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No free ride for Europe, says top Barack Obama aide
The Telegraph ^ | 7/18/2008 | Toby Harnden in Washington

Posted on 07/18/2008 2:19:15 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

Europe will be challenged by a President Barack Obama to contribute more to global security and will no longer have the "easy out" of pandering to anti-Bush sentiment, according to a top adviser to the Democratic candidate.

But the former Rhodes Scholar, who took her Master's degree and doctorate in international relations at New College, Oxford, made clear that an Obama administration would also challenge Europe to do more after a Democratic victory in November's election.

"It would signal a return to the more pragmatic and bi-partisan traditions of American foreign policy, which have been lost to ideology in the Bush years," she said. "He will not proceed through an ideological frame and seek to impose that frame on every challenge.

"Barack Obama will lead from a position of strength and seek progress, and he will want to work with Europe in very strong partnership."

"It means we in the United States will have to do our part; but Europe will have to do its part too. There can be no free riders if this is going to be an effective partnership."

Miss Rice, 43, who is married with two children, was an Assistant Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton after a meteoric rise to the higher reaches of American policymaking.

Along with Tony Lake, Mr Clinton's first National Security Adviser - the key figure at the right hand of the president who co-ordinates foreign policy - Miss Rice leads a team of some 300 foreign policy advisers.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: europe; foreignpolicy; obama; susanrice
Of course, the aide doesn't speak for B. Hussein.
1 posted on 07/18/2008 2:19:17 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman

Susan Rice, not Condi. Article does mention her, but just to keep things crystal clear.


2 posted on 07/18/2008 2:22:16 PM PDT by xDGx
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To: bruinbirdman

Even Barry doesn’t sepak for Barry. The dude even throws himself under the bus.


3 posted on 07/18/2008 2:22:34 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: bruinbirdman

Goodness! It sounds like Barack expects his ring to be kissed at the outset. Europe had better respeck his authoritah or else!


4 posted on 07/18/2008 2:24:08 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: Army Air Corps

Do we really want a re-armed and active Germany? Do we really want these people on the world stage once again? What is the old saying? “Third times a charm?”


5 posted on 07/18/2008 2:25:19 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: bruinbirdman

Do any of these people including the haloed one, speak in details, facts, and specifics? Every time any of these acolytes or their high priest opens a mouth they sound like some 16 year old running for student government.


6 posted on 07/18/2008 2:25:26 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: bruinbirdman

In my 59 years I’ve seen a lot of “tough guy” posers get their @$$es kicked. BO really needs to tell his “aides” to cool it. The people haven’t spoken yet. BO is still nothing but a former “community organizer” with two years of being a junior Senator under his belt prior to declaring himself a Messiah and going off to run for president.


7 posted on 07/18/2008 2:26:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Constitution was not written to protect those who want to destroy America.)
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To: xkaydet65
The Obamassiah is an “idea man”; he does not deign to deal with the mundane drudgery of “details.” Details are “old politics” and Barry is the New Soviet Man, er, I mean, he is a New Politician bringing forth the New Politics.
8 posted on 07/18/2008 2:28:19 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: bruinbirdman

Europe, hell. How about we challenge the stinkin Democrats to contribute something useful for a change instead of all this crap we’ve had to put up with from them for the past ~8 years.


9 posted on 07/18/2008 2:29:08 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: bruinbirdman
So, Kennedy goes to Brandenburg and assures the Germans the leader of the Free World stands with them.

Reagan goes to Brandenburg as the leader of the Free World and demands the wall be torn down.

Obama goes to Brandenburg to abdicate leadership, declare us all equal partners and whine for more European contributions to security. Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.

10 posted on 07/18/2008 2:33:05 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: bruinbirdman
Oh, and he's going overseas to criticize a sitting American President to a bunch of foreigners. Am I the only American who will be outraged by that?
11 posted on 07/18/2008 2:34:30 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: bruinbirdman

Does B Hussein Nobama speak German, French, Spanish, Arabic or Farsi? He talks about being embarrassed because WE AMERICANS speak only one language...how many does he speak other than American. He doesn’t even have the slightest idea of the original American’s languages spoken when they get together. But I guess when one is so elite and so above the rest of human creation, everyone will understand what he says, no matter the country he visits.


12 posted on 07/18/2008 2:35:34 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: bruinbirdman
9/11/2001

2,974 deaths

19 Islamic hijackers

4 Billion dollars in lost jobs and revenue

Thanks Europe for the candle light services.

Please keep Obama...he's one of you...
13 posted on 07/18/2008 2:37:33 PM PDT by Coffee200am ("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears..."/s)
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To: colorado tanker

No, there are a lot of us who cringe whenever a former democRAT president or democRAT wannabe travels to foreign countries, because we know the bum will speak against our country.


