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  • Posted By: akhajawall @ 07/19/2008 12:55:41 PM

    Dear American Citizens and the Press

    As a concerned citizen, I consider it is my duty to bring following message to you all.

    "We the citizens of the United States of America have the ultimate responsibility to elect the " Right Candidate" to lead our nation, out of our huge present and future internal and external challenges as well as opportunities. This is to prevent depression and isolation in-spite of being the only superpower in the world morally, democratically, economically, and militarily.

    We need to consider the "critical qualities and characteristics" of our presumptive presidential nominees at the time we vote.

    In my personal and professional opinion the critical considerations are as under:


    1. Calm, cool, and collected " temper " [ Presidential Temperament ].
    2. Sound and sustained "Judgment and Caliber".
    3. "Thought-fullness and togetherness" of purpose and positions.
    4. Minimum "ex-poser and exploitation" around "Washington and Washington insiders".
    5. Renewed " Vigor and Vision " for our Greatgrand Nation.
    6. Foreign policy based on " American Values, Virtuous, Vastness".

    Stay informed, stay involved, and stay engaged. Do not allow some partisan media, pundits, pollsters, and perpetual political opinion makers effect your vote in the wrong direction.

    Don't be effected and duped by "Psychological Terrorism" that is afflicted upon you all the time.

    Long live U.S.A and its diverse but democratic people.

    Col. A.M. Khajawall [Ret] MD., ABFM., ABDA.
    Chief Consultant: World Wide Porfessional Consultants[WWPC]
    Colonel, USAR/MC Combat Stress Control[Ret], Disabled American Veteran and Freedom team.
    Consultant Psychiatrist: CA State, Medical Board of California, and Los Angeles Mental Health Department
    Address: 7642 Eaglehelm Court Las Vegas NV 89123

    • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 07/23/2008 12:00:40 AM

      Col A.M. Khajawall Ret. MD., ABFM, ABDA

      Where were you educated? Anyhow, you ought to know the difference in meaning between
      'effect/effected' and 'affect/affected'. And 'afflicted' should have read 'inflicted.' It beats me how you can be a consultant psychiatrist in California with your poor grasp of English.

  • Posted By: neos @ 07/22/2008 9:19:52 PM

    As someone who spent years stationed overseas, I am hopeful that we will at long last put a president in office of whom we can be proud and who will be respected abroad. I worked with a multinational crew, mainly Brits, Germans, and italians, and i cringed everytime our current chuckle-headed president opened his big bazoo. My colleagues were considerate enough to allow that not all Americans were Bush league, but were quick to point out that evidentally a majority were since we kept voting this yahoo into the White House. We are now isolated within the world community. Hopefully we will this time vote for a president who will restore our reputation and leadership.

  • Posted By: 1sky7 @ 07/22/2008 9:19:26 PM

    this normal happiness through Obama visit to Afghanistan and Iraq and this human victory which Obama asked to do against terrorism will made new world union in this war-
    this normal human vision meaning jump up the old big mistake and came more strong toward the small details between the tow candidates in presidential election
    so today can not like yesterday and old yesterday can not be hindrance for the future and in this circumstance the old validity not correct choices for future so we can say hello Obama as president

  • Posted By: lillea @ 07/22/2008 4:14:12 PM

    Check out the pictures on this website: http://obamagirl.com/
    When I was in my twenties....men Obama's age were called "dirty old men."

    • Posted By: Isabella38 @ 07/22/2008 8:55:44 PM

      McCain was in his forties when he married a twenty something Cindy. So I suppose that would make him a pervert, huh?

  • Posted By: nomadnotmad @ 07/22/2008 8:28:05 PM

    TYPO It is better to dream THAN be certain that hell awaits. (not AND) nomadnotmad

  • Posted By: nomadnotmad @ 07/22/2008 8:25:39 PM

    Typo correction: It is better to dream THAN be certain that hell awaits. (nomadnotmad 7:48PM)

  • Posted By: nomadnotmad @ 07/22/2008 7:48:27 PM

    The article by Dominique Moisi was inspiring. "You have become like a barometer of our relative decline. Yet for the first time in modern French history, we no longer feel we need to oppose you in order to assert our identity." Wouldn't it be modern if every country, including America had these sentiments. Whether a country is big or small, declining or rising what would it be like if each country could assert its identity, its needs, its agenda without cutting down another? It is better to dream and be certain that hell awaits.

  • Posted By: jrlysak @ 07/22/2008 7:47:10 PM

    I'm a 61 yo who has a number of issues with Mr. Obama, i.e. experience, but can not vote for any candidate who cannot call themselves an "American" without an ethnic/racial caveat.

