These people actually scare the hell out of me....and they won't be happy until they've destroyed the economy by punishing capital and investment with punitive taxation.
Posted on 10/16/2008 1:00:59 PM PDT by pissant
From my observation perch in Stanford, and as an English European turned 24/7-cable news-Webcast junkie, I notice that many Americans still suffer from a touching delusion that this is their election. How curious. Don't they understand? This is our election. The world's election. Our future depends on it, and we live it as intensely as Americans do. All we lack is the vote.
The world may not have a vote, but it has a candidate. A BBC World Service poll, conducted across 22 countries this summer, found Barack Obama was preferred to John McCain by a ratio of 4 to 1. Nearly half those asked said an Obama victory would "fundamentally change" their perception of the United States. And it certainly needs changing. Over the two terms of President Bush, the Pew Global Attitudes Project, a series of worldwide public opinion surveys, has documented what anyone who travels around the world knows: a substantial fall in the standing, credibility, attractiveness, and therefore power of the United States.
In the American context, Obama is black or African American. His candidacy exposes yet again how that thing anachronistically called race - meaning the legacy of slavery and segregation - is the hidden warp and woof of American politics. In the international context, Obama is three other things. First, he's one of us - the child of an increasingly mixed-up world, now aspiring to be the most powerful man in it. A true cosmopolitan: not just African American but also a little bit each of Hawaiian, Kenyan, Kansan, Indonesian.
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In other words, he's a pathetic little nancy boy.
That's kinda what the whole point of "soveriegnty" is about. If you're not going to submit to our laws, voting for those who control our laws is completely off the table.
” Timothy Gorton Ash “
Well your being an English European you should understand this:
Buggar Off!
I think pissant will agree with me:
To Timothy gorton Ash: get stuffed.
Gordon Brown and Labour make me deeply uncomfortable and I’d love to see the Brits elect another conservative Thatcher-like government. Do you think they care about my comfort?
You forgot the mega-barf alert.
Yeah, why don't you go stain your teeth some more, you socialist limey b----
well, you get the idea.
Like I need another reason to vote against Barack Obama...
How quaint. A Euroweenie intellectually disenfranchising me from my vote by pretending it's not even my election.
I wish we could divorce our country from England all over again, just for giggles.
Agreed, but you were much too kind to the jerk.
sure u can vote- just give ACORN your name & address, they’ll send u an absentee ballot
hell all the college kids are voting twice using absentee ballots & at their school
this election is so fixed what the hell
Is this guy read y to disown the Queen becasue we said so?
I’m sure this guy wouldn’t mind if we Americans voted in Britain’s elections then. Permanent Tory majority!
Europeans. The people who gave the world Stain, Hitler, and Mussolini in the last century are now drooling over Obama.
Why do I think this is not a good thing?
Send this jackass to Hindu-Kush and let him wear a turban so our soldier can fired his ass.
These people actually scare the hell out of me....and they won't be happy until they've destroyed the economy by punishing capital and investment with punitive taxation.
Obama is black or African American
No, 0bama0dinga is an arab.
the descendant of a slave gatherer and the owners of slaves
Horsesh*t.
There is nothing cosmopolitan about Barack Obama. Mr. Ash's bizarre idea is itself an effete European notion that has no basis in reality. Obama is someone who has travelled very little after his childhood. I don't think he could find his way across Kansas on I-70 without a map and GPS.
He certainly isn't a little bit of Hawaiian. Spending four high school years at Punahou don't count for squat points in getting to be even a little bit Hawaiian. You don't get that even after living for 30 years in Kahuku.
And Mr. Ash obviously didn't watch Obama's bio flick at the Rat convention. According to that adventure in fantasy, Obama never even heard of Indonesia until the month before the convention.
What Obama is, is a fraud.
Every square inch of his surface, and every ounce of his meat and bone is fake to the core. What's so cosmopolitan about that? Now, Kenya - well, that's a different story....
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