Posted on 12/01/2009 9:41:10 AM PST by markomalley
What troubles me about the US today is that the reaction to the Obama presidency is so irrational, emotional and, dare I say it, ignorant
Did you read about Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, the thinking man's Sarah Palin, in the Observer the other weekend?
Did you read Chris McGreal's Guardian article about Raquel Rolnik, the UN's special rapporteur whom the Bush administration prevented from doing her job?
Rolnik is not Bachmann's kind of woman. We'll come back to them in a minute. First, a confession about finding myself in a place where, as an admirer of the United States of America, I never expected to be.
Barely a week passes nowadays without my questioning what has been one of the basic principles informing my lifelong world view – namely that, whatever wrong or foolish things are done in the name of the US, to its own citizens or to others, counterveiling forces of intelligence and decency will eventually restore a better equilibrium. That's the 200-year story of the republic.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
BARF is right... these people are delusional... just like the Global Warming Hoaxsters.
Sigh, the stinkin’ Guardian again -— another rant.
“The rabid right has made me doubt my faith in America (**BARF**)”
Good.
Then get the hell out.
Oh
You’re already out.
Well then stay that way.
And stop telling us about it.
Take care of your own country first.
Now THAT was as ignorant, self-serving, and self-righteous a piece of journalist bovine excrement as I’ve read all month.
The rabid LEFT has strengthened my faith in America,
we are going to throw the bums out, one way or another.
Don't let the door hit ya on your way out. Your universal health care can't afford to pay for your band aid.
The paper is worthless. Its opinions are worthless.
I could only manage to read about half the ravings of this condescending pretentious dork. Anyone who buys into the ideas he does, especially AGW, isn’t worth the effort. He’s a perfect example of the people our Marxist-in-Chief is trying to placate.
Once again, proof positive that the scum are deranged. At least this scum is a limey problem.
Pffft.
Their own country is going down the loo and in the process of surrendering itself to muslims, and they attack us.
Amazing.
“Their own country is going down the loo and in the process of surrendering itself to muslims, and they attack us.”
Read what some of the people we now have in charge write.
Conservatives and Christians are WORSE THAN THE TALIBAN, doncha know. They don’t just dislike us, THEY HATE US with a fury that is absolutely mind-boggling.
And if you track back these sources, especially in the media, it almost always seems to come back to radical gays. I wonder why?
Worse yet, they just gave away their sovereignty last night.
I think it's better we're rabid over here. At least we still have a country.
Oh! Ya gotta read the “comments” section! Ex. a);
“America’s rightwing media really have done a great brainwashing job on a very significant minority of people. They’ve been conditioned with a number of trigger switches, usually normal words, the latest being healthcare, which have completely different meanings for them than they do for normal people. These triggers are a cue for extremely strident and often quite mad opinions to be espoused. They are a way of shutting down the mind of the conditioned person to rational thought or discussion. They allow all serious political debate to be rendered so basic that nobody learns anything new, or just completely unintelligible. It’s like trying to talk to a 3 year old child while he is having a tantrum, a state these rightwing zealots enter whenever their buttons are pushed.
What this means for the Obama presidency is very worrying. They rightwing are shutting it down. They are blocking all avenues for bipartisanship and simply biding their time for the big push in 08 when they will have amassed enough hysteria on Obama’s performance to oust him.”
Michael White - the William Hung of leftist, Brit scibblers.
You guys letting the Muslims take over has made me doubt Britan. I’m beginning to think all the Brits with any guts were killed off during the 2 world wars and only cowards survived to bring about the gutless gene pool we see in play today.
Ex. b);
“At the very least Americans are far too smug about their creaking eighteenth century constitution.
Does one even need to mention the bizarre electoral college system, a reflection of travel difficulties two hundred years ago, that means that both Gore and Kerry were deprived the presidency despite having the majority of the popular vote?
Or the fact that the president has to be born in the USA, a equally peculiar stricture rooted in the independence struggle, and one that is entirely irrelevant to the modern world, but which has given rise to the bizarre ‘birther’ movement featured only today in this paper:”
They keep getting better! Ex. c);
“I have my own forum on an American Internet site and most of whom I talk to on a daily basis are in the main dirt poor.Many millions in the southern states of the USA are without medical cover, even for the basic care.
Selfish greed abounds in America and this stems from Bush senior to his illiterate Son, George junior who has raped this once great country until it bled to death in the the Banks and the Wall Street dens of corruption. The mood of the basic American public is one of deep anger and resentment at all that the “few” have done to the “many” of their country.There is talk of insurrection on the sites I visit and this is not ideal chit chat by rational sane people, most have lost much of what they had as a pension through crooked banks and stockbrokers. The media is owned by despicable people like the Murdoch clan and a few other billionaires who pump out their lying filth to the nation and against Obama.It is my fearful feelings that this great country is going to witness civil unrest on a scale that has never been seen since the American civil war”
The UK is no longer a sovereign state. It is now part of the EU.
Michael, stop weeping and whining. Take action. Wash your mouth out with some buckshot.
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