  • Posted By: putoff @ 07/22/2008 1:27:07 PM

    People in Europe probably know more about Obama and McCain than the Average American. They read and they have a much higher educational level. In England, for example, student benefits are paid until age 25, which allows most people to finish law or graduate school. Under Ronal Reagan, Social Security Law was changed to terminate Student Benefits at age 18 instead of at age 22. As a consequence, many people voting in America are, indeed, low information voters. In addition to that handicap, many voters refuse to accept that America is one nation among many and that we must work with other nations of the world to ensure our own security. We have a lot to do to foster a clearer understanding among American voters of just what is at stake in this election. We can elect McCain, who is virtually illiterate. Or we can elect Obama, a man who has demonstrated throughout his life a commitment to learning, understanding and making a better world. For me, I am going with the man with proven intelligence. Obama was always at the top of his class. McCain was always at the bottom. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to discern that Obama is a much safer choice for POTUS.

    • Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 07/22/2008 6:44:47 PM

      Smart and wise are not the same thing. I prefer the more ethical candidate who has eschewed earmarks and actually worked across party lines. Obama has requested earmarks not only for those who have raised money for his campaign but for his own wife's employer!!!

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 07/22/2008 2:40:39 PM

      You've completely underestimated the American public.

  • Posted By: leoca77 @ 07/22/2008 1:46:07 PM

    I am not sure about Obama just because of the fact his statements keep on chaging on lots of issue. I am not an American as a Canadian i do take interest in US politics as it impacts us here. But i still would believe in Obama more bacause Mr. Mccain belongs to people who has not only helped destroy US economy but rest of the world.

    • Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 07/22/2008 6:41:58 PM

      Obama owes more people than McCain does. He is a Chicago trained pay to play politician. Here's an example.

      In a campaign influenced by Walmart, instead of backing the pro-labor candidate, Obama backed a "Walmart tool."

      There was little surprising about Obama's endorsement given his self-interested allegiances to the politically powerful City Hall regime of Chicago's Mayor Daley, with whom Obama shares the same big money campaign super-consultant (David Axlerod) and numerous big money sponsors.

      For the first time Mayor Daley had vetoed an ordinance by his normally obedient City Council, a measure widely supported by citizens, community organizations, and labor unions in Chicago's black, Latino, and working-class wards, and he did not want the council to bring the measure up again. It was originally passed by the council under pressure from a remarkable grassroots campaign, and would have required giant retail corporations like Wal-Mart, Target, Lowes, and Home Depot to pay workers a modest minimum wage of ten dollars an hour by 2010.

      Wal-Mart and Target announced that they were putting a number of "big box" retail developments on hold in Chicago, and launched a preemptive public relations strike, threatening to disinvest in the city unless a "favorable business climate" was restored. Daley made a special point of wrapping his veto in the flag of racial justice, claiming it was required to permit the flowering of economic development in the city's abandoned ghetto neighborhoods.

      Pat Dowell, the recipient of significant support from the Service Employees' International Union (SEIU), was running against Tillman, and Dowell had strongly criticized Tillman for siding with Daley and Wal-Mart.

      Obama needed the support of the powerful campaign finance magnet Daley, and endorsed Tillman, over labor-backed Dowell.

      Obama's wife Michelle then received $51,200 in 2006 for attending a few board meetings of TreeHouse Foods, a giant firm that relied heavily on its close business relationship with Wal-Mart. The granting of high-pay/do-little board posts to the spouses of politicians is a longstanding tool of the "old," corporate-dominated politics that Senator Obama claims to reject. This is not like Clinton's placement on the board of Walmart as the result of an effort to address sex discrimination in Walmart's employment practices.



      Mrs. Obama resigned from her position with TreeHouse in the summer of 2007, citing "increased demands on her time" in connection with her husband's presidential campaign.

    • Posted By: catspaw @ 07/22/2008 3:42:38 PM

      Thank you for your input leoca77, we do apprieciate it.

      I am listening to all and trying to understand were everyone outside our country is seeing were our country needs to go in the next 4 yrs and who will be the best to take us there. So far, Senetor Obama is the one who is showing he has the ability and will power to take the US back to where She needs to be.

  • Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 07/22/2008 3:53:46 PM

    So, do you think the world realizes that Obama used cocaine for years? Apparently Newsweek didn't think this was an important question to ask anyone they interviewed for this article.

    • Posted By: Jack999 @ 07/22/2008 5:17:28 PM

      "The GREATNESS of a NATION is measure on how well it's Citizen trreats his Animals" Mathma Gandhi

    • Posted By: HopeinAmerica @ 07/22/2008 4:41:11 PM

      The World reads, they know very many things. The World also realises that the leader of the Republican party has been clean for some time.

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 07/22/2008 4:26:07 PM

    Obama is very PRESIDENTIAL in world views,His qualities of leadership speaks well for Americans,call him elitist,egoist,if you like and jealous,that what American should be when he meet world leaders,in Suit and tie,Next day he wears T-shirt and track pant playing basketball or just going Gym side by side with ordinary citizens just like all of usTHIS what a USA president be should BE and always BE.

  • Posted By: Tx_longbow @ 07/22/2008 4:07:30 PM

    This is a great set of articles just because it allows other countries to voice their views of America. What is disipointing are the Republican racest responces. Pearsoncrz, yopu have got to be one of the best hired racests I have seen. You fille up the first page with you selfcentered BS.

