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Since as early as June of 2014, a video has circulated online in which President Barack Obama seemed to speak of ordinary citizens' basic rights in a cavalier and disdainful manner. In the 19-second clip, President Obama appeared to say the following: The speech in question was given in Brussels, Belgium, lending credibility to the notion Obama revealed his true beliefs on governance before a more sympathetic European audience, and the comment subsequently slipped past the radar of American news media sources. No audio clues immediately challenged the clip's veracity, but one major red flag was a video cutaway: between the first and second portions of the short statement, the camera panned out over the audience before centering back on Obama's face, indicating different portions of something had been spliced together. President Obama did deliver a speech in Brussels on 26 March 2014 (Remarks by the President in Address to European Youth) from which those words were taken, but the quote presented in the video splices together two entirely separate portions of the address. What Obama actually said was a bit different in the proper context, and the excerpted phrasing below is highlighted (the full video is here): Considered in their full context, President Obama's mentions to ordinary men and women being too small-minded to govern their own affairs and order and progress being possible only when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign are clearly references to an old, undesirable form of power, not an expression of President Obama's viewpoint about how things are or should be in the world today.
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