Watch how the mainstream US media reports it and headlines it, without critical explanation and without critical reasoning (scroll way way below, my comment which follows right here)
I say:
Obama claims Republicans are wanting to turn the US into "a Third World" Country! in a re-election fundraiser at his political base in Chicago. Most working people (that's the majority of ALL voters) in Wisconsin and Ohio and everywhere else, are already keenly aware that their elected Republican leaders are proving to be not worthy of their vote and recalls are being vigorously pursued.
Do you see how DISRESPECTFUL the US Govt and the American People are, to buy into this demeaning language and this politically expedient, self-serving line of reasoning? Has the "Third World" done anything to engineer the sorry mess the US economy is in?
The Third World is a concept that only partially describes the post-colonial, sovereign, non-aligned nations, designating PEOPLES whose ancestral lands were occupied and who were colonized, until those very Peoples drove the exploitative colonizers out! That is the Third World, President Obama. Your Kenyan father and Indonesian half-sister were born there remember? You lived briefly in the Third World, remember? Your CIA operatives and Armed Forces are occupying, droning and killing in The Third World, remember?
Why diss us in the Third World to make your point against some, not all,ethically challenged Republicans, to grab a cheap headline in your re-election campaign? Leave us out. Please.
The US media is part and parcel of the US Govt. The US media is post-embedded since 2003 following the US invasion of Iraq. The US media will accept such characterizations from the Government, without examination and will repeat, not report such quotes, from the US President, no less. There will be NO copy in any US media along these lines:
"The Third World, referred to by the US President roughly connotes all countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America that were occupied, plundered and enslaved, until these peoples drove out the white colonizers and set themselves free between the 1940s and 1960s."
Malcolm X and MLK would likely be cringing in their graves at Obama's statement.
Malcolm celebrated the Third World and the Bandung Conference 1955 in his speeches. Malcolm X was a Free Speech internationalist, whereas in the US he is regarded even by Blacks as a Black leader and by whites as a violent Black leader. Martin Luther King before his murder, began to refer to the race struggle as a struggle for justice within the larger struggle for freedom worldwide. Where does Obama stand in the line of succession?
Obama is almost as ahistorical as Condolezza Rice when she came to New Delhi and lectured India's elected parliamentary leaders on the supposed limitations of the Non-Aligned Movement(NAM).
Obama's audience at the Navy Pier fundraiser included large numbers of Black folk, who are part of the Third World of the US, yes or no? The minorities who have been marginalized and who have a history of enslavement dispossession dislocation. Yeah, since Obama's election we all became post-racial. Yeah right
The US Government's superpower ignorance, US exceptionalism, US supremacism are at an all time high:( just, just when the US economy is in the toilet, the US economy is in fact, in grave decline. You cant have it both ways. The Global South is eating your jobs, because the market economy must ensure profits, so chase cheap labor from Nigeria to Nam. I agree with the inevitable principle of free markets == but they have to be tweaked, sometimes aggressively, to deliver The Greater Collective Good (GCG)
Global South sovereign nation-states, please do not roll out the Red carpet for Obama anytime soon. Yes, Barack, Schumer, Boxer, Murray are preferable to Boehner, Ryan, Walker, Kasich but The Third World has not tanked the US economy.
Send a letter of protest against such intentionally pejorative descriptions of the Global South, to Obama at www.whitehouse.gov
South~South.
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by Mira Oberman – Fri Apr 15, 12:57 am ET
CHICAGO (AFP) – US President Barack Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
The attack came a day after Obama savaged Republican budget plans and unveiled his $4-trillion deficit reduction drive that aims to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in order to preserve key social services.
The debate over fiscal policy will prove critical to the 2012 campaign and Obama sought to frame it as a "stark choice" between investing in the future or watching the country fall apart.
"Under their vision, we can't invest in roads and bridges and broadband and high-speed rail," Obama told a select group of the Democratic faithful at the second of three fundraising events in his hometown of Chicago.
"I mean, we would be a nation of potholes, and our airports would be worse than places that we thought -- that we used to call the Third World, but who are now investing in infrastructure."
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Republicans plans to shrink the reach of government is "not a vision that's impelled by the numbers" but a "choice" to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the rich rather than ask those who've been "blessed" to "give a little more."
