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Jesse Watters Says Obama Doesn't Look At Things 'From An American Perspective'

Fox News host Jesse Watters on Monday accused former President Barack Obama of “never really looking at things from an American perspective.” (Watch the video below.)

Watters was named Tucker Carlson’s permanent replacement in the channel’s 8 p. m. time slot, but held his usual spot on “The Five” when he criticized Obama’s take on the Titan submersible tragedy.

Obama told CNN that news coverage of the Titan implosion that killed all five aboard dwarfed that of a shipwreck of migrants off Greece that killed hundreds. “In some ways it’s indicative of the degree to which people’s life chances have grown so disparate,” Obama said after noting that “obscene inequality” was threatening democracy.

Watters didn’t mention false far-right claims that Obama was not born in the United States, but he seemed to dance around them.

“When you are a citizen of the world, you always think about the world instead of the United States,” Watters said. “Remember, this is a guy whose father has roots in Africa. This is a guy who spent a lot of his childhood in Southeast Asia … and then spent a lot of time in Hawaii.” He noted that Hawaii, Obama’s place of birth, was the last to earn statehood.

“He’s never really looking at things from an American perspective,” Watters continued. “He’s always speaking to the world. Even when he’s speaking to us, he’s appealing to the world.”

Watters said the intense interest in the submersible stemmed from the Titanic angle, the perceived suspense when those aboard were thought to be running out of oxygen, and the drama’s proximity to the United States.

Eve Carson, 22 y/o, she was class president, top of her class and a straight A student who was loved by everyone she came across and never made anyone feel like an outsider. Her academic success was so great that she got full scholarship to both Harvard and Yale. In addition to her academic success, she was also class president and was a humanitarian, who travelled to developing countries to teach and provide aid to children. Eve's life goal was to do medicine and at the time of her death, she was studying pre-med at the University of North Carolina.

In 2008, she was targeted by two criminals, who were looking to rob her. They broke into her apartment and kidnapped her then stole money from her account (~1400 USD). Once, the daily limit was reached, they then walked her out to an intersection, in a woody area, and killed her. Before, they shot her 4 times, it was said that Eve had asked for them to pray with her, when she realized they were going to kill her. Her body was discovered the following morning.

For the next couple of days, the two killers continued to take money from her account, which eventually allowed police to track and find them. Both men were sentence to life in prison and the entire nation of North Carolina moaned for her death. Her funeral service was one of the biggest ever seen in the state at the time. Posthumously, the dean of the university that Eve attended, awarded her the title of most exception female student of her graduating class. In addition to this, a scholarship and a memorial garden were also created to honor her. Eve was so well loved that even to this day, people still know of her name on campus and remember her fondly.

Do you think this young woman should be honored with a statue at North Carolina University?