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Dashed Hopes: How 0bama Disappointed the World (NOT THE FUHRER THE GERMANS WERE LOOKING FOR)
Der Speigel ^ | 8/09/2011 | Marc Hujer

Posted on 08/14/2011 12:17:24 PM PDT by Chi-townChief

dpaAs America's first black president, Barack Obama electrified an entire nation. But now that the nation is in crisis, he seems unable to connect with the people. He wanted to change America and restore its reputation in the world. But now his opponents are dictating the country's political course.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhojobapproval; buyersremorse; elections; eurotwitsforkerry; germans; liberals; obama
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And we all know what great judges of leadership characteristics the Germans are.
1 posted on 08/14/2011 12:17:27 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief

Sig !


2 posted on 08/14/2011 12:20:27 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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“He wanted to change America and restore its reputation in the world.”

He accomplished the first but never intended the second. If he did he certainly went about it in a strange way.


3 posted on 08/14/2011 12:21:10 PM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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Another lot of people not happy with that hopenchangey stuff? =.=


4 posted on 08/14/2011 12:21:32 PM PDT by cranked
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5 posted on 08/14/2011 12:22:50 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Get this >>> “The world also had high hopes for a changed America, a country that would be less militaristic than it was under his predecessor, George W. Bush ...”

You have to wonder if they’ve ever heard that old pot and kettle story.


6 posted on 08/14/2011 12:22:50 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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Barack Obama electrified an entire nation.

Yeah, like this:


7 posted on 08/14/2011 12:29:32 PM PDT by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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Whatever happened to key ideas of changing our image in the world, such as closing Gitmo? The liberals lectured us that the mere existence of Gitmo helped recruit terrorists.

So why has a good Democrat president not closed Gitmo?

Well, they claim they have reached out to the Arab/Muslim world and we’re supposed to be loved there now because of this outreach. And he praised the Arab spring revolution in Egypt.


8 posted on 08/14/2011 12:30:13 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Not voting for Obama would have been cynical, timid and un-American.

It's good that we have the Germans to tell us what is American!

9 posted on 08/14/2011 12:30:24 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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[Jeremiah Wright] preached against the racism which still hasn't been eradicated in America. Wright is no longer in touch with Obama, but he continues to preach throughout the country, and he likes to focus on the parable of the lost sheep in Luke 15:3-7

A European Jerry Wright fan. No surprise -- they're both America-despising socialists.

10 posted on 08/14/2011 12:34:46 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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(NOT THE FUHRER THE GERMANS WERE LOOKING FOR)

I don't get that from the article. It's more like "Poor Obama! He's tried everything, been so nice, he's thoughtful, contemplative and humble - look where all that got him?!?!"

11 posted on 08/14/2011 12:35:38 PM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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Another European with a man crush heard from.

... he is no longer the president who determines the issues and sets the tone of the debate, but a small, radicalized group of unashamedly amateur politicians who have declared the government to be their enemy

Obama is the original small,amateur, radical politician. The teapartiers can't hope to compare.

12 posted on 08/14/2011 12:41:01 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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It is no longer the president who determines the issues and sets the tone of the debate, but a small, radicalized group of unashamedly amateur politicians who have declared the government to be their enemy.

Sound historically familiar?


13 posted on 08/14/2011 12:44:49 PM PDT by tflabo ( to have been selected)
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Barack Obama electrified an entire nation”

Good grief.

I couldn’t read further. He won, and won handily...but he still only got 53%. Far from electrifying an entire nation.

All I can say, is if you are German, or European, and you are reading this, is that I think you Europeans are truly idiots. Socialism is for fools. And you could count the non-socialists in Europe on one hand.


14 posted on 08/14/2011 12:51:11 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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Und ze had such high hopes for ze new Fuhrer ...


15 posted on 08/14/2011 12:53:05 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Are Americans any better? Look at the POS we have elected, and see my tagline.


16 posted on 08/14/2011 12:57:54 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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...and we all know what great judges of leadership characteristics the Germans are (great comment worth restating).

But now his opponents are dictating the country's political course. It's called F-A-I-L !

17 posted on 08/14/2011 12:58:37 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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But now his opponents are dictating the country's political course.

We should be so blessed and fortunate; 2012 objective!

18 posted on 08/14/2011 1:10:55 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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The world also had high hopes for a changed America, a country that would be less militaristic than it was under his predecessor, George W. Bush

LOL! Suckers!


19 posted on 08/14/2011 1:11:16 PM PDT by Roninf5-1
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Wow! I didn't realize that Der Speigel accepted articles from patients in the German mental institutions!
20 posted on 08/14/2011 1:14:02 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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