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Posted on 10/03/2012 8:53:57 AM PDT by Qbert
In the wake of the Daily Caller’s release of President Obama cheering Rev. Wright and invoking the race card in various ways, our friend Morgen Richmond decided the time was right to release some little-known Obama video of his own. He authorized me to release the video here first.
The following clips are from 2002. Obama is speaking in a church at a 2002 Martin Luther King Jr. Day memorial service.
The full speech is here, and by and large it is a nice speech by a rising politician. Obama speaks about the need for empathy in society, about taking responsibility for our actions, and the audacity of hope. He levels barbs at the wealthy and unempathetic, but also criticizes those who blame the system for the arrest of O.J. Simpson and the crack epidemic. Although the audio quality is poor because of the echo in the church, one can tell that Obama is well spoken and articulate. Joe Biden would have been proud.
But there are a few times when the mask slips, just a little.
My favorite clip is this one, where he speaks of Dr. King’s philosophy of non-violence, and explains that it works only when there is empathy:
Transcript:
The philosophy of nonviolence only makes sense if the powerful can be made to recognize themselves in the powerless. It only makes sense if the powerless can be made to recognize themselves in the powerful. You know, the principle of empathy gives broader meaning, by the way, to Dr. King’s philosophy of nonviolence. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want. They want to make sure people don’t take their stuff. But the principle of empathy recognizes that there are more subtle forms of violence to which we are answerable. The spirit of empathy condemns not only the use of firehoses and attack dogs to keep people down but also accountants and tax loopholes to keep people down. I’m not saying that what Enron executives did to their employees is the moral equivalent of what Bull Connor did to black folks, but I’ll tell you what, the employees at Enron feel violated. When a company town sees its plant closing because some distant executives made some decision despite the wage concessions, despite the tax breaks, and they see their entire economy collapsing, they feel violence . . .
And the class warfare talk never ends.
What Obama really thought about the Clinton years. Quote: “Among African American males, one third to one fourth caught up in the criminal justice system, so that the number of young men incarcerated exceeded the number enrolled in colleges and universities. Throughout the nation inequality up, trust in mutuality down . . . the evidence was there if we cared to look.”
Obama on empathy, the powerful, and the prison industrial complex. Quote: “It’s hard to imagine that the powerful in our society would tolerate the burgeoning prison industrial complex if they imagined that the black men and Latino men that are being imprisoned were something like their sons.”
Local funding of schools is “fundamentally unjust.” Quote: “And Illinois, like many states in the country, has an education system that is funded by property taxes. It is fundamentally unjust. So you have folks up in Winnetka, pupils who are getting five times as much money per student as students in the South Side of Chicago.”
The full clip on YouTube.
If you use any of these clips or transcripts, please credit Morgen, and mention that you saw them here first.
That is the best suggestion I have ever heard. A nice passive, non-violent, solution.
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Sadly, this video, like almost everything else that casts Obama in a bad light, will never see the light of day. As the saying goes, "if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, ...".
That's right and reason this stuff doesn't stick is there is no daily carpet bombing from the MSM about it.
This actually helps Barry because he can filibuster about race tonight during the debate. A good chunk of the debate time tonight will be wasted now. Great job Hannity/DC.
It will basically take a total break-down of civilized society to wake the “Obama-phone” crowd up. They will freak out and raise holy hell because they have no idea how to take care of themselves.
I used to have one of those until I lost it in a boating accident.
So ask your self .... what is the presupposition in this statement? Let me help you.... “ Rich people are all for nonviolence... They’ve got what they want.” SO.. if you do not have what you want... Violence IS something that you can be all for” That is what that statement says without saying it.
riri ~ He hates everyone. He's getting even with the mother and father who rejected and abandoned him.
No it doesn't. 269-269 baby!
AMEN!!!
I remember back in 2000 after the election and we sat in wait mode for the supreme court, there were many demonstrations in DC. At one of them my then 7th grade son was punched... later when I told dem friends of mine, they asked what he had done to make the adult hit him. Really? I’m still incredulous... but no longer surprised when I hear them add caveats to their belief in non-violent interactions lol
Election day is Constitutionally fixed, IIRC...
But tax day is not.
It would be much more apropos to move tax day to Oct 31.
The Naked Emperor is a Naked Marxist.
I’m so sick of these worthless whiners.
How come noone has seen this til now?
I’ll go along with that and add that automatic withholding be stopped and everyone will have to actually WRITE their check to the government on April 15.
” - - - but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want.”
IOW: if you want to be rich then you have to take it violently from somebody else. Wealth is a zero sum game.
BTW, is ENVY the basis for class warfare? If so, it is small wonder that ENVY is prohibited in The Ten Commandments.
Liberals are driven by a need to help.
Liberals believe that rich people do not need help.
Liberals believe that poor people do need help.
So the sooner the Liberals can make the rich people poor,
The sooner the Liberals can help them.
The philosophy of nonviolence only makes sense if the powerful The United States and countries like Israel, can be made to recognize themselves in the powerless. It only makes sense if the powerless countries like Iran and Libya can be made to recognize themselves in the powerful.
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