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Another Unearthed Speech? 2002 Clip Shows Obama Railing Against Rich People Who Inflict ‘Violence’ By Using ‘Accountants and Tax Loopholes’

Oct. 3, 2012 2:25pm Mytheos Holt

Accuses rich people of venal motives for supporting nonviolence: “Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want.”
Likens the use of tax loopholes and accounting to using fire hoses and attack dogs to attack protesters.
Thinks “empathy” is the solution.

In what could become more controversial remarks, an old video of Barack Obama has surfaced showing the then-state senator accusing rich people of using their economic power to “violate” the lives of their employees, and keep them down.

Morgen Richmond appears to have uncovered this latest attack on the wealthy by the man who would be president. It comes from an address by Obama on Martin Luther King day in 2002, first uploaded to Google Video three years ago, and recently publicized on the blog Patterico’s Pontifications.

Patterico describes the speech this way:

By and large it is a nice speech by a rising politician. Obama speaks about the need for empathy in society, about taking responsibility for our actions, and the audacity of hope. He levels barbs at the wealthy and unempathetic, but also criticizes those who blame the system for the arrest of O.J. Simpson and the crack epidemic. Although the audio quality is poor because of the echo in the church, one can tell that Obama is well spoken and articulate. Joe Biden would have been proud.

But there are a few times when the mask slips, just a little.

View the controversial section of Morgen’s video below, followed by Patterico’s transcript:

The philosophy of nonviolence only makes sense if the powerful can be made to recognize themselves in the powerless. It only makes sense if the powerless can be made to recognize themselves in the powerful. You know, the principle of empathy gives broader meaning, by the way, to Dr. King’s philosophy of nonviolence. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want. They want to make sure people don’t take their stuff. But the principle of empathy recognizes that there are more subtle forms of violence to which we are answerable. The spirit of empathy condemns not only the use of firehoses and attack dogs to keep people down but also accountants and tax loopholes to keep people down. I’m not saying that what Enron executives did to their employees is the moral equivalent of what Bull Connor did to black folks, but I’ll tell you what, the employees at Enron feel violated. When a company town sees its plant closing because some distant executives made some decision despite the wage concessions, despite the tax breaks, and they see their entire economy collapsing, they feel violence.

TheBlaze has not yet managed to find evidence of these clips getting traction during the 2008 election cycle. However, that’s not to say that their existence went completely unnoticed, and given that the video was posted three years ago, it’s eminently plausible that at least one media outlet noticed. Nevertheless, it seems this is the first sustained coverage these clips have received, and they are certainly of interest.

View the full, unedited speech below:

You can watch more excerpts from the speech over at Patterico’s Pontifications.

H/T: Twitchy

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gbfreak
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:31pm
Hate mongering thesbian! That’ all this bag of bones is. No spine, no leadership, no morals….he’s pathetic!

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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:47pm
  Hey Odumbass , the only thing keeping people down is welfare , and the public education system that your unions control………………………
  
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perry1980
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:26pm
Wake Up America

Obama has Always and will Always H@TE Capitalism, Big Corporations, Wealthy People.
He seeks to PUNISH them for their accomplishments.

November 6th We the People will “have to let him go”

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:48pm
  Do you wonder how many accountants and tax loopholes he depends upon to protect his personal finances? Surely even ENCINOM knows that 0bama does not figure this out on his kitchen table.
  
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cookcountypatriot
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:26pm
and this is the little man who won the nobel peace prize..lol ,what a joke,,,,,he hates a whole race of people because of the color of thier skin,,he,s in bed with the muslim botherhood who wants to take over the united states and institute sharia law against us. and the progressive white slaves who follow this man will do anything to keep him in…lie,cheat and god knows what else…nazism is back and it under a new name…PROGRESSIVEISM

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- TurboCat
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 6:28am
  Where has that southern accent gone to now? It wasn’t even a well put-on southern accent. Sounding like a fool. Again. Watch and listen to him in this clip and then think to yourself “Someday, this man is going to be the President of the United States”! Be afraid. Be very afraid.
  
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jman-6
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:23pm
As a Born again Believer I am AMAZED at how many “Christians” are surprised or outraged by this D-monrat or what is happening in the world. I used to feel the same way until while reading His Word GOD gave me that Awesome Peace [that only He can], and reminded me what JESUS said “all this would come to pass and for us not to worry!”(paraphrased) I don’t mean this in a malicious way but as a kind reminder to my fellow children of GOD that we are only hear now to spread the “Good News” in these last an ever darkening days to those lost without hope! Stand-up n Look-up for our Redemption is near and Great is our Reward!, only thanks to the Grace of our LORD JESUS CHRIST

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SREGN
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:18pm
When I saw the headline all I could envision was the beginning of Monthy Python’s The Meaning Of Life where the accountants morph into pirates and attack the neighboring buildings. Accounting violence. Ha!

