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Obama at UN warns Americans against walls and nationalism
CNN Politics ^ | September 20, 2016 | Kevin Liptak

Posted on 09/20/2016 7:51:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

President Barack Obama took to the most prominent international stage Tuesday to deliver a stark warning to American voters of the dire global consequences they face should they embrace isolationism and ultra-nationalism in November.

Never mentioning Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by name, the President's final address to the United Nations General Assembly was at heart an impassioned rebuke of the GOP candidate's policies on trade, immigration and multiculturalism -- and a defense of liberalism and tolerance -- delivered 49 days before votes are cast for his replacement.

He painted a dark picture of the future awaiting Americans, and the world, if the forces of "aggressive nationalism" or "crude populism" win out. And he specifically inveighed against building a wall -- a centerpiece of Trump's proposal on border security.

"A nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself," Obama declared to the assembled representatives of the UN's member states....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: borders; nationalism; obama; obamaunspeech; populism; trump
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1 posted on 09/20/2016 7:51:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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"A nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself," Obama declared to the assembled representatives of the UN's member states....

Says the man living behind a fence with armed guards.

2 posted on 09/20/2016 7:54:01 PM PDT by ealgeone
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Oh, and Mr. Butthole, what about all the countries in Southern Europe building walls to keep people who look like you out. What do you have to say on this point?


3 posted on 09/20/2016 8:03:02 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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GET

OUT


4 posted on 09/20/2016 8:05:26 PM PDT by Mjreagan
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Obama hates America - good to know he’s delivering his diatribe against our country 49 days before the election.

With this worthless SOB as our President - politics doesn’t stop at the water’s edge. I hope the American people tell him what he can do with his legacy.

Every time he goes lower - he doesn’t disappoint.


5 posted on 09/20/2016 8:05:50 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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Obama warns against patriotism and self-defense, you mean.


6 posted on 09/20/2016 8:07:23 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (They aren't being radicalized; they're being activated.)
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sounds like the UN will give Obama a job bought by taxer dollars


7 posted on 09/20/2016 8:09:17 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Again the two faced lying bastard says one thing an does the opposite.

Obama Gives Mexico $75 Million to Build a Southern Border Wall!

If border walls are so ineffective, why is Obama giving Mexico $75 million dollars to help build one? Not only republicans are outraged, but liberals are too. Liberals are up in arms because they see it as an admission that borders walls work and will make it harder for them and their RINO allies like Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy from keeping the border wide open.

http://dailyheadlines.net/2016/09/obama-gives-mexico-75-million-to-build-a-southern-border-wall/


8 posted on 09/20/2016 8:10:00 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Illiarily is the mentally ill/staggering/falling/terminal left wing candidate for president!!!)
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Well Spanky if walls are so bad why did you just send a check to Mexico to build a wall on THEIR southern border?


9 posted on 09/20/2016 8:11:01 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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Wait, Zero was at the UN?? Did the UN (aka UnAmerican Nations) moved to a golf course??


10 posted on 09/20/2016 8:11:44 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The RELIGION of PEDOPHILIA...)
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KMA Obama.


11 posted on 09/20/2016 8:12:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I may be deplorable but I've never had to plead the Fifth Amendment like so many Democrats are doing)
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That man is a perfect reverse barometer.


12 posted on 09/20/2016 8:13:04 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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Idiots are charging in Charlotte near Old Concord Rd.


13 posted on 09/20/2016 8:14:40 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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With this worthless SOB as our President -...

Unless you have a mouse in your pocket, he is not our President. He may be yours, but he is not mine. That being said, if it was not for the traitors, parasites sons of bitches, bastards, and hates of America that voted for him twice, he would still be a turd in Chicago. I deliberately omitted mentioning the Democrat Party because it is implied that they are included each time one of the above is named.

14 posted on 09/20/2016 8:15:39 PM PDT by sport
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Mainstream media desperate to hide Muslim faith of attackers

Foxnews.com


15 posted on 09/20/2016 8:15:52 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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January 20th can not come soon enough.


16 posted on 09/20/2016 8:16:33 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (You can't spell TRIUMPH without TRUMP)
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Don’t lecture us d-weed.

If we want your opinion, we’ll ask for it.


17 posted on 09/20/2016 8:17:12 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Forty-nine days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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I don’t want to be part of the Globalist Utopia


18 posted on 09/20/2016 8:17:15 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (when the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you)
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God help me- how I despise that sob. I ‘d pay good money to slap his ugly smug face.


19 posted on 09/20/2016 8:20:50 PM PDT by patriot08 (Post 5th generation Texan-(girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? VOTING 3RD PARTY? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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Well Spanky if walls are so bad why did you just send a check to Mexico to build a wall on THEIR southern border?

Well, that's DIFFERENT.

Because taqiyya.

20 posted on 09/20/2016 8:30:49 PM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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