...or else...
Vote for the Messiah if you know what's good for you...
Posted on 09/10/2008 7:19:11 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Re: Obama, the World's President [Mark Steyn]
Kathryn, having decided to elect him President and Community Organizer-in-Chief, the World will not be happy if those hopelessly parochial Yank knuckledraggers decline to endorse the World's decision as to who should govern them and their ghastly backwater. Already, there are awful mutterings from The Guardian:
The World's Verdict Will Be Harsh If The US Rejects The Man It Yearns For
You mean economic sanctions? Expulsion from the Olympics? Moving the Oscars to Belgium? Jonathan Freedland isn't spelling it out but he's not happy:
But what of the rest of the world? This is the reaction I fear most. For Obama has stirred an excitement around the globe unmatched by any American politician in living memory. Polling in Germany, France, Britain and Russia shows that Obama would win by whopping majorities, with the pattern repeated in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. If November 4 were a global ballot, Obama would win it handsomely...
If Americans choose McCain, they will be turning their back on the rest of the world, choosing to show us four more years of the Bush-Cheney finger. And I predict a deeply unpleasant shift... Suddenly Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is with not only one ruling clique, but Americans themselves. For it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start - a fresh start the world is yearning for...
For America to make a decision as grave as this one - while the planet boils and with the US fighting two wars - on the trivial basis that a hockey mom is likable and seems down to earth, would be to convey a lack of seriousness, a fleeing from reality, that does indeed suggest a nation in, to quote Weisberg, "historical decline".
British reports on the presidential campaign are weirdly reminiscent of coverage of pre-independence elections in ramshackle parts of Africa where the Colonial Office has picked out the chap it wants for Prime Minister six months earlier only to discover at the last minute that the wretched natives are too dim to go along with it. If you think Iraq isn't ready for democracy, it's apparently years ahead of America.
As for the planet boiling, wait till November 5th.
Hussein is the RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME!!!
Two thumbs up! [Mark Steyn]
Senator Obama may talk about "restoring America's reputation", but Governor Palin is actually doing it. After the deplorably emolient multilateralist Bush second term, the world's sophisticates haven't been this pumped about America the halfwit hyperpower since the heady heyday of the "swaggering cowboy moron" of the early 21st century. All over the world, condescending cosmpolitans are putting their backs out bending down to paste "ALASKA" over the third word in their hilarious "SOMEWHERE IN TEXAS A VILLAGE IS MISSING AN IDIOT" bumper stickers.
From the CBC up north (Canadians' tax dollars at work), Heather Mallick:
She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn't already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America's name inside and outside its borders... Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are... the stolidly Republican ladies branch of Citizens for a Tackier America... rural, loud, proudly unlettered (like Bush himself)... Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade's woman... Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the "pramface"...
In The Guardian, Linda Grant is more circumspect:
The conviction by the left that the right is stupid is one of the defining and least attractive characteristics of contemporary politics. Assuming that anyone who disagrees with you is too dim to get your point is not itself a particularly brainy way to win others over...
But hey, why let that stop you, Linda?
Were I an East Coast Democrat, which is the only kind of American I can ever imagine being, I would have no objection to small-town Republicans - to their church-going and their hunting rifles and their flag-decked porches and their meatloaf with gravy, and their lemon chiffon cake. I could admire their intimacy with the wide prairie and the vast sky.
The problem is that when they're running the whole country, they want to take away abortion rights, drill for oil in Alaska (a Palin policy), ignore climate change, and start unwinnable wars. With the small-town Republican mindset in charge, the rest of America and the rest of the world is forced to live by small-town values, which aren't much help when you're trying to decide what, if anything, can be done about Iranian nuclear ambitions or more humbly, workplace date rape.
Ha! Under the lash of Sarah Palin, even the moose are being lined up for workplace date rape.
Source:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzRiNGFjMzFmZTA4NWMzMjVhNTg0MTgxNTZhNzhkMzI=
An Obama is what we will get if we don’t stop this consolidation of the world governments into one Global community under something like the UN.
