Posted on 06/07/2017 7:40:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is decision time for a world order based on liberal values, former U.S. president Barack Obama said Tuesday in Montreal, where he issued a rousing call for citizens everywhere to defend its gains.
Obama painted a stark picture of the global upheaval wrought by globalization, technological advances and climate change.
He suggested that the progress made since the end of the Second World War is threatened by an unwillingness to adapt to social change.
"It's been clear for some time that the world is at an inflection point," he told a crowd of some 6,000 who packed the Palais des Congrés, a downtown convention centre.
At such critical moments in history, he said, there is a temptation "go backwards instead of forwards." The appeal of isolationism and populism, he said, is understandable as people look for certainty in uncertain times.
"But in this time we cannot stand still," Obama said. "We have to act with greater urgency and greater conviction."
'Democracy is hard'
The speech carried forward a theme that recurred often in the final months of his presidency, the importance of civic engagement at both the local and international level.....
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Well he’s out of the closet.
He is demanding a Global Communist government.
His idea of civic engagement seems to be rioting.
So much for the time-honored tradition of American Presidents retiring from public life. Another tradition Obama killed was that American politics used to end t the shore and we did not let foreign nations meddle in our politics.
Obama is a classless boob that belongs in prison.
Always a Slow Learner, we just had that vote 7 months ago, YOU LOST A#@HOLE!!
Democrats only want traditions honored when it benefits them.
you gots to resist, my niggas. There I translated it
It would be great to see this clown finally locked up in a cell at Gitmo as an enemy combatant. I don’t care if he’s black or green, he’s a criminal and a traitor to this great nation.
Obozo isn’t really ever going to go away, is he? I would tell him what to do to himself, but he would probably enjoy it.
What a poser. Would he be happier if America had KEPT every inch of land, all around the globe, that we’ve LIBERATED through the decades via American Blood & Treasure? Man, we would be one amazing ‘Empire’ had we CONSIDERED doing that! But that darn, ‘Democracy’ thing...
FUBO. FU. And, STFU.
America chose to go another direction. Thank god.
Did he get his usual 4 million for this speech too?
So Obama is now trying to become “The Foremost Authority”?
This is one abject retromingent fool—but we knew that. Note how he speaks in broad generalities, never specifying what he really means, nor what the “change or goal” is. Eight years of this bastard was too many.
GWB was waaaay too respectful of Obama. ‘I think he deserves my silence’. Bammy just cannot shut up! What a classless a**.
who wrote that speech for him? Marx? or Engels? or Soros?
An “inflection point”. Really?
For those who don’t understand big-small words, this may sound intelligent.
With no understanding of how anything works successfully, Obama spews forth streams of nonsensical blather.
People on both sides will eventually start disapearing.
Wasn’t it obvious how Trump courted the Military during the campaign and has Generals in key roles.
BARACK OBAMA - President without a legacy.
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