On foreign soil, Obama warns America against 'aggressive nationalism'

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    President Barack Obama is in Indonesia this week, revisiting the home of his childhood. But he interrupted his trip down memory lane to make a speech that reminded us why so many of us considered the former president a total jerk.

    The Guardian:

    The former US president said some countries had adopted “an aggressive kind of nationalism” and “increased resentment of minority groups”, in a speech in Indonesia on Saturday that could be seen as a commentary on the US as well as Indonesia.

    “It’s been clear for a while that the world is at a crossroads. At an inflection point,” Obama said, telling a Jakarta crowd stories of how much the capital had improved since he lived there as a child.

    But he said that increased prosperity had been accompanied by new global problems, adding that as the world confronts issues ranging from inequality to terrorism, some countries – both developed and less developed – had adopted a more aggressive and isolationist stance.

    “If we don’t stand up for tolerance and moderation and respect for others, if we begin to doubt ourselves and all that we have accomplished, then much of the progress that we have made will not continue,” he said.

    “What we will see is more and more people arguing against democracy, we will see more and more people who are looking to restrict freedom of the press, and we’ll see more intolerance, more tribal divisions, more ethnic divisions, and religious divisions and more violence.”

    Cats and dogs. Living together. Mass hysteria!

    “My stepfather … was raised a Muslim but he respected Hindus and he respected Buddhists and he respected Christians,” he said, adding: “If you are strong in your own faith then you should not be worried about someone else’s faith.” The line earned raucous applause.

    Obama never mentioned Donald Trump by name, but he chose a range of topics that could be seen to apply to politics in both Indonesia and the US, including fake news powered by social media, resentment, attacks on institutions, and ignorance of other peoples.

    Obama's criticism of "nationalists" sounds a heckuva lot like the liberal agenda, doesn't it? But then, this is a man who has always been completely oblivious to his own contradictions.



    Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog...nst_aggressive_nationalism.html#ixzz4ln23iN2T
    Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook This is really sad. A former American president should never be critical of America when abroad. Obama clearly is not a patriotic American.
     

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