Posted on 11/20/2015 10:14:44 AM PST by jazusamo
President Obama discussed America's faults Friday with young Asian leaders, saying the U.S. suffers from "pitfalls" such as income inequality, a political system controlled by the wealthy and political parties divided along racial lines.
Speaking at a town-hall event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mr. Obama said the biggest problem in the U.S. is the influence of the wealthy on the government.
"It is very important to avoid any political system where money overwhelms ideas," said Mr. Obama, who raised a record $1.1 billion for his reelection campaign in 2012. "And the United States politics process has become so expensive and it lasts so long, and even though I was successful at it, we spend hundreds of millions of dollars in television advertising and in all the things that go into a U.S. presidential campaign."
He added, "When politicians have to raise so much money all the time, then they start listening a little bit more to the people who have money, as opposed to ordinary people."
In response to a question from the audience, Mr. Obama also said politics in the U.S. "increasingly is defined by personal attacks and saying very sensational things in the media." He urged young Asian leaders to try "to debate people you disagree with, without saying that they're a terrible person."
The president himself is engaged in a nasty, long-distance debate with Republicans over his plan to accept Syrian refugees in the U.S. He accused GOP opponents this week of being "scared of widows and orphans."
At the town-hall event, Mr. Obama also warned young Asians to guard against racial divisions in politics, saying in the U.S., "it's still an issue that comes up."
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Pitfalls.........you have been running the place for the last 7 years obama.
THAT might be fun to watch!
The Democrat Party and Obama are responsible for all divisions and classifications in the U.S.A.
This POS has a lot of chaos to cause in this last year.
you solve that problem by shrinking the size of the goobermint to what the founding fathers wanted
When Obama finally comes to terms with the fact that he was given a free pass into the White House, he should start to look at the motives of those who put him there (since he faithfully pushed their agenda - so markedly different from that he campaigned on). The end result has been a windfall for secular white liberals, while blacks have faded even further into irrelevance. While he pays lip service to helping them, his own eyes can’t fail to see the disaster he helped wreak upon them.
That’s a spectacular observation / definition. “Bit players in someone else’s world.” They are crying out for relevance instead of achieving it the old-fashioned way — hard work and perseverance.
Thanks, that’s a great graphic.
You’re welcome!
A resident without ID is just RESENT.
That is BH Obutthole to a T.
Exactly; Obama (and those students) are now just the unemployable dregs hurling debris off an overpass at everyone else driving past doing their jobs that make this country run.
This coming from the leader of the party wholely owned by left-wing billionaires.
Right. Japan of course never embarked upon their scheme for area conquest, and never committed ferocious mass murder against China in 1937. We were such bastards to drop those bombs. That’s not who they are. Meanwhile, we in the US are such schnooks, we should commit suicide and invite these hordes of Muslims in.
If this isn’t a bridge too far even for those who think 0bama is just the greatest thing ever, then they are overt traitors looking for America’s downfall.
If the US is so bad why doesn’t that worthless POS just stay in Asia?
Don't worry Obama, China won't do that stupid Affirmative Action crap that empowered a lazy, stupid "community organizer" like you.
Seconded...Let him live out his life where he was born.
’ What a pitiful hypocrite sob we have for a _resident, yet again he rips our country while in a foreign one.’
Exactly what I was thinking. Just who is this guy to lecture any one or any other country about anything to do with good governance?
HE’S living proof that the US is messed up.
Never held a real job, but feels compelled to lecture on subjects he knows nothing about.
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