Obama to UAW: “trying to climb to the very top” was not what America is “about,”

Could the contrast be any greater?

Barack Obama:

“America’s not just looking out for yourself, it’s not just about greed, it’s not just about trying to climb to the very top...”

Ronald Reagan:

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

Via CNS:

President Obama – in a speech to the United Auto Workers union – said that “trying to climb to the very top” was not what America is “about,” saying that it was “greed” and that in reality “we’re all in it together.”

“America’s not just looking out for yourself, it’s not just about greed, it’s not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down,” Obama said at the UAW’s annual National Community Action Program Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.

Instead, Obama – who climbed to the very top of American politics just three years ago – said that instead America was about being “all in it together,” and giving people “a hand up.”

“When our assembly lines grind to a halt, we work together, and we get them going again,” he said. “When somebody else falters, we try to give them a hand up, because we know [that] we’re all in it together.”