This lie was easy to prove. Following are 3 citations:
9/8/12, "In Florida, Obama says US not a nation in decline," AP
The lie: "President Barack Obama says Republicans are "dead wrong" in calling America a country in decline."...
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Example 1 of 3:
Samantha Power is currently Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior National Security Council official. In 2008, The Nation quotes Samantha Power explaining that Obama understands that the global order has shifted, that US influence has been lost to other countries:
2/28/2008, "Samantha Power: Obama and Me," The Nation, Jon Wiener
Ms. Power describes Obama's view of the US:
""He's very aware of the tectonic plate shifts in the global order - the rise of China, the resurgence of Russia,
the loss of influence by the US --
and how those affect your ability to get what you want, on anything from global warming to getting out of Iraq to stopping genocide.""
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Example 2 of 3:
In a second example, Obama tells an Oregon audience in 2008 that the US must learn to subordinate itself to other countries. He scolds Americans for being selfish and greedy, says other nations won't put up with it:
5/17/2008, CNN video, Obama discusses the environment. He tells his audience the US can no longer drive the kinds of cars it wants, eat the food it's been eating, heat homes as it's been doing, other countries won't allow it:
Obama: "We can't drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we're living in the desert or we're living in the tundra, and then just expect every other country is going to say OK, you know, you guys go ahead keep on using 25 percent of the world's energy, even though you only account for 3 percent of the population, and we'll be fine. Don't worry about us. That's not leadership."
Obama in Oregon, 5/17/2008, CNN video. Via Tom Nelson
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Example 3 of 3
The US has dropped in global competitiveness for 4 yrs. in a row:
9/5/12, "US Slips Down the Ranks of Global Competitiveness," CNBC
"The United States has slipped further down a global ranking of the world's most competitive economies, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey released on Wednesday. The world's largest economy, which was placed 5th last year, fell two positions to the 7th spot - marking its fourth year of decline. A lack of macroeconomic stability, the business community’s continued mistrust of the government and concerns over its fiscal health were some of the reasons for the downgrade, according to the annual survey."
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More on Obama's views of the US via Samantha Power from The Nation, 2008:
From the article, Ms. Power describes listening to Obama's 2004 DNC convention speech. The country she heard Obama describe was so horrible she was moved to tears on the plane en route to meet Obama for the first time. During their meeting, she became so impressed with him she was ready to quit her current job and help him in any way she could. Today Samantha Power is Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior National Security Council official:
2/28/2008, "Samantha Power: Obama and Me," The Nation, Jon Wiener
Samantha Power first met Obama in 2005. She hadn't heard his 2004 Democrat Convention speech, and people said he was a great speaker. ""So I went onto iTunes and downloaded his speech and got on the shuttle down to Washington and listened to the speech on the plane.
And I had a cry. I couldn't believe the speech,
couldn't believe the country he was telling me I lived in.""
Ms. Power's impressions after the 2005 meeting:
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Further about Samantha Power for those interested:
Now a top aide to Obama, in 2002 Power said the US should provide massive military force to create and protect a new Palestinian state:
2002, Samantha Power interview (video), Conversations with History, Berkeley, globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations. Transcript of relevant segment below. Her view is that a new state of Palestine must be formed, that the US should give it billions of taxpayer dollars for massive military aid. She says again the US should intervene to create a Palestinian state: "And, unfortunately, it does require external intervention."
Power is asked what she might advise a president to do about the Israel-Palestine situation. At :52 she said necessary action "might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import..." As she mentions this fearsome "constituency," Power softly chuckles knowingly as if this is something everyone knows about. Continuing, she said it may mean investing billions not in servicing Israel's military but in the new state of Palestine, and billions to support "meaningful military presence," at 1:22, "a mammoth protection force."
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Ed. note: What could be the "domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import"?... The taxpayers of what country are to be enslaved in service of this "investment"?
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Transcript of clip of Power's 2002 interview from You Tube:
INTERVIEWER: "Let me give you a thought experiment here, and it is the following: without addressing the Palestine -- Israel problem, let's say you were an advisor to the President of the United States, how would you respond to current events there? Would you advise him to put a structure in place to monitor that situation, at least if one party or another [starts] looking like they might be moving toward genocide?"
POWER: "What we don't need is some kind of early warning mechanism there, what we need is a willingness to put something on the line in helping the situation. Putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import; it may more crucially mean sacrificing — or investing, I think, more than sacrificing — billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine, in investing the billions of dollars it would probably take, also, to support what will have to be a mammoth protection force, not of the old Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence. Because it seems to me at this stage (and this is true of actual genocides as well, and not just major human rights abuses, which were seen there), you have to go in as if you're serious, you have to put something on the line.
Unfortunately, imposition of a solution on unwilling parties is dreadful. It's a terrible thing to do, it's fundamentally undemocratic. But, sadly, we don't just have a democracy here either, we have a liberal democracy. There are certain sets of principles that guide our policy, or that are meant to, anyway. It's essential that some set of principles becomes the benchmark, rather than a deference to [leaders] who are fundamentally politically destined to destroy the lives of their own people. And by that I mean what Tom Freidman has called "Sharafat." I do think in that sense, both political leaders have been dreadfully irresponsible. And, unfortunately, it does require external intervention....Intervention is going to come under fierce criticism."...
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Harry Kreisler is executive producer and host of the series, which is produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California - Berkeley.
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