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turkey13
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:12pm
Wow – does this mean he will do an execurtive order doing away with all loopholes and no one will be able to use them. If he does he will be re-elected because it won’t affect the little people that put him in office and it will make him look very presidential. YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! Forward.Foward.

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- michael48
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:19pm
  bet you’ll be glad to pay reperations…this twit gets back on his throne…you can make book on it..have a “hoax and chains day…
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:32pm
  Classic Marxist strategy,, and scam,, the great con…
  
  Use the rich as the straw man,, attack them, encourage division, envy, jealousy and victimhood.
  
  You present as the saviour of equality through redistribution, really just a legally authorized plunder.
  
  Ultimately enriching and empowering yourself and your friends…
  
  Elitist parasites using the “useful idiots” to steal from the productive… when their isn’t anything left to plunder.. it never ends well
  
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wordsofwisdom
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:10pm
I can’t tell you how much this kind of hate speech makes me want to gag. It’s always the rich’s fault “crutch” people like Obama use to try & get elected so they can get what? Get rich! them selves.
If their were people willing to work their ass’s off for subsistence wages only in order to build you a, lets say a Microsoft or a GM or a rail road or any number of big rich business’s because you were either not smart enough or to lazy to build your own life. Then to say they owe you now for some kind of debt that has come due, is ridiculous. Rich people create jobs not poor people! Not poor governments either. If all you lib’s get your way you will all be getting what you deserve for sure. “Ode to Obama” http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/13541875
This song explains a lot.

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drphil69
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:08pm
So Obama claims that rich people WHO FOLLOW THE LAW are ‘violent’ for using LEGAL METHODS TO REDUCE THEIR TAXES… but the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IS A ‘PEACEFUL’ ORGANIZATION…

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Gonzo
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:07pm
You would think a demon would be uncomfortable in the pulpit.

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- jman-6
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:27pm
  LOL only in a True Bible Believing Church!
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:47pm
  They soaked the pulpit in holy water before he arrived.
  
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Ronko
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:07pm
Don’t forget this is the same guy in a 2001 interview that said the Constitution is full of negative liberties. Further proof that the president was indoctrinated for 20 years by BLT from Rev Wright.

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Rickfromillinois
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:06pm
Of course either the “main stream” media will totally ignore it or they will just claim that it was along time ago and has already been fully reported upon. Of course let’s not forget the ever popular, it’s just political, whatever that means.

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Gonzo
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:05pm
Same message he has today before it was softened for mass consumption.

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RightThinking1
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:02pm
He should have added “Turbo Tax” to the list…, as in “Turbo Tim Geitner”.
Or perhaps he is speaking of outright cheats like Charlie Rangal?
No…, wait! I got it…, he means Mitt Romney, who used those evil charitable deductions as a tax dodge.
Anyone here want to bet as to whether Obama took his donated Nobel ‘Prize’ as a charitable deduction?
Perhaps he is speaking of the $3.50/pair deduction that Hillary took for each pair of Bill’s discarded drawers donated to GoodWill.

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:57pm
You can see how rich and powerful people keep those under them down, just study the last 3 1/2 years of the Owebama Administration.

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Viking64
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:55pm
Over 50 percent of Obama’s supporters are clueless on most all political issues, economics, boarder control, foreign policy, etc.,etc.,etc, He has to rant about rich people, who the hell do you know smart, who would ever listen to the obviously worst president in modern or even all US political history

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JQCitizen
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:52pm
Yes, there are more subtle forms of violence.

For instance, instead of enslaving the American People with Guns…
…You could enslave them with Debt.

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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:29pm
  What he will actually do, is take away our guns and bury us in debt. Case in point: UN Small Arms Treaty; and Biden’s admission that the middle class is buried in taxes….OOPS!
  
  I am self-employed, and am not rich by any means; but I consider myself successful. I’m certainly do not hold a grudge against “rich people”….heck, they make for the best clients!
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:51pm
Look folks Barry could molest a golden retriever on the white house lawn and his base will still vote for him that’s a given. So I’ll address the few remaining rational Americans,what’s it going to take for you to see this man is a vile Marxist mulatto POS with a chip on his shoulder the size of Texas?

