Former President Barack Obama is weighing in on the UFO controversy, telling New York Times columnist Ezra Klein that the existence of aliens “wouldn’t change my politics at all,” he said.
“Because my entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating in the middle of space,” Obama said on Tuesday’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show podcast.
“When we were going through tough political times and I’d try to cheer my staff up, I’d tell them a statistic that John Holdren, my science adviser, told me, which was that there are more stars in the known universe than there are grains of sand on the planet Earth,” he said.
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“Well, sometimes it cheered them up; sometimes they’d just roll their eyes and say, ‘Oh, there he goes again,’ ” Obama said. “But the point is, I guess, that my politics has always been premised on the notion that the differences we have on this planet are real. They’re profound. And they cause enormous tragedy as well as joy.”
He continued: “We’re just a bunch of humans with doubts and confusion. We do the best we can. And the best thing we can do is treat each other better because we’re all we’ve got. And so I would hope that the knowledge that there were aliens out there would solidify people’s sense that what we have in common is a little more important.”
Source: Barack Obama Says Confirmation of UFOs ‘Wouldn’t Change My Politics’
