Obama Said What?

In Argentina, Obama responded to a question about nonprofit community organizations and the necessity of attracting funding from both the public and private sectors. This is what he said:

“So often in the past there has been a division between left and right, between capitalists and communists or socialists, and especially in the Americas, that’s been a big debate,” Obama said.

“Those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don’t have to worry about whether it really fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory. You should just decide what works,” he added.

Obama went on to praise Cuba’s socialist system under dictator Raúl Castro, touting the country’s free access to basic education and health care, although he acknowledged that Havana itself “looks like it did in the 1950s” because the economy is “not working”.

Obama concluded his comments by arguing that a market-based system “has to have a social and moral and ethical and community basis.”

What could he possibly mean by all this? Was this his saying you, as a non-profit, can take money from profiteering people? Do people have moral qualms about taking people's gifts but not their taxes? Does this mean that taxes from profiteering people is money distinctive from gifts from profiteering people? Most important, is the President of the United States, with its highly structured laws and constitutional foundation and its obsession with individual rights and values, a utilitarian regarding economics and politics?

This is seriously strange stuff. And worse from a guy rumored to be educated. 

But, finally, we have an answer regarding torture of terrorists. If it works, Obama's for it.