Exactly. He did not say don’t tear down American. Just don’t talk about it so openly.
In “Rules for Radicals” Saul Alinsky wrote that radicals should try to look respectable and avoid saying what they intend to do when they gain power because it would frighten the voters. 0bama is an Alinsky-trained leftist and he is trying to remind the radicals to keep their mouths shut. But, the radicals are the “have nots” for good reason. They are insane and that does not bring prosperity without theft or other wrong doing.