Moose Blarney [Mark Steyn]
Our pal Jay Nordlinger was on Irish radio yesterday, and several callers objected to Sarah Palin on the following grounds:
The woman shoots moose, as did Teddy Roosevelt, a long time ago. Only in TR’s day, there were many more moose — Sarah endangers a species.
Absolutely backwards, but an interesting example of how the progressive mind prefers to obsess on entirely fictional crises. There were far fewer moose in Teddy's day. Today there are more moose than a century ago, in Alaska, Canada, New England. In New Hampshire in the mid-19th century there were fewer than 15 in the whole state. Now NH sees more than 250 killed every year just in highway collisions - before Sarah even has a chance to load. We are awash in moose. We have a moose surplus.
And as you'd expect me to add, being NR's in-house demography bore, on present population trends the Italians, Germans and Spaniards will be extinct long before the moose. But no Irish radio listeners seem to be worried about them.
(I wonder if there's a Bog Trotters 4 Bog Trotters* lobby group over there.)
(*Don't bother with the "Racist!" emails. I'm Irish.)
O'Bama Watch [Mark Steyn]
Re the moose blarney, several readers from the Emerald Isle have weighed in:
I'm a political consultant based here in Ireland, and I can tell you that this country is absolutely brainwashed. I don't think Americans have any idea how much the European media is in the tank for Obama, and nor do I think they realise how much this has to do with a rancid anti-Americanism that pervades all Mainstream coverage of international affairs in Europe.
I had high hopes at one stage that John McCain might get a fair shake here in Ireland - he's visited a few times, and been well received - but once he got the nomination, and once he nominated Palin, our media started to paint him as satan. When Obama says he'll "restore America's reputation" what it really means is that people who hate America will be delighted by his election. Why so many Americans don't see it that way astounds me.
And on an etymological note:
As an Irishman myself I can tell you that the word "moose" over here is a colloquialism generally used to refer to women who are not particularly gifted in the beauty department. On that basis the moose population of Ireland is thriving......
In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so ...moosey?
I bet if we told Nobama he can be the “Supreme community organizer” for the UN he would drop out of the race and be as happy as a pig in shit, w/o lipstick.
Vote for the Messiah if you know what's good for you...
What are you going to do? Show us your teeth? Export your food to the USA? Withdraw your ambassadors and close your embassy?
As I said on another thread: The world wants Obama to win for the same reason that the rest of the NFL is secretly happy that Tom Brady is out for the rest of the season...
Message tot he Guardian and the World,
If you don’t like it, come and get us.
They all can see he is a dud and and easy pushover...just what they want!
Moving the Oscars to Belgium? Yeeeeeessssssss!
The US is not fighting 2 wars. We are fighting 1 war on 2 fronts. The war against Islamo-fascism. A war that will not be won by the next administration or the next or the next. But indeed a war that must be won.
But that one paragraph beats every other political screed put out this week.
In Dublin's fair city
Where girls are so pretty
My Molly stands out
'Cause she weighs 18 stone
I don't mind her fat butt
It's not only that, but
She's cock-eyed and muscle-bound
Mol-ly Maaaa-lone.
-- Allan Sherman, c. 1965
Foreign leftists like the Guardian guy, who want America to go socialist like them, are among America's enemies. They are friends of individual Americans, perhaps, and like their visits, but they hate the traditional America, its religion, freedom and the independence of its people. They want us to be miserable like them, and Obama would guarantee it. They want us to be submissive and weak in foreign affairs, like they are, and Obama would guarantee that.
Well, tough luck, buddy. Good luck with that dying nation you created. We'd like to keep ours.
Another point. Doesn’ the secretary general of the UN have to come from a third world country? Isn’t Kenya and Indonesia part of the third world? Hussein has his calling!
RF,
So, I would gather that with the elevation of Gov. Sarah Palin to the office of the VPOTUS we are successfully widening our strategic advantage by choosing a leader from Alaska.
In other words we are bringing down a new “Cold War” from Alaska. The liberals are screaming bloody murder because, Mrs.Palin threatens to end “world pizza” by expanding “The Moosile Gap”
DrMike
Well then let him run for U.N grand pooh bah.
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