President Obama at the UN today.. Pics(heavy), Vid, and Transcript.. [View all]

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen, each year we come together to reaffirm the founding vision of this institution. For most of recorded history, individual aspirations were subject to the whims of tyrants and empires and divisions of race and religion and tribe were settled through the sword and the clash of armies.

The idea that nations and peoples could come together in peace to solve their disputes and advance a common prosperity seemed unimaginable. It took the awful carnage of two world wars to shift our thinking.

The leaders who built the United Nations were not naive. They did not think this body could eradicate all wars. But in the wake of millions dead and (inaudible) rubble, and with the development of nuclear weapons that could annihilate a planet, they understand that humanity could not survive the course it was on.

Full Transcript..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-president-obamas-speech-at-the-un-general-assembly/2013/09/24/64d5b386-2522-11e3-ad0d-b7c8d2a594b9_story.html

President Obama at the UN luncheon









U.S. President Barack Obama talks during a bilateral meeting with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman at the U.N. headquarters on September 24, 2013 in New York City



More pics!.. And, many Mahalos to Chips at the Obama Diary~
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/24/the-day-in-images-4/

I'm so appreciate that we have President Obama representing us today at the UN~

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