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 ...
Susan Rice, not Condi. Article does mention her, but just to keep things crystal clear.
Even Barry doesn’t sepak for Barry. The dude even throws himself under the bus.
Goodness! It sounds like Barack expects his ring to be kissed at the outset. Europe had better respeck his authoritah or else!
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?”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Wow, with all those credentials and the expert insults the Europeans on the eve of a trip to Europe!
This clown isn’t even formally the Democrat nominee yet. He may be embarrassed by Americans but Bambi, baby, the feeling is mutual.
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.
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.
''Ich bin ein Beginner!''
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.
L0L!
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.
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)
LOL! I saw that. It's great!
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.
maybe, it will take real NAZI's to stop the INAZIs from conquering europe...
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.
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.

yitbos
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