WNYC: Madeleine Albright on American Exceptionalism

Madeleine Albright speaks with WNYC's Brian Lehrer about American Exceptionalism is it unilateralism by another name? And what the rest of the world should expect from an Obama or a McCain administration.

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[ThunderheadNebula]

4 /4

"And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,"

[ThunderheadNebula]

3 /4

From Obama’s Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the {Muslims} should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.' page 261.

From Obama’s speech in San Fransico:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," he said.

[ThunderheadNebula]

2 /4

From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'

From Obama’s Dreams of My Father:

I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.'

[ThunderheadNebula]

1 /4 Obama’s Anti-American sentiment.

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating> myself to whites.'

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.'

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From Obama’s Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'

[punxsutawneybarney]

For more on Madeleine Albright see my video "Monster Madge"

[tonylee1973]

I think we should set an example for the rest of the world but not engage in these wars of aggression. albright and clinto were more aggressive than the fratboy

[scooterdooter]

Clinton carried on Bush's sanctions. As always it is a Bush to blame. Dig us into a quagmire and then blame the guy you saddle it with. Purely juvenile "reasoning", but Republican reasoning nonetheless.

[oldhacks]

albright called all the women and children that died in iraq due to her and Bill Clintons sanctions on Iraq "collateral damage"