Do you agree with this statement and who do you think said it?

Question

"You know, there's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit - the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us - the child who's hungry, the steelworker who's been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this - when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers - it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help."

Answer 1

Amen. I sure do agree. (Don't know who said it.)

Answer 2

o.k. u hit the point i agree with him..There are tribes out there where the children are going underground to catch rats to cook for dinner..the poorest in America has never stepped into that realm cuz we have soup kitchens...we must feed the poor no matter where or what color or any circumstance..We are suppose to be a caring nation..How can anyone say we have it as bad as them...malaria in some towns are killing many children just cuz they dont have a simple water pump..come on..where in america is that still happening..hold on..never has...We need to Thank the Lord for what we do have even in economic hard times and always have a giving heart

Answer 3

Barack Obama said this a couple of months ago.  I absolutely agree with him.  It's time for us as Americans and simply as human beings to "broaden our orbit of concern" so that we recognize how we are all connected, so that we know that if one person is hurting or oppressed, that all of us are hurting and oppressed on some level.

Answer 4

empathy i somehow agree with this statement usually i keep thinkin about something harder and harder it becomes sonfusing and rather complicated. i don't know man?!

Answer 5

Obama.  More rhetorical smoke and mirrors.

No, I don't agree.  It is easy for politicians to claim their "empathy" with people in trouble.  It is harder to find solutions that will actually improve their lot.  In Obama's case, the new rhetoric disguises the same old failed policies that destroy wealth and the incentive to work. You don't help by providing an incentive to fail.

Cheers,

Bruce

Answer 6

To believed to what someone said especially in the presidential campaign is hard to believed in.  One they are not telling the truth!  We need to be careful to vote.  In the campaign they will do anything to get our vote and then if they will, they will do their own  way to harass us.  All we can do is pray to God for the right person to lead our country and give us wisdom for this election and hoping that the candidate have a God's heart.

Answer 7

You bet Obama said it and since he went to a church where he, “Did not hear” anything preached, he certainly never heard Martin Luther King say, “If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."

In answering a question about abortion while campaigning in Iowa last year, the always deliberative Obama said: "I think the American people struggle with two principles: There's the principle that the fetus is not just an appendage, it's potential life ... They also believe that women should have some control over their bodies ..."  

The fetus is "potential life?"

Shortly after the Supreme Court's decision last year upholding the constitutionality of the ban on partial birth abortions, Obama spoke at a Planned Parenthood conference in Washington, D.C. Condemning the court's decision, he said that it was part of "a concerted effort to steadily roll back" legal abortions.

Criticizing Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion in the case, Obama said, "Justice Kennedy knows many things, but my understanding is that he does not know how to be a doctor."

Of course, Kennedy's job is not to be a doctor, but to be a judge. And in doing so, he included in his opinion testimony of a nurse who participated in a partial birth abortion procedure: "The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out ...The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high powered suction tube into the opening, and sucked the baby's brains out ... Now the baby went completely limp. He threw the baby in a pan, along with the placenta, and the instruments he had just used."

Thus the end of what, for Obama, was "potential life."

Nat Hentoff, no conservative, but a libertarian who writes for the "Village Voice,'' calls Obama the "infanticide candidate."

In a recent column, Hentoff noted that, while in the Illinois State Senate, Obama voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. This Act addressed cases where, during an abortion procedure, the live infant was actually born. The Act would have banned killing the living child.

Responding to John McCain's remarks delivered the other day at Wake Forest University about law and judges, Obama contrasted McCain's pledge of "judicial constraint" with his own concept of legal activism.

Obama said he'd seek out judges "who are sympathetic to those who are on the outside, those who are vulnerable, those who are powerless." Aside from this bizarre idea about the role of law, what irony there is in hearing this from a man with zero empathy for our most vulnerable -- the helpless infant in the womb.

For the 90 percent of blacks who are casting votes for Obama, know that almost 50 million children have been aborted since Roe V. Wade in 1973, a third of which were black babies. Is this really the man whom our community needs?

That is 17 million black babies aborted in 35 years, an average 485,000 babies a year, excuse me “potential lives” aborted.  Obama is okay with this.  So is ANYONE who votes for him for any reason.  This is not a black or white issue, and there is no gray area,

Regarding his two young daughters, Obama said, "I am going to teach them first about values and morals."  First? What are values and morals if there is a second? Faith, of course, includes forgiveness. But values and morals are absolutes. There is a world of difference between forgiveness and teaching alternative paths.

Get real people, Obama has no experience, no vision, (oh yeah change, Goosebumps, I forgot) and nothing going for him but his silver tongue. There is an old saying, “"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."  I would say this best describes the blind faith voters of Obama.  Unfortunately at this rate they too will learn the meaning of another old saying, “When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.”  

I love speaking with, not arguing with, his supporter says, “I WANT CHANGE…” and cannot tell you one single thing he has done in Illinois or the U.S. Senate.

This past June 6th was the 64th anniversary of D-Day.  5000 men died in ONE DAY in order for us NOT TO SPEAK GERMAN, we have NOT lost that many in Iraq yet.  But you can believe it TODAY Obama and his counterparts would be yelling from the rooftops that D-DAY was a failure.  I thank GOD he wand his counterparts were not around then to CHANGE things.

BTW The United States is number one in charitable causes around the world.  So check your facts and yourself ATMA