🚨 A video has been digitally edited and stripped of context to make it look like Obama once told a crowd in Europe that Americans are 'too small-minded to govern their own affairs' and should 'surrender' to an 'all-powerful sovereign.' Here are the fa...
Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union; representatives of our NATO Alliance; distinguished guests: We meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States,Throughout human history, societies have grappled with fundamental questions of how to organize themselves, the proper relationship between the individual and the state, the best means to resolve inevitable conflicts between states.
But those ideals have also been tested — here in Europe and around the world. Those ideals have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of power. This alternative vision argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.
Often, this alternative vision roots itself in the notion that by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, some are inherently superior to others, and that individual identity must be defined by"us" versus"them," or that national greatness must flow not by what a people stand for, but by what they are against.
Considered in their full context, President Obama's mentions of ordinary men and women being"too small-minded to govern their own affairs," and order and progress being possible only"when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign," are references to what he describes as an old,form of power, not an expression of President Obama's viewpoint about how things are or should be in the world today.
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