In a rare moment of being candid and speaking about his Alinsky view of things with government and everything controlled by government to be on the top of the food chain, 0bama spoke his true thoughts.
0bama and the American public need to be reminded of this speech every day until the election, especially if it irritates him and his mind-numbed followers. I prefer success as defined by every other President until 0bama to 0bama’s world view.
What’s he going to do, hold his breath?
Obama loves to take criticism, and re-define it by mischaracterizing it.
Nobody said he was attacking success. What he is attacking is people who think something they did caused them to succeed.
His point, fully made, was that it is ignorant to think you succeeded because you were smart, or hard-working. This plays to his base, who are neither smart nor hard-working, but don’t like people saying they are at fault for their own lack of success.
Obama says that whatever success you have, it’s not because of what you did, but because of what government did for you.
Oddly, it seems that should make all the unsuccessful people really mad at Obama, since he runs the government, and apparently the government failed them.
But isn’t this the message of the ghetto? That you shouldn’t bother trying because the deck is stacked against you, that no matter how hard you work, or how smart you are, you can’t succeed?
And it defines Obama’s approach to government, using government to provide “success” for everybody, since they can’t succeed on their own.
No, Obama wasn’t attacking success, he was personally attacking successful people who didn’t thank government for what they had. IN the end, his comment was a negative attack on people who think they had something to do with their own success. If you say “I was smart”, Obama is attackign you. If you say “I worked hard”, Obama is attacking you.
BTW, Obama’s philosophy reflects his life experiences.
Obama clearly isn’t smart. And he obviously doesn’t have any idea what hard work is. But he “succeeded”, he’s the President.
In his case, he got where he is because government had policies and programs that favored his skin color.
Oh, gee whiz. That's too bad.
FUBO
The realization is beginning to hit the Chicago thug pol that the nation’s first “black” president is getting dissed in his election for a 2nd term.
Rejection is so hard to take for the Narcissist in Chief…
He finds questions about intelligence leaks “offensive.” Now, he finds he’s “impatient” when people ask him about a now-infamous speech. It’s all personal.
What a petulant child...everything’s all about HIM!
Yeah 0 bummer, it's hard to "unring" a bell. Too bad your 57 states comment wasn't run as part of the 2008 campaign.
Boo Hoo Hoo. He tells the truth about his marxist beliefs and doesn’t like others calling him on it.
Waaaaaaaaaaaah!
What a thin-skinned crybaby.
Obama never built anything in private industry. He is a loser racist community organizer from Chicago who is remaking the America in his own loser image.