Obama’s Second Term Could Mark the Return Of The Four Freedoms

[Freeper]

babylonsister (141,820 posts)

Obama’s Second Term Could Mark the Return Of The Four Freedoms


 
http://www.nationalmemo.com/obamas-second-term-could-mark-the-return-of-the-four-freedoms/

Obama’s Second Term Could Mark the Return Of The Four Freedoms
November 22nd, 2012 10:45 am David Woolner

As part of our series “A Rooseveltian Second-Term Agenda,” a call to return to a foreign policy based on FDR’s vision of shared peace and prosperity.


Even though we come from different places, we share common dreams: to choose our leaders; to live together in peace; to get an education and make a good living; to love our families and our communities. That’s why freedom is not an abstract idea; freedom is the very thing that makes human progress possible—not just at the ballot box, but in our daily lives.

One of our greatest presidents in the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, understood this truth. He defined America’s cause as more than the right to cast a ballot. He understood democracy was not just voting. He called upon the world to embrace four fundamental freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. These four freedoms reinforce one another, and you cannot fully realize one without realizing them all.—Barack H. Obama, University of Yangon, November 19, 2012


In his historic visit to Burma, also referred to as Myanmar, President Obama spoke at length about the journey Burma is taking from dictatorship to democracy, a transition he said has the potential to inspire people the world over as “a test of whether a country can transition to a better place.”

President Obama made it clear that his journey to Burma—the first by an American president—was inspired in part by his own desire to encourage the people and government of Burma to press ahead with their democratic reforms so that the “flickers of progress” that the world has seen will not be extinguished. The president’s visit was also notable for his repeated insistence that America was a “Pacific nation,” whose “future was bound to those nations and peoples to our West.” But perhaps the most significant aspect of his speech was his decision to frame his remarks around a concept first articulated by Franklin D. Roosevelt at one of the darkest moments of the Second World War—the need to build a world founded on four fundamental human freedoms.

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His eloquent speech in Burma may indicate that he has decided to pursue a more progressive foreign policy agenda in his second term, one based on the recognition that the best means to keep America safe in the long term is to ensure that the hopes and aspirations of people the world over to enjoy freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear stand not, as Roosevelt said, as some “vision of a distant millennium,” but as “a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251253807

Freedom of speech: in the Constitution, freedom of worship: also in the Constitution, freedom from want: not in the Constitution, and freedom from fear: not in the Constitution.

Here is the problem with the left, the first two freedoms are not protected in any way by the left, in fact they come up with new ways to stifle those freedoms every day. The last 2 are not in the constitution and are not actual freedoms. If you guarantee freedom from want how do you go about fulfilling that? Easy you have to take freedom from another individual in order to fulfill the wants of the other. Same goes for fear, everyone fears something different, so what happens when one person fears spiders and another person fears the extinction of spiders? Who wins and gets their fear alleviated?

FDR really gave this country a raw deal. Now 70 years later all the moonbats want to continue the changes that he started and further destroy this country.

 

[franksolich]

So.....Burma's the new Arab Spring, the old one now proving a disappointment, where democracy is likely to grow and flourish?

Yeah, right.

[Freeper]

So.....Burma's the new Arab Spring, where democracy is likely to grow and flourish?

Yeah, right.

Maybe it will turn out like Egypt. Freedom and democracy is thriving under the new Pharaoh. Maybe if someone could have seen what was happening from the beginning this wouldn't be such a big surprise.

Oh wait we did, and we were called racist nutball conspiracy theorists for our trouble.

Between this and 0bamacare we are 2 for 2. Yet we are still the dumb ones. 

[Skul]

Bill of Rights lists many freedom froms.
DUmpmonkeys love to make up new ones every day.

[JohnnyReb]

Obama's 4 freedoms.

1- Freedom from your money.

2- Freedom from your property.

3- Freedom from all personal responsibility.

4- Freedom from any freedoms.

[miskie]

Obama’s Second Term Could Mark the Return Of The Four Horsemen

Fixed it for you, primitive.

[thundley4]

As part of our series “A Rooseveltian Second-Term Agenda,” a call to return to a foreign policy based on FDR’s vision of shared peace and prosperity.

Not what we want or need.  Shared defense and opportunity is enough.

