The President’s Speech to the United Nations General Assembly
Email"Some of our actions have yielded progress," President Obama will tell the United Nations General Assembly, according to speech excerpts provided by the White House. "Some have laid the groundwork for progress in the future. But make no mistake: this cannot be solely America’s endeavor."
Taking on critics of the US, the president will say, "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. We have sought – in word and deed – a new era of engagement with the world. Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
Says the president, "If we are honest with ourselves, we need to admit that we are not living up to that responsibility. Consider the course that we are on if we fail to confront the status quo. Extremists sowing terror in pockets of the world. Protracted conflicts that grind on and on. Genocide and mass atrocities. More and more nations with nuclear weapons. Melting ice caps and ravaged populations. Persistent poverty and pandemic disease.
"I say this not to sow fear, but to state a fact: the magnitude of our challenges has yet to be met by the measure of our action," he will say.
– jpt
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I guess everybody else in the world is just as bad as we are in Mr. O.’s opinion. He can never find good in anything.
Posted by: Elle | September 23, 2009, 7:35 am 7:35 am
Another speech, finally! I was starting to go through withdrawal.
I must say President Obama is second to none when it comes to making speeches!! (I would rather have none than Obama’s.)
(My father used to say he liked it when Bill Clinton was talking ’cause it meant he wasn’t doing anything. But I personally now think that Pres. Clinton was by far and away the best working president we’ve had in 20 years.)
Posted by: dave | September 23, 2009, 7:42 am 7:42 am
—Canada will boycott Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the United Nations today, saying his outbursts about the Holocaust and Israel are “shameful.”
Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon will be at the world body to attend the opening of the UN General Assembly’s annual debate, but officials signal he and other members of the Canadian delegation will vacate when the Islamic republic’s president approaches the podium.—
Obama will probably stay for Ahmanutjob’s speech, shake his hand afterward, and ask for helpfuls tips about “community organizing.”
Posted by: Appeasement Czar | September 23, 2009, 8:34 am 8:34 am
The UN will be joyful today.
Finally a US president that dislikes America as much as they do.
The more Obama blames America and apologizes the louder the cheers.
Posted by: larry | September 23, 2009, 8:35 am 8:35 am
Nice speech, but we all know the media will only be interested in catching Obama in some fabricated awkward moment with Gaddafi or Ahmadinejad. A snap of the lens and Drudge will have his perfect headline…
Posted by: matt | September 23, 2009, 9:03 am 9:03 am
Obama’s Apology Tour:
The sequel.
Our allies have to be worried.
Our enemies ecstatic–Obama is as weak as Jimmy Carter.
Wonder who will be cheering the loudest today.
Posted by: ollie | September 23, 2009, 9:04 am 9:04 am
Ah, music to the ears.
Finally, A President we can be proud of.
Aware, engaged, articulate and motivated.
thank you, President Obama.
Posted by: gus amaral | September 23, 2009, 9:06 am 9:06 am
It’s great to be informed with the activities of the President and White House. This is our country, and we deserve to be correctly informed. Such a change from the secretive, cryptic goings of the last administration.
President Obama is proceeding in the right direction.
Posted by: gus amaral | September 23, 2009, 9:08 am 9:08 am
Obama throws Aung San Suu Kyi under the bus.
It figures that the one campaign promise Obama’s been diligent about keeping isn’t winning in Afghanistan but improving diplomatic relations with the world’s biggest degenerates.
—Granting a waiver for Burmese junta member Nyan Win to visit Washington is a diplomatic coup for a regime that is continuing, as this is being written, a military offensive against ethnic groups that has already resulted in more than one million internally displaced refugees and tens of thousands more pouring over the border into China, Thailand, India and Bangladesh; more than 3,200 villages burned, and most heinous — the use of rape as an instrument of war against women. The regime is actively engaged in war crimes. This is in addition to the oppression of Burma’s democratic freedom fighters and the everyday killings and murders that are standard regime fare. If a Burmese official of comparable rank has visited Washington in the last 20 years, no one I talked to can remember it.—
What is he doing here and with whom is he meeting?
Look to Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) for the answer to those questions.
Posted by: Appeasement Czar | September 23, 2009, 9:12 am 9:12 am
It’s great to be informed with the activities of the President and White House. This is our country, and we deserve to be correctly informed. Such a change from the secretive, cryptic goings of the last administration.
President Obama is proceeding in the right direction.
Posted by: gus amaral | Sep 23, 2009 9:08:30 AM
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Really Gus?
Posted by: 'Un-Amercian' | September 23, 2009, 11:26 am 11:26 am
in my opinion we should listen to what the president of Iran has to say, it can’t hurt.
Posted by: joe crespin | September 23, 2009, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
At least the Canadian PM sees Iranian leadership clearly, unlike Obama:
—Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s “absolutely repugnant remarks” about the Holocaust are reason enough for Canadian officials to boycott the Iranian president’s address to the UN General Assembly.
“There are times when things are being said in this world that it is important that countries that have a moral compass stand up, make their views known,” Harper said Wednesday in Oakville, Ont.
“And our absence there will speak volumes about how Canada feels about the declarations of President Ahmadinejad.”
“President Ahmadinejad has said things particularly about the state of Israel, the Jewish people, and the Holocaust that are absolutely repugnant,” Harper said.
“It is unfitting that somebody like that would be giving those kinds of remarks before the United Nations General Assembly. Canada does not want to be equivocal at all in terms of our view on that. We find it disgraceful, unacceptable, and we’re going to be absolutely clear on that,” Harper said.
Harper said the government is also bothered by Iran’s crackdown on legitimate dissent, “the fiasco” surrounding this summer’s elections and the continued detention of a Canadian journalist without charges.—
Posted by: Appeasement Czar | September 23, 2009, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm
-in my opinion we should listen to what the president of Iran has to say, it can’t hurt-
Here’s the short version: The Holocaust is a hoax.
Posted by: Smitty | September 23, 2009, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
Obama said that “I’ll brush Bush’s brain in the WH” during the campaign in 2008. Let’s check what kinds of diplomat relationship Obama has improved during eight months comparing Bush’s era even Obama vowed down before king of Saudi Arabia; took apologize tour in European countries here and there; received a gift of evil’s book by Hugo Chavez; sent two times letter to the Iranian President who denied “HOLOCAUST”; tried to close Guantanamo Bay in terms of human right; said that America is not considered a nation of Christian in Turkey and so on?
NOTHING, NONE, NADA…..
Iranian President, Hugo, and Fidel Castro have still blamed USA and American President no matter what Bush or Obama. In addition, Gadhafi had been quite during the era of Bush. His speech, however, shared to blast America in UN, today. N.Korea, Kim has not changed to browbeat S.Korea and rest of the world with his cockamamie threat. Obama has failed negotiation regarding freezing of settlement for West bank. Obama’s strategies of Afganistian has totally failed because
it spawned six times more victims than Bush’s era. MR. PRESIDENT, STOP BRUSHING BUSH’S BRAIN THEN PUT THEM IN YOUR BRAIN, AGAIN. PLEASE…………..
Posted by: Sharon | September 24, 2009, 12:18 am 12:18 am