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It is not lying as long as the source is provided and the quotes are accurate.
Now you're lying as well, as the quotes are anything but accurate.
I read the whole speech and IMO it leaves an even worse impression in complete context.
Reading the whole speech would have availed you the opportunity to appreciate his comments lauding America in readily apparent context.
He is pretty smooth that is for sure. He could have been a great ad man. He used this opportunity to campaign for Hillary too.
And which of the presidents elected over a couple of hundred years has not been at least somewhat glib enough as lawyers and businessmen among others, to impress enough to garner votes?
Akin to another poster, while professing his faux disdain for the Howard U speech, conflating a youtube video of a speech Obama made four years ago with this thread .
I saw excerpts from his speech. It's hard to believe that came out of the mouth of the US President.
Why not speak of how great America is? About great opportunities in America for hard working honest people.
Sadly many will believe his lies...
He's absolutely correct. Successful people are very lucky because they
are born with the mental ability to learn and develop skills;
are born with enough good health that they grow to adulthood;
have at least one good parent or a parent who has at least one good parent (ie, stable, non-addict, not mentally ill, etc);
are born to a mother who is not an alcoholic so that they don't suffer FAS;
are born to a mother who is not a coke addict so that they aren't crack babies with all the attendant health problems; and
have/find role models/mentors that show them how or help them develop into successful people.
If you think you became successful all by yourself, you're both ignorant and arrogant. Nobody picks the conditions of his/her birth, before or afterward. Nobody gets to pick the family or the environment or even their personality. Two kids in the same family with the same parents and the same environment can grow up with entirely different attitudes towards everything. That even happens when they're identical twins and share the same DNA.
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What do you mean by "separating" and "pigeon holes"? He's listing different groups of people, then unifying them in the context of "expand[ing] our moral imaginations to understand and empathize with all people who are struggling".
I don't see how that expresses an "attitude". I think it's called "writing a speech".
Just a personal observation of the administration over the years and here. You're mileage may vary.
I thought Obama delivered a good speech with many excellent points. I guess some racists just can't handle the fact we have a black president giving a crowd of black students some advice. White privilege shows its ugly head again.
Please explain the annoying and undignified "black" accent he turns on and off with different audiences.
Do you not see the pandering? Can't he break out of the ghetto?
As President of the United States, he should realize how inappropriate some of his actions are.
BTW, your so-called "white privilege" is the joke, and it's on you!
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