[zeitgeist]

Fixed it for you, primitive.

Yup.  That was my first thougth on reading the title too.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Yeah, about those four freedoms...you may notice that none of them protect individual property from government confiscation, or involve any right to privacy from government intrusion.  The only common ground they have with our Constitutional freedoms are 'Freedom of worship' and 'Freedom of speech,' but anyone who thinks a Leftist government would interpret those the same way people do in the US now when talking about the Bill of Rights should not be entrusted with the rent money.

[Ogre]

Fixed it for you, primitive.

We might stand a better chance of surviving the four horsemen than the libtard agenda.

Either way it is going to be painful.

[MrsSmith]

Our Constitution enumerates our right to freedom of religion, not some pathetic "freedom" to worship...as long as we keep our "rights" in the tiny box leftists are willing to grant us and out of the public eye,  off public property, out of our voting, out of our government, out of our schools, away from our children...

[Mr Mannn]

This sounds like propaganda. I've not heard of the Four Freedoms. Marking their return indicates they were somehow missing,
to choose our leaders;
to live together in peace;
to get an education and make a good living;
to love our families and our communities.

These "freedoms" were always with us. They're called "prosperity." Prosperity is a by product of a free and healthy capitalist society.

The idea that these were missing and restored with the advent of the great Obama, is pure proaganda, as they are nebulous/vague in meaning. It seems to me any attempt to focus on these "four freedoms" will be a mask for when the Obamas attack the first amendment.

[Undies]

The only freedom the left is concerned about is the Freedom From Individualism.

[I_B_Perky]

The only 4 things we are getting from obumbles 2nd admin is:

1: Higher unemployment
2: More debt
3: More free shit for the moochers
4: More terrorist attacks on our embassies.

Mark my words dummies. Mark them down now. It will come to pass. You wanted it, you voted for it, you won, you
 

[sybilll]

Freedom from Want, eh? 
I swear, this is NOT a rhetorical question.  WHAT is left that they could possibly "want" for?  More of what we are already giving them?  I'm serious folks.  Obama showed us how Julia could skate through life living in the Government hammock, and hardly lift a finger, except for filling in the paperwork to gain access to the things she "wants".  What the hell else could she want?
http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/

[Skul]

Freedom from Want, eh? 
I swear, this is NOT a rhetorical question.  WHAT is left that they could possibly "want" for?  More of what we are already giving them?  I'm serious folks.  Obama showed us how Julia could skate through life living in the Government hammock, and hardly lift a finger, except for filling in the paperwork to gain access to the things she "wants".  What the hell else could she want?
http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/

Whatever you have, that they do not. It's the libtard way.

[I_B_Perky]

Freedom from Want, eh? 
I swear, this is NOT a rhetorical question.  WHAT is left that they could possibly "want" for?  More of what we are already giving them?  I'm serious folks.  Obama showed us how Julia could skate through life living in the Government hammock, and hardly lift a finger, except for filling in the paperwork to gain access to the things she "wants".  What the hell else could she want?
http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/

I'll tell you what they want. They want to live in a mansion, drive expensive cars, wear expensive clothes, and they want it all to be paid for by somebody like me. Dummies think they deserve that because they exist and are the bestest smartest folks in the world. Real work is beneath them. They feel they should sit on a throne and tell us peons how to live our lives while they pontificate about all the really major problems of the world.

That is what dummies want.

The end.

[sybilll]

I'll tell you what they want. They want to live in a mansion, drive expensive cars, wear expensive clothes, and they want it all to be paid for by somebody like me. Dummies think they deserve that because they exist and are the bestest smartest folks in the world. Real work is beneath them. They feel they should sit on a throne and tell us peons how to live our lives while they pontificate about all the really major problems of the world.

That is what dummies want.

The end.

Perky, sans the mansion, most of the takers I have encountered are doing/getting everything else in your rant. Hell, the latest scam uncovered by local TV is that unwed welfare mothers are surrendering their children to the state; the grandma intervenes saying she will foster them, then the state pays grandma $1100 per child, per month to "foster" them.  It just aired at 6PM today (Holiday weekend when no one is watching, shock, shock), but when they post it online, I will post it.  Unfrikkinbelievable.