Obama said it right!

I am not a big fan of the US president, Barak Obama, for various reasons. But today he said something I can relate to, when asked by a Japan journalist about his personal feelings on the tragegy:

"I’m heartbroken by this tragedy. I think when you see what’s happening in Japan you are reminded that for all our differences in culture or language or religion, that ultimately humanity is one. And when we face these kinds of natural disasters, whether it’s in New Zealand or Haiti or Japan, then you think about your own family and you think how would you feel if you lost a loved one, or if your entire lifesavings were gone because of the devastation." -President Barak Obama

Absolutely. Humanity IS one, and it's a shame it takes such tragedies to remind everyone that little fact...

-If you want to watch the entire speech (about 50 minutes long) you can go here (the part where he answer the question is at the end).

-Some amazing pictures that show the devastation in Japan here

Bibi

xxx

Tags: Japan, Obama, culture, differences, humanity, journalist, language, one, photo, religion, More…speech, video

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Comment by Andrée-Anne Bilodeau on March 11, 2011 at 6:51pm: Just to add: if you are interested you can check out a few headlines from around the globe about the situation: Headlines par Influence Communication

Comment by Elliott Verreault on March 12, 2011 at 12:13am: That's amazing :)

Comment by Shizuka Christian on March 12, 2011 at 12:22am: Nice comment he gave!!!!

And really I felt that world is one!!

Becase I'm in canada now but freinds in here asked me if my family is ok and

said I'll pray for Japan. I recived a nice comment from friends who are from all over the world.

Comment by Sukma Wijayanti on March 12, 2011 at 1:43am: I'm really startled when i hear about the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan.The magnitude of 8.9 it's really a biggest quake.And it's reminding me about 2004 Aceh quake and tsunami, all the entire things is go to pieces.And the tsunami swept away everything in its path.We never predict about the disaster... about act of god, so i think we must hand to hand, help each other to make sure that they are not alone to facing the tragedy.All my deeply sadness to Japanese, may you strong plough way through the disaster.

Comment by Jean-Baptiste Kattié on March 12, 2011 at 1:55am: waoow, it is really sad for japan, but according scientists that kind of disaster will appear again on 19th march because of supermoon i hope that it is wrong.

But now Andree why you don't like Obama? loooool

Comment by Andrée-Anne Bilodeau on March 12, 2011 at 11:34am: I love the Japanese culture, and when I woke up and realized what had happened, I was heartbroken. I spend the entire day on twitter, following the situation, and watching TV.

But like an earthquake specialist said, there always been earthquake of that magnitude, but the region wasn't populated so we didn't really care about it, and it probably happen again. Hopefully, next time everyone will be better prepare for it and they will be less victim. Because it may be the worst earthquake to have hit Japan in 140 years, it's still the one with less victime compare to the other bog ones.

And why I don't like Obama? He put so much hope in him, that he could act differently and change the face of the United-States, but he ended up doing the same, and the situation is not better. Only good thing he did was the abolition of "don't ask don't tell".

Comment by Elliott Verreault on March 12, 2011 at 12:25pm: And why I don't like Obama? He put so much hope in him, that he could act differently and change the face of the United-States, but he ended up doing the same, and the situation is not better. Only good thing he did was the abolition of "don't ask don't tell".

Unfortunately I'm afraid it's not all that easy. Being President doesn't mean being able to pass any projects or laws like that. Decisions need to be approved in Congress. There are a few (many now) republicans in Congress who don't like him so much unfortunately.

We need not to forget that he's just a man as well. There was so much hope & hype about him during the elections, it's impossible to live up to that given the friction with the opposition.

Comment by Arielle Sophie on March 12, 2011 at 1:02pm: Complètement d'accord avec toi E.

Obama avait beaucoup de convictions et d'espoir pour l'Amérique mais malheureusement il n'est pas seul à décider des lois. C'est bien là le problème.

Son discours pour le Japon est juste amazing (je me demande si c'est lui qui l'a rédigé d'ailleurs -lol- ).