President Obama [UN Address]: Let's Solve Problems Together

[I'mNotDedalus]

President Barack Obama issued a stark challenge to fellow world leaders Wednesday, saying that the rest of the world has to stop waiting for America to lead and begin shouldering the burden of solving global problems together.

"Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone," Obama said in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27482.html

Transcript of the address.

Similar to Obama's speech yesterday about climate change; I suspect the reaction will be mixed, with serious activists expressing some amount of disappointment.

[MidgardDragon]

LOOK HE'S RECUITING TEH COMMIES I TOLD YA SOOOOOO!

/lunaticteabaggerandfauxnewsreaction

[AnglRdr]

Originally Posted by I'mNotDedalus

Similar to Obama's speech yesterday about climate change; I suspect the reaction will be mixed, with serious activists expressing some amount of disappointment.

Meh...he's gone a lot further than others, so I'm happy to give him a bit of a pass on this, for now.

However, to his critics (aka Politico commentors), the man could save a burning building full of puppies, kittens, and white Christian babies, and people would gripe that he didn't manage to grab the photo album.

[BringTheNoise]

Originally Posted by MidgardDragon

LOOK HE'S RECUITING TEH COMMIES I TOLD YA SOOOOOO!

/lunaticteabaggerandfauxnewsreaction

Also - acting collabaratively is weakness and probably treason.

[snopes]

Originally Posted by BringTheNoise

Also - acting collabaratively is weakness and probably treason.

And it smacks of socialism.

[I'mNotDedalus]

Originally Posted by AnglRdr

Meh...he's gone a lot further than others, so I'm happy to give him a bit of a pass on this, for now.

I suppose, but I can understand this kind of frustration:

Many diplomats and environmentalists were hoping that Obama would detail his strategy to move House-approved carbon-emissions-trading legislation through the Senate and onto his desk to be signed into law ahead of a key climate change conference this December in Copenhagen. But the president made only a vague pledge to continue pushing for the measure.

That's largely why I think his address, today, was similar to yesterday's speech. It's a bit vague. His "four pillars" don't go into many specifics in just how he wants to improve/implement a halt on the spread of nuclear weapons, the pursuit of peace (which includes Darfur to the Occupied Territories), climate change, and (in case the rhetoric hadn't reached the stratosphere just yet) global economic development--even with the obligatory lip service paid to frustrations with just "lend[ing] lip service."

Originally Posted by AnglRdr

However, to his critics (aka Politico commentors), the man could save a burning building full of puppies, kittens, and white Christian babies, and people would gripe that he didn't manage to grab the photo album.

Huh, is Politico largely critical of Obama? They don't appear to be particularly far on the left, but I don't read their site that often.

[AnglRdr]

Originally Posted by I'mNotDedalus

Huh, is Politico largely critical of Obama? They don't appear to be particularly far on the left, but I don't read their site that often.

Politico is pretty right-leaning. I don't read it often because it tends to be awful.

[I'mNotDedalus]

Originally Posted by AnglRdr

Politico is pretty right-leaning. I don't read it often because it tends to be awful.

News to me. Ha, it didn't seem that bad. Either they tricked me or I'm slowly developing a complex that associates an invasion of Poland with our 44th president...wait a tic! That's why Obama dismantled the missile shield!

[snopes]

Obama’s popularity at the UN boils down essentially to his willingness to downplay American global power. He is the first American president who has made an art form out of apologizing for the United States, which he has done on numerous occasions on foreign soil, from Strasbourg to Cairo. The Obama mantra appears to be – ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do to atone for your country. This is a message that goes down very well in a world that is still seething with anti-Americanism.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...e-is-weak.html

[BringTheNoise]

His appeasement of Iran, his bullying of Israel, his surrender to Moscow, his call for a nuclear free world, his siding with Marxists in Honduras, his talk of a climate change deal, have all won him plaudits in the large number of UN member states where US foreign policy has traditionally been viewed with contempt.

So which of these are actually bad? (The real events he's vaguely referring to, that is - not the wacky fantasy version where dropping an ineffectual and costly "Son Of Star Wars" program is a "surrender").