Obama BREAKS SILENCE

and now this is not just an abstraction and I think this is one of the challenges that we have uh it and I saw this even before the last election people tend to think “Ah democracy rule of law independent
judiciary freedom of the press that’s all abstract stuff because it’s not affecting the price of eggs.” Well you know what it’s about to affect the price of eggs the it it it one of the things that has distinguished us in the past has been this basic idea that we’re we are a rulesbased society what that means is that
you know what I can support one candidate instead of another and I don’t have to worry that the police are going to come harass me or my customers that’s what happens in other places that’s what happens in Russia we we take for granted the idea that we don’t have to pay bribes or hire somebody’s cousin in order to get a business permit that’s how we build the economy we did that that’s why this place worked and it has very concrete uh impacts on all of our lives.
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