Ok, so the wingnuts seem to think they've found another piece of audio of President Obama - this time from 1995 - saying something shocking, just shocking about, ur, um, something collective or the other, or some such.. shocking thing.
Via The Blaze.
“Technological change is gonna happen, scientific discoveries are gonna happen; I think with the collapse of communism I think we recognize that markets are gonna happen,” a young Obama says in the video.
“But having said all that, I insist — and in this I think I am inheriting what was probably the best part of the dream from both my father, my African father, my white American mother. I think the best legacy of theirs, my inheritance, is the notion that we collectively can decide on our fate…things like technological change, things like mass media, things like the market, are all subject to our control, that we can make decisions for better or worse and continue to move forward and progress.”
Emphasis in original.
I have a fresh new twitter stalker who literally dared me to post this. Obviously he doesn't know me very well. I once made Andrew BreitbartM cry and run away on twitter. But I'm not posting it for that reason, I'm posting to wonder - What the frell are they thinking to find this so offensive and shocking?
Notice what he's really saying if you put the emphasis where it belongs.
“Technological change is gonna happen, scientific discoveries are gonna happen; I think with the collapse of communism I think we recognize that markets are gonna happen,” a young Obama says in the video.
“But having said all that, I insist — and in this I think I am inheriting what was probably the best part of the dream from both my father, my African father, my white American mother. I think the best legacy of theirs, my inheritance, is the notion that we collectively can decide on our fate…things like technological change, things like mass media, things like the market, are all subject to our control, that we can make decisions for better or worse and continue to move forward and progress.”
What's he's talking about here is the Market, how people can collectively
impact and make choices within that market, and also how they government can impact that market and the media.
And it goes further.
After being asked to clarify how government can make decisions as a “collective,“ Obama explained that it would have to be a democracy with a ”small ‘d’.”
Obama continued: “I would challenge a reading of American history that would say the entire history of America is towards concentration of power and oppression. I think that American history moves in waves and cycles. I think that recapturing the spirit that existed not just in the civil rights movement but in the union organizing movement, in the populist movement, I think there is a running thread, one of the better angels of our nature in this country which has been the notion that you know we can sit around the table and find common ground and make democracy work in the way that it should be worked.”
“Its not popular right now to say that and to believe in a kind of a common good but I think that notions of common good are the glue that hold our society together,” he concluded.
I myself, don't have the slightest bit of problem with what he's saying here. I don't think it's controversial in the slightest. It's a big ball of fuzzy
patriotism about what America and Americans can do if and when they work together for the good of all. The Common Good.
This really isn't one iota different from what he said at the DNC about the Audacity of Hope and that "We don't have Blue States and Red States - We Have the United States".
Apparently thinking and acting not for your own self-interest, but for the interest of the people around you, for your family, for your neighbors, for your community, for your Country - being a Patriot, being a good Citizen - is a bad thing to Republicans now?
Wow. Just, like, wow.
Vyan