14 posted on 07/18/2008 2:38:40 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: bruinbirdman
Fascinating. On one day, he says he wants make sure Great Britain ends its role as the US’s “poodle.” Fast forward a few days, and he's saying all our allies have to pony up and do what he says they should be doing. Remind me again how that's NOT being our "poodle?"
15 posted on 07/18/2008 2:39:54 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (0bambi: the audacity of hype)
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To: bruinbirdman

Interesting. Thanks for posting.


16 posted on 07/18/2008 2:42:51 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: bruinbirdman
But the former Rhodes Scholar, who took her Master's degree and doctorate in international relations

Wow, with all those credentials and the expert insults the Europeans on the eve of a trip to Europe!

17 posted on 07/18/2008 2:43:13 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: bruinbirdman

This clown isn’t even formally the Democrat nominee yet. He may be embarrassed by Americans but Bambi, baby, the feeling is mutual.


18 posted on 07/18/2008 2:43:13 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: bruinbirdman

He’s got the whole world in his hand...He’s got the whole world in his hand...

He’s got the whole world in his hand...Welcome to Obamaland.


19 posted on 07/18/2008 2:43:51 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bruinbirdman

And who in hell do the Democrats think created all this “anti-Bush” sentiment in the first place if not them? If the Democrats had been on board to win like the Republicans were in WWII, the lost treasure and blood would have been a fraction of what it is and would have stopped long ago. How I despise those treacherous bastards.


20 posted on 07/18/2008 2:44:02 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: colorado tanker
As another FReeper has noted, the only coherent thing that Osamabama could say if he should speak at the Brandenburg Gate is:

''Ich bin ein Beginner!''

21 posted on 07/18/2008 2:47:23 PM PDT by SAJ
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To: the_Watchman

This is the same Susan Rice who, under Madeline Albright, had a snit fit with Sudan and REFUSED to let them hand over Osama binLaden.

The proximate cause of 9/11 is now advising Monsieur Beaucoup.


22 posted on 07/18/2008 2:47:56 PM PDT by plangent
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To: SAJ

L0L!


23 posted on 07/18/2008 2:48:38 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Actually the Germans are for all intents and purposes going EXTINCT - demographically. Unless long-standing demographic trends change there will NOT be a Germany in 70 years.

So no worries about a third go.


24 posted on 07/18/2008 3:03:25 PM PDT by Transformers
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To: Transformers

Same trend holds true for most of Europe. Except for the muzzies, of course, who will end up running the whole continent. (And returning it to the stone ages, like their own homelands)


25 posted on 07/18/2008 3:07:24 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: bruinbirdman
Get tough with Europeans? Hey, the Obama campaign has the perfect messenger sitting on the bench, who could be sent to tour Europe with the new "tough love" message:

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."

-- Michelle Obama --


See, Michelle Obama had the right message -- instead of hectoring the domestic audience we can send her abroad to hector and harass Europeans! I'm sure she will be warmly received with that "tough love" message.

Maybe she could deliver it while standing before the Brandenburg Gate...... /s
26 posted on 07/18/2008 3:22:26 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: SAJ
''Ich bin ein Beginner!''

LOL! I saw that. It's great!

27 posted on 07/18/2008 3:36:54 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: tillacum
No, there are a lot of us who cringe whenever a former democRAT president or democRAT wannabe travels to foreign countries, because we know the bum will speak against our country.

Thing is, when these idiots do this just to get cheap applause from the European elites, they send a signal to the cold blooded realists like the Russians or Iranians or North Koreans and that ilk that they are an ignorant naif who can be rolled in a negotiation. Which seems exactly the case with the Obamessiah.

28 posted on 07/18/2008 3:40:09 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
maybe, it will take real NAZI's to stop the INAZIs from conquering europe...
29 posted on 07/18/2008 3:54:13 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist -CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: colorado tanker

I agree. These same people, democRAT ex-presidents, are for sale, not matter how little the money. The chinese leaders were amazed how cheap clinton was bought.


30 posted on 07/18/2008 3:55:01 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: colorado tanker

If the haloed one is depending on the Euros for future security, find that cave in the Bittertroot Mts. and stock up on food water and ammo.


31 posted on 07/18/2008 4:42:03 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: bruinbirdman
The Anti-Christ speaks.


32 posted on 07/18/2008 11:23:46 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made.")
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To: xkaydet65
"If the haloed one is depending on the Euros for future security,"

yitbos

33 posted on 07/19/2008 12:59:48 AM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
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