Posted on 05/25/2016 4:14:53 AM PDT by dennisw
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Wrapping up a historic visit to Vietnam, U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday praised the country’s next generation of leaders for being more conscious of the environment than previous generations and urged them to “do something about” climate change.
During his final public event here, Obama basked in the admiration of hundreds of young leaders who participated in a town hall-style event and prefaced some of their questions to him with praise about his leadership and his “inspiring speeches.”
Obama used a question about preserving a Vietnamese cave from development to pivot to climate change, one of his top issues as president. He said Vietnam will be one of the countries most affected by the trend of warming temperatures and rising seas.
“That could have a huge impact on Vietnam’s ability to feed its people, on fishermen, on farmers, and it could be a really big problem if we don’t do something about it, so it’s going to be up to you to start,” said Obama, who routinely includes question-and-answer sessions with young leaders on his foreign trips.
“One of the great things about your generation is that you’re already much more conscious about the environment than my generation was or previous generations were,” said Obama. He told a previous questioner that he “fooled around a lot” and wasn’t serious about school when he was young.
“I was more into basketball and girls. I wasn’t always that serious,” Obama said. “You’re already way ahead of me. That’s good.”
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Obama also promoted a 12-nation, trans-Pacific trade pact that includes Vietnam but is stalled in the U.S. Congress and opposed by the three leading U.S. presidential candidates. But he avoided wading too deeply into politics when asked where he sees himself and the world in five years, around the end of his successor’s first term. Obama has said on previous occasions that world leaders ask him all the time about the unpredictable election.
Did Obama warn them that global warming might cause their monks to burst into flames?
How embarrassing for the U.S.?
The people of the world think we are fools and now the “prince of clowns” Obama proves it to them!!!!!!!!!!
How come Obama didn’t insist on tranny bathrooms in Vietnam?
I hope they tackle it by invading China.
His legacy will have to be dumbed up. The American people should think of it as a joke, which it is.
“Obama urges Vietnam youth to tackle climate change”
When you are worried about where your next meal is going to come from its hard to do more than just that. Obama is living in fantasy land, if he thinks third world communist/socialist utopian states are concerned about saving the environment.
I wonder if Obama knows the chemical formula for Carbon dioxide.
I’m surprised he didn’t urge them to convert to Islam.
Didn’t he say that the US was one of the great Muslim nations?
I believe the part about basketball.
And I still can't believe he's serious.
The people of Vietnam are oppressed by a communist dictator. They live on $1,900 per person annually. They have harsh penalties for speech or online comments that do not meet with the Party’s approval. Mass arrests are common. Christians are systematically persecuted. Any normal person would think they had far bigger problems than weather variations.
Our Dear Leader is, to put it mildly, not normal. Obama sees in Vietnam a country exactly like he wishes America could be, and so he encourages yet another distraction from the real problems to give their government one more excuse to grab absolute power. Vietnam’s communists are thrilled to have a visit from our communist. Obama is the first American to give those thugs even more help than Jane Fonda delivered.
Obama is a bigger threat to America than Vietnam is.
Obama is a complete moron.
Vietnam doesn’t worry about climate change.
It’s 8 degrees above the equator, it’s warm all the time and the only climate change they have is monsoon and no monsoon.
Obama reminds me of a medical student, who poses as a doctor to unsuspecting patients.
He’s goofy and he’s a bastard.
The world laughs at us.
*PUKE*
Commies recognizing one of their own.
Obama and Climate Change reminds me of the story of Caligula’s war with Neptune
“Catch me if you can”...Leonardo DeCraprio
Pretty sure they have to worry about FEEDING themselves and housing themselves FIRST, you dumbass.
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