Obama said his vision is of an ambitious, compassionate, and caring America "where we're living within our means but we're still investing in our future."
"If we apply some practical common sense to this, we can solve our fiscal challenges and still have the America that we believe in," Obama told supporters at Chicago's N9ne restaurant.
"That's what this budget debate is going to be about. And that's what the 2012 campaign is going to be about."
The events in Chicago were Obama's first fundraisers since he officially launched his bid for a second term on April 4 and were expected to raise about two million dollars.
Analysts predict Obama -- who raised a record $750 million ahead of the 2008 election -- will build a billion-dollar war chest this time around.
Money won't be enough to win, senior advisor and 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe told a crowd of 2,300 supporters gathered in a ballroom at Navy Pier ahead of Obama's speech.
"If only the people who normally vote in presidential elections vote in this election it will be too close," Plouffe said as he urged supporters to get more people involved in the campaign.
"You've got to get these people to get involved and to vote so we can make sure that we succeed in this election."
Obama established his 2012 campaign headquarters in Chicago, the first time a presidential reelection campaign was not based in Washington.
He told supporters it was so the campaign would be "rooted in your hopes and rooted in your dreams" instead of influenced by Washington pundits and powerbrokers.
Obama reminded the cheering crowd of the sense of hope and possibility they felt when they celebrated his election as the first African American US president in Chicago's Grant Park.
"And yet, even as we celebrated -- you remember what I said back then? I said our work wasn't ending, our work was just beginning," Obama said.
"We've still got business to do. We are not finished.
"We've got to reclaim the American dream for all Americans. That's the change we still believe in."
Barring a dramatic turn, no major adversary from within his party is likely to challenge Obama, who turns 50 in August.
As for who might run against him from the Republican Party's ranks, uncertainty reigns.
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney have taken the first official steps toward candidacy, while conservative former House speaker Newt Gingrich and even real estate mogul Donald Trump have hinted at challenging for the Republican nomination.
In less than a month, the 64-year-old Trump has jumped from 10 to 19 percent support among Republican voters, tying with former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, according to a CNN poll released this week.
Republican officials worry that the crowded field of possible White House hopefuls could end up helping Obama, who could be vulnerable as the US economy sputters its way out of its worst downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Republicans will make US 'Third World' nation: Obama
President Barack Obama reads a note given to him by a young girl upon arrival at O?Hare International Airport. Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
President Barack Obama reads a note given to him by a young girl upon arrival at O?Hare International Airport. Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
President Barack Obama speaks to supporters during a fundraiser at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
President Barack Obama speaks to supporters during a fundraiser at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
Supporters listen as President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraiser in Chicago. Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
Supporters listen as President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraiser in Chicago. Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
AFP - US President Barack Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
The attack came a day after Obama savaged Republican budget plans and unveiled his $4-trillion deficit reduction drive that aims to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in order to preserve key social services.
The debate over fiscal policy will prove critical to the 2012 campaign and Obama sought to frame it as a "stark choice" between investing in the future or watching the country fall apart.
"Under their vision, we can't invest in roads and bridges and broadband and high-speed rail," Obama told a select group of the Democratic faithful at the second of three fundraising events in his hometown of Chicago.
"I mean, we would be a nation of potholes, and our airports would be worse than places that we thought -- that we used to call the Third World, but who are now investing in infrastructure."
Republicans plans to shrink the reach of government is "not a vision that's impelled by the numbers" but a "choice" to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the rich rather than ask those who've been "blessed" to "give a little more."
Obama said his vision is of an ambitious, compassionate, and caring America "where we're living within our means but we're still investing in our future."
"If we apply some practical common sense to this, we can solve our fiscal challenges and still have the America that we believe in," Obama told supporters at Chicago's N9ne restaurant.
"That's what this budget debate is going to be about. And that's what the 2012 campaign is going to be about."
The events in Chicago were Obama's first fundraisers since he officially launched his bid for a second term on April 4 and were expected to raise about two million dollars.
Analysts predict Obama -- who raised a record $750 million ahead of the 2008 election -- will build a billion-dollar war chest this time around.
Money won't be enough to win, senior advisor and 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe told a crowd of 2,300 supporters gathered in a ballroom at Navy Pier ahead of Obama's speech.
