Posted on 06/07/2017 7:40:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is decision time for a world order based on liberal values, former U.S. president Barack Obama said Tuesday in Montreal, where he issued a rousing call for citizens everywhere to defend its gains.
Obama painted a stark picture of the global upheaval wrought by globalization, technological advances and climate change.
He suggested that the progress made since the end of the Second World War is threatened by an unwillingness to adapt to social change.
"It's been clear for some time that the world is at an inflection point," he told a crowd of some 6,000 who packed the Palais des Congrés, a downtown convention centre.
At such critical moments in history, he said, there is a temptation "go backwards instead of forwards." The appeal of isolationism and populism, he said, is understandable as people look for certainty in uncertain times.
"But in this time we cannot stand still," Obama said. "We have to act with greater urgency and greater conviction."
'Democracy is hard'
The speech carried forward a theme that recurred often in the final months of his presidency, the importance of civic engagement at both the local and international level.....
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Why didn’t anyone in Montreal ask Obama about the liberal values involved in his assassination of Mahomar Qaddafi , the destruction of the vibrant port of Tripoli, and the destruction of the 8th wonder of the world, The Great Man-made River, greening the Southern desert of Libya. Obama ruined a perfectly good country governed by a US ally, based on political correctness?
And that’s where his liberal values led.
Obama can stuff his liberal values far up his black a$$!
No one wants them except the ill informed.
A crowd of 6,000?
Couldn’t they get Beyoncé & Bon Jovi to put on a concert and pump up the multitudes?
Oh pound it, you POS.
Did he make the speech in French? If not, he is being very rude.
Progress since the end of the Second World War? What is this progress of which he speaks? Surely he jests.
illiberal = non-fascist
Did he blow Canada’s PM ? ...
That was exactly my reaction... I have heard this jive turkey talk without a teleprompter... and he is better suited for a hip-hop video than speaking coherently.
Well he’s out of the closet.
He is demanding a Global Communist government.
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Exactly! I agree.
The appeal of isolationism and populism, he said, is understandable as people look for certainty in uncertain times.
Unmasking 20 million Americans in preparation for your prison camps was not a wise move. Your weaponization of the IC is now known. More coming out every day. Soon it will be a flood as people start wanting immunity. Every word you say is monitored. Every movement is videotaped. Every phone call.
We are going to get very tired of this tedious poseur running his mouth.
Barry still doesn’t know the US isn’t a democracy
0bummer and Michael? Hasn’t the world had enough of these two interlopers?
0bummer and Michael? Hasn’t the world had enough of these two interlopers?
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