Posted on 11/08/2010 12:55:13 PM PST by bestintxas
Implicitly acknowledging the decline of American dominance, Barack Obama on Sunday said the US was no longer in a position to "meet the rest of the world economically on our terms".
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Mumbai, he said, "I do think that one of the challenges that we are going face in the US, at a time when we are still recovering from the financial crisis is, how do we respond to some of the challenges of globalisation? The fact of the matter is that for most of my lifetime and I'll turn 50 next year - the US was such an enormously dominant economic power, we were such a large market, our industry, our technology, our manufacturing was so significant that we always met the rest of the world economically on our terms. And now because of the incredible rise of India and China and Brazil and other countries, the US remains the largest economy and the largest market, but there is real competition."
"This will keep America on its toes. America is going to have to compete. There is going to be a tug-of-war within the US between those who see globalisation as a threat and those who accept we live in a open integrated world, which has challenges and opportunities."
The US leader disagreed with those who saw globalisation as unmitigated evil. But while acknowledging that the Chindia factor had made the world flatter, he said protectionist impulses in US will get stronger if people don't see trade bringing in gains for them.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
It’s the Obama Doctrine!
He just wants to be President of the World....
America will rise again, but Obamao’s cowardly rule is at an end.
I think this $200,000,000 per day Indian subcontinent extravaganza was his going-away present to himself.
I think when he comes back he is going to be met by a Watergate-style contingent of Democrat operatives telling him that it is time to resign or be indicted.
The only thing that has declined in America is Obama and his Democrats. The rest of us will over come the Democrat idiocy and succeed.
Mission accomplished.
I believe the Indian people and their government understands that we have a weak President but the American people are not weak and won’t put up with him much longer. If they put much faith in him now, they will regret it later.
Don't let 2012 hit you in your Marxist philosophy on the way out
I join with you in that hope and expectation.
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The same goes for criminal cases that, should, go against the criminal. In most states, you can’t pick the judge you want, the court clerk assigns the judge. So if you want a certain judge, all you have to do is get to the court clerk......one way or another. That way, the criminal has a good chance of getting off. All depends on how much you want to pay.
To the World,
OBAMA DOES NOT SPEAK FOR ME.
I am,
.... an AMERICAN
Republicans, on the other hand, generally are too busy making sure it doesn't happen to have time for such fatuous remarks.
Or, is it just me that thinks so?
While on foreign soil the bastard Obama assails our history and insults every American “patriot”. Now he further minimizes our country’s status in the eyes of world and in doing so, he emboldens our enemies and undermines our security, finding even more ways to describe us as a Paper Tiger.
Can anyone imagine President Reagan uttering such words, painting us so weak and venerable, and frankly, so worthless?
Obama is such a useless and incompetent coward.
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