for doing the same.
You're a faggot and he is a fucking liar and a total failure.
ORWELLIAN NEWSPEAK
Kannibal ago
then you should post shit without making shit up
making shit up discredits you
Oh_Well_ian ago
Don't worry, gatekeeper, I can handle it.
The post is 100% accurate. Nothing is MADE UP. He said it VERBATIM.
You are actually the one who believes that NEWSPEAK he spewed and are defending it.
You are making shit up. Not me.
Kannibal ago
Not verbatim, because the words that came before and that come after re-frame and change the meaning of what he said.
thus the meaning of the segment you use is different than what you say it is, regardless of how much you whine about it.
Oh_Well_ian ago
Get Obama's dick out of your mouth. Even if you take him at his word, he LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING IN THAT SPEECH.
He did the EXACT OPPOSITE. Only when it's parsed out ( just what I did / WORD FOR WORD ) is the TRUTH apparent.
My headline exposed the actually reality of his ACTIONS.
ORWELL 1984 -- read it
Kannibal ago
no it didn't
it was totally ineffective and unconvincing because you shitposted a lie to make your point.
so a troll, and idiot, or a super duper double agent
Oh_Well_ian ago
shut up... You're hated on Voat, faggot..
Go suck some more Obama dick... He's going to GITMO... maybe you can write ?
Kannibal ago
like I really care
and which is why your comments to me are getting downvoated
and my comments to you are getting upvoated.