From "Heard on the Stump," WSJ: February 27, 2016:
Barack Obama speaking in Jacksonville, Florida about "folks who are on the campaign trail"
"They're spending all their time talking down America . I don't know when it became fashionable to do that."Herewith a few wild guesses of when "it became fashionable to do that," courtesy of the Heritage Foundation:
(1) Speech by President Obama, Rhenus Sports Arena, Strasbourg, France, April 3, 2009. "In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."
(2) Speech by President Obama to the Turkish Parliament, Ankara, Turkey, April 6, 2009. "Every challenge that we face is more easily met if we tend to our own democratic foundation. This work is never over. That's why, in the United States, we recently ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. That's why we prohibited--without exception or equivocation--the use of torture. All of us have to change. And sometimes change is hard...Our country still struggles with the legacies of slavery and segregation, the past treatment of Native Americans."
(3) President Obama, speech at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., May 21, 2009.
"There is also no question that Guantanamo set back the moral authority that is America's strongest currency in the world. Instead of building a durable framework for the struggle against al Qaeda that drew upon our deeply held values and traditions, our government was defending positions that undermined the rule of law."
