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WHY Did Obama In His Inauguration Speech Say: "My Fellow Citizens" and not "Fellow Americans"?

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Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 7:33 PM
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WHY Did Obama In His Inauguration Speech Say: "My Fellow Citizens" and not "Fellow Americans"?

Obama in his inauguration speech said:

"My Fellow Citizens..."

Why didn't he say "Fellow Americans?" which would be normal

In my opinion, he said it ON PURPOSE...
WHY?:

Beause of this:

By saying "My Fellow Citizens", he actually states he too is a citizen.
In other words: he did want us to believe that a "Citizen" can be President, because he just was sworn in...

The fact is however that being a citizen is not enough to hold the office of POTUS. One has to be a "Natural Born Citizen"

What does it mean? : It means Obama KNOWS about his ineligible issue. And that`s why he said "My Fellow Citizens", to conceal the fact a Citizen cannot be president..and to make us believe he can be...

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 7:36 PM

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because we are world citizens.

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 7:37 PM

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New world order.

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 7:38 PM

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are we not citizens?

SDLP03
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1/20/2009 7:42 PM

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I noticed that too. Pretty damn fishy to me. Kiss our country goodbye.

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 8:00 PM

Re: WHY Did Obama In His Inauguration Speech Say: "My Fellow Citizens" and not "Fellow Americans"?

The entire world was watching the speech... not just Americans.

Bush personified the arrogance of "We're Americans, so that makes everything we do okay, even if its similar to the things other countries do that we condemn".

I believe Obama was trying to say he will be a President that treats every good citizen on this planet as deserving of the same respect that is extended to Americans.

I think you're just trying to twist things around, OP.

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 8:03 PM

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simply because he addresses his speech to the whole world

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 8:05 PM

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He chose his words carefully - citizen vs. American. I think he intentionally said "fellow citizens" to make the point that he considers himself a fellow citizen (equal to the populace) first vs a specialized government figure. One of the meanings of the word "citizen".

Eggifer
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1/20/2009 8:05 PM

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I pointed this out in another thread... Not every person living in the US is a cilizen...some are legal aliens...i thought it was odd that he said Citizens...sort of reminded me of Roman days... Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your rears!

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 8:08 PM

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Because "America" encompasses a lot more than the United States thereof? AT LEAST FOR NOW MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 8:11 PM

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Clinton, Bush, Reagan and Nixon all said 'my fellow citizens' at the start of their inauguration addresses too. Lyndon Johnson said 'my fellow countrymen', and that's as far back as I could be bothered to go. [link to www.bartleby.com] So yeah, this isn't particularly unusual after all.

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 8:13 PM

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becuase he was speaking to the world DUH! Quoting: ThePatriotMind Definition of Citizen: A person that is a legally recognized as a member of a state, with associated rights and obligations. SO "a member of a state" and since he said "Fellow Citizens", he referred to America and not to somehing else, like "the whole world" as somebody else previously stated..

malu

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1/20/2009 8:16 PM

Re: WHY Did Obama In His Inauguration Speech Say: "My Fellow Citizens" and not "Fellow Americans"?

because we are world citizens.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 360069

that is the line being fed to us lately, granpa bush broke us into the new world order concept

luckily tptb only want good things for us

*puke*

When peaceful revolution becomes impossible, violent revolution becomes inevitable.

"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking."

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 596308
1/20/2009 8:17 PM

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Hell, even Lincoln used 'fellow citizens'. [link to www.bartleby.com]

OneAngryMom
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1/20/2009 8:20 PM

Re: WHY Did Obama In His Inauguration Speech Say: "My Fellow Citizens" and not "Fellow Americans"?

Clinton, Bush, Reagan and Nixon all said 'my fellow citizens' at the start of their inauguration addresses too. Lyndon Johnson said 'my fellow countrymen', and that's as far back as I could be bothered to go.

[link to www.bartleby.com]

So yeah, this isn't particularly unusual after all.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 596308

Thanks for keepin it real!

I'm tired of all the oody oody
we were addressed by a leader who placed responsibility on the CITIZENS of this country to join together....in LOVE (by the way) the way we know we CAN....

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 8:22 PM

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Because "Americans" means not only people in USA, but also everyone living in two continents from Canada to Chile?

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 8:42 PM

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed! Thanks GLP.

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 8:48 PM

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his better said my fellow alien citizens :D

Anonymous Coward
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1/20/2009 8:49 PM

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his better said my fellow alien citizens :D Quoting: Anonymous Coward 513431 in america you can found anything from Bilbo, Sparhawk, goblins and pixies,Snowman, Willow, trolls and the seven dwarfs :D

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