  • Posted By: abadreview @ 07/22/2008 10:27:26 AM

    citron16...is that 16 your age? It matters very much what our allies think pal. You see, if we were to get into a major conflict with say, Iran, we would need some pretty serious support from our allies or we would be smacked around all over the desert. Without our allies we wouldn't have won WWII, do your homework before you post ignorant comments. I suggest you take some college level history courses, preferably ones that aren't taught by right wing imperialists. Comparing Obama to Kerry is the biggest mischaracterization you could possibly make, it's like comparing JFK to Dukakis. We need our allies support now more than ever, or we will NEVER win the war against Al-Qaeda. The world wants Obama, and thankfully, judging by the enormous movement Obama has created, so does America.

    • Posted By: HopeinAmerica @ 07/22/2008 3:31:55 PM

      McCain says he wants to secure America but a supports a PROFITABLE war as opposed to a war to keep America safe. Al-Qaida operates in the Pakstan border ares, McCain and Bush kept their eyes off the ball their to pursue a profitable war in Iraq where contracts for the oil majors were. There are no profitable contracts pursueing Al-Quida and keeping Americ safe.
      Senator Obama just wants a safe America with respect worldwide which can do business anywhere.

    • Posted By: catspaw @ 07/22/2008 2:52:36 PM

      Bravo, Bravo!!!!, Maybe ancient history may help as well citron, learn about how the Greeks and, Romans took over the world and the simple man took it back. As well as the last 200 years of our planet.

  • Posted By: 4carol @ 07/22/2008 1:09:21 PM

    Flamingo, you've been flying high, babe!!
    Of course, people care what Britan and Europe might think about our candidates; if it wasn't for Bush, we wouldn't be so looked down upon around the world as we are now. Open your eyes, bird!!

    • Posted By: flamingo123 @ 07/22/2008 3:21:59 PM

      Hey Carol, would you be saying the same thing if the world has positive image of McCain? I bet you will be the first one to shout "Who cares what the world think of McCain." You are nothing but a hypocrite, brainwashed bitch!!!!!

  • Posted By: OH-IO for Obama @ 07/22/2008 3:08:51 PM

    Thanks for this article Newsweek, it is good for those of us in the continental "bubble" to know what other nations are thinking about our choices for President.
    GO Obama!!!

  • Posted By: citron16 @ 07/22/2008 1:02:46 PM

    After one trip to Iraq and Afghanistan Barak Hussein Obama is a foreign policy 'expert'.

    Is this the best the Democrats can come up with??

    • Posted By: catspaw @ 07/22/2008 3:07:06 PM

      At least he took an Olive Branch w/ him and not a Boom like McCain!

  • Posted By: DaveCB @ 07/22/2008 11:36:05 AM

    Does the 29% of America still believing that W still is the best thing since sliced bread read these worldly opinions while recognizing how deeply they are despised for their right-wing, envangelical-laced mishandling?

    DaveCB, Bronx, NY

    • Posted By: catspaw @ 07/22/2008 3:00:27 PM

      Hard to believe, isn't it?

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 07/22/2008 2:51:11 PM

      What does W have to do with it? Plenty of people who do not support Bush are skeptical about Obama

  • Posted By: whipple @ 07/22/2008 12:32:19 PM

    Some real haters and racist folk posting on here. Very sad that we have people like this in America. The world would be so much better without such people. Senator is not anti-American and if anyone thinks that, they must not be very educated.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 07/22/2008 2:35:15 PM

      The racist comment is getting really old, and, rightfully so, losing credibility. This article is shameless and subjective Obama propaganda

  • Posted By: putoff @ 07/22/2008 12:36:23 PM

    This is all very interesting and clearly shows that, in addition to the enormous problems to be solved in America, there are multiple world issues that the next American President must be able to understand and address. Obama clearly is the better candidate. The world views expressed in this article highlight the fact that the next POTUS cannot be a man whose only world view is war. This article clearly shows that the next POTUS must be enormously intelligent. Even in the mind of the most imaginative Republican, McCain does not meet the qualification requirements to become POTUS. McCain, because he has always been an intellectual under-achiever and is now just too old, cannot cut the muster required from the next POTUS. If this article is worth anything, it is worth the challenge it offers in assessing the fact that our president must understand our needs first, but must be able to understand our needs and challenges in the context of a world community that requires peaceful cooperation. McCain is absolutely and unequivocally unqualified to be President. Who among us would want McCain's unscreened words uttered on our behalf in a time of peace or crisis? McCain claims to have bona fide expertise in foreign policy, but he demonstrates, every time he opens his mouth, that he does not know what he is talking about. He also is an unabashed flip flopper. He doesn't know the meaning of straight talk and it is an absolute disgrace that the press does not hold him to a higher standard than one that would be applied to a middle schooler running in a mock presidential election.

    • Posted By: taubekat @ 07/22/2008 2:31:51 PM

      Well put...putoff. Unify the people of America (as best you can) and then the world (as best you can). We will vote when the time comes and deal with the outcome of the election (as best as we can). My vote is for Obama.

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