Posted on 11/21/2015 11:37:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Obama spoke to a group of young Southeast Asian leaders Friday in Malaysia and warned them about about avoiding the "pitfalls" the United States suffers from, the Washington Times reports.
Human Rights Watch says on its main Malaysia page that the country’s government has engaged in a "strong crackdown on civil and political rights, including charging organizers of peaceful demonstrations. Though he had promised to repeal the Sedition Act, Prime Minister Najib Razak pushed through amendments to strengthen it, as well as a repressive counterterror law."
Obama, however, warned the leaders about such American weaknesses as racial divides, income inequality, harsh partisanship and a political system dominated by the wealthy.
"Right now, our political system does not work as well as it should," Obama said. "And what I would say to young leaders, what sort of pitfalls should you avoid, I would say, number one, it is very important to avoid any political system where money overwhelms ideas. 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."
Obama added that politics in the U.S. was increasingly defined by "personal attacks and saying very sensational things to the media." It should be noted that Obama reamed Republicans this week during his overseas trip, implying they were cowards for their rhetoric about putting a pause on Syrian refugees entering the country.
He also said the race issue in the U.S. "has been very prominent" historically and warned against organizing political parties or interest groups on ethnic lines.
No and they’d better get him out this next election. Get as many as possible, replaced, this next election. Somehow, we have to get the club in Washington broken up.
Trumps numbers haven’t told them a single thing... and it’s time they either wise up or get out. They position themselves as above all of us.. we do not have a monarchy.. though they have worked it so they live like there is one. Every bill they pass, they should live under.. and they don’t! Do you reckon Trump could manage to change that? wouldn’t that be something to behold?!! To elect someone they don’t want, and then put them on notice it’s not business as usual.
Smile at the thought!
It’s not the many lowlife scumbags we have as candidates, it’s the electorate which is corrupted beyond belief. In a sane society, the lowlife wacko candidates would be run off the stage, on both sides.
Since the 60s, the education system has been infiltrated/compromised by socialists/commies, who also founded the environment movement, infiltrated politics, unions, courts, military, gov’t, religion etc etc etc, to a point where we’re almost unrecognizable nation, from what I remember in the 50s/early-60s.
Born in ‘49, I graduated college in ‘71, and saw many of the ones following me to be affected by socialist theory in schools, and many of the ones following them, to be indoctrinated by it. I was stunned by all the grabbed-up freebies 0bummer promised to them, and they gladly accepted.
I don’t know how long it’ll take to “fix” it, or if it even can be fixed. You’re probably right: “Not any time soon.”
He must of warned them of the dangers of an ignorant electorate, that votes for stupid, impotent, narcissistic, community organizers, to high political positions.
This arrogant creature played the race card to win Our Whitehouse with the help of a complicit media. From day one, this creature has travelled the world telling them how terrible we are.
When have you ever heard of a sitting president talking sh## about his own country in a foreign country. TREASONOUS! TREASONOUS!
Well, just d@mn!
Who can argue with that?
The fish rots from the head.
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