He detests this country as founded and he has been making us pay literally trillions for our past sins,according to his sick twisted world view. he hates the ‘rich’ for their wealth and engages in class warfare to advance his Marxist agenda,he’s killing the coal industry and inflicted socialized medicine on us with dem only votes.He’s a pathological liar narcissistic sociopath foreign exchange student fraud POS president who can’t be fired soon enough.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:00pm
  Yet he has become one of the very people he has hated so much, his whole life. After all, I don’t see HIM trying to give his money away.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:08pm
  Yes I forgot he’s also a hypocrite,he tells the suckers he”s fighting the ‘evil’ rich to protect the suckers and them being suckers and idiots naturally believe his BS.
  
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- kalli
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:19pm
  Totally agree with you Progressive…and note, he’s looking at purchasing a $35million estate in Hawaii. The WH occupants have ripped this country off for millions of taxpayer dollars, $1.4million for vacations etc. last year, as his po’ folk suffer from the rich getting richer and not paying all their income to the gov’t for him to waste.
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:56pm
  Wanna bet the money used to purchase the Hawaii estate came from the funds sent to Solyndra?
  
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- ambrosia
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 8:40pm
  The Mad Monster…Obamastein !
  
  He makes me physically nauseous.
  The Bride of Obamastein makes me equally nauseous.
  
  Berware America-
  as if he hasn’t done enough damage.
  this CREEP wants 4 more years to finish off our country.
  
  He’s hoping for re-election, but will settle for revolution-
  one way or the other,
  he won’t be stopped or go, lightly.
  
  These video clips are atrocious,
  can you imagine how bad the others are, that he’s hidden ?
  
  He’s a nut, crazy, insane…absolutely too unstable
  & self-obsessed to covet ANY power,
  leave alone, “rule” America.
  
  He should scare everyone enough,
  to get their fannies to the voting poll-
  no matter what your political persuasion,
  vote this S.O.B. out and do your p[art to save our nation.
  
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Mainer forever
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:49pm
I can NOT click on the video….I can NOT listen to his voice…I am so ashamed of the media,,,,so ashamed of people who supressed this information.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:54pm
  Same here I can’t hear that voice or see that Marxist heathen another second.Think of it he was just a community agitator,a carnival barker who lies constantly and the suckers actually believed and still do believe his BS lies,it’s amazing.
  
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- IAMMADDOG
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:10pm
  I don’t need to hear any more crap from him. I already know I will not vote for the guy! He sucks as president.
  
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- kalli
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:11pm
  I, too, have never been able to watch or listen to this evil person. I will not be listening tonight either, but will read about the debate that really means nothing to me. I am glad that most of the comments from the videos are posted to read
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:53pm
  Mainer: Have you ever been to Monmouth?
  
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kalli
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:48pm
I am glad to finally see this evil man exposed for the real person he is and the real agenda he has for this country. I hope people who currently support him will come to realize exactly how he wants to transform the country. The media is guilty of treason for covering up all that is wrong with this con man. I pray all involved will pay the full price they’ve duly earned for helping to bring a communist regime to power.

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The-Monk
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:48pm
“The philosophy of nonviolence only makes sense if the powerful can be made to recognize themselves in the powerless. It only makes sense if the powerless can be made to recognize themselves in the powerful.”

That sounds like his “collective salvation” theory……

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:52pm
  Hi MONK, right on, right on.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:56pm
  It sure does and it belongs on the trash heap never to be espoused by anyone ever again.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:04pm
  It sounds like double talk designed to enflame the masses.
  
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thibx
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:42pm
he got some nerve he defended the slum lord against the tentants who had no heat in chicago’s cold winter. lots of those dumb people probably voted for him. if that’s racist then i am a racist. just like today stiring up hate is all he does all he knows. hate the rich man. i don’t hate the rich man create a job and give me a job. no he wants to take it because he entitled. he is not entitaled to a damn thing the rich man has neither is anyone else. this man if he is a man is full of hate just like hitler.

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banjarmon
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:41pm
This guy should never have been elected to be the leader of the USA!!

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- MadenNZ
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:17pm
  Have you ever seen a President who hates his countrymen more than this bloke on that pulpit! My gosh I hope the duped idiots who voted for him are shamed by their ignorance, I have a little to zero respect for the man!
  
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vic138
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:34pm
Doesn’t he use tax “loopholes” (or the tax code “rules” to the rest of us) now?

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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:39pm
  Do what I say and not as I do is his motto.
  
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Stelex
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:33pm
So we’re only 4 years behind on the vetting process…….

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Sharon Rose
Posted on October 3, 2012 at 2:31pm
How many drones will vote him back in?? I don’t know many who voted for him the first time and even fewer this time. The polls are nuts.

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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 3, 2012 at 3:16pm
  Don’t be fooled. There is a sufficient number of mindless dolts who support this forked tongued POS. Just pray they are too lazy to get off the couch, put down the bag of tax payer funded Cheetos and vote.
  
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