Posted on 11/20/2015 10:14:44 AM PST by jazusamo
President Obama discussed America's faults Friday with young Asian leaders, saying the U.S. suffers from "pitfalls" such as income inequality, a political system controlled by the wealthy and political parties divided along racial lines.
Speaking at a town-hall event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mr. Obama said the biggest problem in the U.S. is the influence of the wealthy on the government.
"It is very important to avoid any political system where money overwhelms ideas," said Mr. Obama, who raised a record $1.1 billion for his reelection campaign in 2012. "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."
He added, "When politicians have to raise so much money all the time, then they start listening a little bit more to the people who have money, as opposed to ordinary people."
In response to a question from the audience, Mr. Obama also said politics in the U.S. "increasingly is defined by personal attacks and saying very sensational things in the media." He urged young Asian leaders to try "to debate people you disagree with, without saying that they're a terrible person."
The president himself is engaged in a nasty, long-distance debate with Republicans over his plan to accept Syrian refugees in the U.S. He accused GOP opponents this week of being "scared of widows and orphans."
At the town-hall event, Mr. Obama also warned young Asians to guard against racial divisions in politics, saying in the U.S., "it's still an issue that comes up."
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“Mr. Obama also said politics in the U.S. “increasingly is defined by personal attacks and saying very sensational things in the media.â€
This from the token who mocked Republican candidates for their tussle with debate moderators. He has never faced honest open questions, and never will; he has openly stopped speaking when the teleprompter has technical issues, and is beholden to whoever works that device.
What a hollow token; an embarrassment to Americans everywhere.
After the event the young Asians were heard to say: “This was town hall? It more like comedy club; 0bama guy, he so funny.”
Backhanded admission that he's a bought man?
After the event the young Asians were heard to say: “This was town hall? It more like comedy club; 0bama guy, he so funny.”
.... “It is very important to avoid any political system where money overwhelms ideas,” said Mr. Obama ....
... Like the billionaire Steyer who gave $150 million to democrats to push the Marxist global warming fraud.
“... the influence of the wealthy on the government.”
Did Barky take a poverty vow?
Lol, I can't seem to find that entry in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Hollow token is right.
He’s a very small man, and getting smaller every day.
I miss the old days of FR’s collective BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!! (When a Twinkie BWA-HA’s you, you KNOW for sure
you’re a JOKE!!)
“I would pay extra taxes to send this guy on a golf course for the next 400 days straight, if he promised never to utter another word.”, and just to be sure we would burn his tongue out with a red hot poker!
Bump
"Apparently, they're scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America as part of our tradition of compassion. First, they were worried about the press being too tough on them during debates. Now they're worried about three-year-old orphans. That doesn't sound very tough to me."
Double-talking, double-dealing, filthy, disgusting hypocritical scumbag.
I despise BO. Lord help me, I do. To have the gall to run-down America in a foreign country like this just shows what a dispicable man he is.
Our media overlords will go on pretending he was successful (and relevant) and continue ignoring the horrific violence visited on blacks by other blacks in Chicago, Nigeria, etc.
I’m sure until his last breath he will blame all of his unacknowledged failures on white people...
The pitfall he means is the failure to submit to Islam. In case that isn’t obvious.
My thoughts also.
Just a bitter, unassimilated malcontent, like the black “students” protesting on campuses. Every day they wake up to a world where other ethnic groups speak to each other using words they themselves can’t even understand, and they resent being bit players in someone else’s world.
Open borders, illegal immigration, admission of “refugees” and enemies, racial and religious “diversity” racial pandering, Marxism socialism, communism
What a PUTZ!
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