"If only the people who normally vote in presidential elections vote in this election it will be too close," Plouffe said as he urged supporters to get more people involved in the campaign.
"You've got to get these people to get involved and to vote so we can make sure that we succeed in this election."
Obama established his 2012 campaign headquarters in Chicago, the first time a presidential reelection campaign was not based in Washington.
He told supporters it was so the campaign would be "rooted in your hopes and rooted in your dreams" instead of influenced by Washington pundits and powerbrokers.
Obama reminded the cheering crowd of the sense of hope and possibility they felt when they celebrated his election as the first African American US president in Chicago's Grant Park.
"And yet, even as we celebrated -- you remember what I said back then? I said our work wasn't ending, our work was just beginning," Obama said.
"We've still got business to do. We are not finished.
"We've got to reclaim the American dream for all Americans. That's the change we still believe in."
Barring a dramatic turn, no major adversary from within his party is likely to challenge Obama, who turns 50 in August.
As for who might run against him from the Republican Party's ranks, uncertainty reigns.
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney have taken the first official steps toward candidacy, while conservative former House speaker Newt Gingrich and even real estate mogul Donald Trump have hinted at challenging for the Republican nomination.
In less than a month, the 64-year-old Trump has jumped from 10 to 19 percent support among Republican voters, tying with former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, according to a CNN poll released this week.
Republican officials worry that the crowded field of possible White House hopefuls could end up helping Obama, who could be vulnerable as the US economy sputters its way out of its worst downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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EDITORIAL: Obama’s Third World America
Big Government deficit spending undermines U.S. competitiveness
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By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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6:02 p.m., Friday, April 15, 2011
MugshotPresident Barack Obama is interviewed by The Associated Press, Friday, April 15, 2011, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama warns Republican policies will turn America into a Third World country. Look who’s talking.
On a campaign fundraising trip to Chicago, Mr. Obama quipped that under the proposed Republican budget plan, “we would be a nation of potholes, and our airports would be worse than places that we thought - that we used to call the Third World, but who are now investing in infrastructure.” He failed to elaborate on which developing countries he thinks should be models for the United States, but his policies have secured America’s status as part of the declining world.
Mr. Obama has approached the presidency less as a traditional American chief executive and more as a developing world populist. The 2009 stimulus program was taken directly from this playbook, using deficit spending to distribute favors to his union supporters and cronies in the form of public-works projects and other handouts. It was a spectacular failure at creating the promised number of jobs but succeeded in Mr. Obama’s core mission to “spread the wealth around.”
Mr. Obama has accepted what he sees as the inevitability of American economic decline. During the 2008 presidential campaign, he declared, “we can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.” He has yet to explain why he thinks the American people need to ask permission from other countries to maintain a high standard of living.
During the president’s trip to India in November 2010, he said that for most of his lifetime, “the U.S. was such an enormously dominant economic power … that we always met the rest of the world economically on our terms.” In his view, however, Mr. Obama is overseeing the end times for U.S. economic dominance. Rising economies in China, India, Russia, Brazil and elsewhere will, he says, “keep America on its toes.” Meanwhile, these same countries just finished a conference in China exploring new ways to put America flat on its back.
Mr. Obama is making our enemies’ job easier. He has increased economic regulation, pursued energy policies that stifle exploration and production at home while promoting it abroad, and has shown a general contempt for free-market principles that made the U.S. economy great. Plus, given Mr. Obama’s astonishingly lax immigration policies, America won’t have to wait long to become a Third World country because the Third World is coming here.
The debt accrued on Mr. Obama’s watch is the centerpiece of the forces that are driving the United States to global pauperhood. In 2008, gross public debt was 69 percent of the gross domestic product. This year it will pass 100 percent. Mr. Obama’s debt has stifled economic productivity and has driven the country to the point where only 66 percent of men had jobs last year, the lowest figure on record.
Were it not for Mr. Obama’s drunken-sailor-style spending, facilitated by Democratic supermajorities in both houses of Congress during his first two years, the United States wouldn’t be in this fix. Still, the president’s answer to economic crisis is to heap on more debt. It’s this crippling tax-and-spend Obama creed that’s bringing America to the brink of Third World inferiority.
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