The World Hopes for Its First President

When saying "Europe is thrilled by.. the end of George Bush", one must consider that GW was never really the leader of the US. He was a puppet president controlled by Cheney and the Neocons of the New GOP (aka The Rovians). I feel bad for GW but hope the best for him as he retires to his ranch - he's sure to go down in history as leader of the worst administration this country has ever seen.

ABC Reports that in a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said her First Amendment rights are threatened by reporters suggesting she is engaging in a negative campaigning against Barack Obama.

Palin told WMAL-AM that for reporters or columnists to suggest that she is going negative constitutes an attack on her free speech rights under the Constitution, saying -If the media convince enough voters that this is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.-


If I hadnt heard her butcher the Constitution numerous times already, I might not have believed it!

I came home to the USA at the age of 12, after 3 years in an (American Army run) integrated grammar school. I felt like an "real" American and loved my country without question or afterthought, but from that time forward I have been dismayed and confused by how so many of my countrymen listened to, followed and even elected such misguided, shortsighted leaders.

Having lived abroad as a child (indirectly on the orders of the then Commander in Chief) in Japan and Europe, I knew and know that common Japanese people are people. Period. German people and Swiss and Austrian and Italian and French and Romanian and Black American people are people. Period. I knew that because I'd seen them, met them, lived together with some of them and gone to school with others. I had a clear unquestioned certainty about this already as a child, and I still have that certainty as an adult.

America is special - exceptional - and has a lot to offer, to teach--by example--to other countries. However, it's foreign policies are all too often so shortsighted or misguided that one wonders if those in charge of making and implementing America's foreign policy even really have as their goal to promote the long term interests of the country. The foreign "friends" America has sometimes supported, or even helped to power, have all too often abused (and robbed) their own people such that now 5 or 10 or 40 years later those abused, tortured and oppressed peoples hate America and sometimes have even accepted new governments even worse than the ones America supported which are aggressively anti-American--at least on that one point they have the full support of their people.

As an American, I deeply hope that Obama's having to some extent grown up abroad or in culturally mixed surroundings will have had some positive lasting effect on him. I deeply hope that if he is elected, his foreign policies and their implementation will be build on pursuing the longterm best interests of America--which I think will not conflict with the long term interests of the various foreign peoples they affect. Respect, real respect, for other nations and their peoples is probably what so many abroad are hoping for from Obama. That respect is not dangerous for the USA; it is rather a prerequisite for long security, peace and prosperity. And it's not too much for all those foreigners to ask for either!

Its not a matter of being against war. Other countries are made up of people, just like your country. Its like being against fighting. Ok, but if you telegraph that you are a wimp, you will always end up surrounded by bullies. Saying that all people want peace and love ignorant. You can't stereotype people that way. There is no "The People' there is only many individual people and they define their wants and desires differently. When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a permanent threat to the Middle East that will soon be liberated, I am sure in his mind he was thinking about peace for his people.

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What is most troubling in todays political climate is the promotion of hatred as a philosophy. The emergence of an ultraconservative dogma relies increasingly on the encouragement of mass hostility aimed at one group in particular - Americans with progressive political views. Liberals are spoken of with the kind of dripping contempt and virulent hostility that used to be associated with racism and sectarian religious strife. Liberals are viewed not as fellow Americans citizens concerned with the future of their country, but as ideological enemies that need to be destroyed - and eaten if possible. This view is fundamentally anti-American.

This right-wing sect manifests a complete lack of empathy toward other Americans whom it defines as its ideological enemies. Its core beliefs are absolutely impervious to reason and are unleashing ugly and violent impulses. What makes their zeal so dangerous for our country is their willingness to do serious damage to our precious American Democracy in their quest for absolute power.

-The Assault on Reason (2007)

SOUND FAMILIAR? IT DOES TO ME AND I AM SICK OF IT. IF YOU ARE TOO, VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ???08

Choose the president based on his qualifications. The world prefers Obama based on an image created which does not reflect reality. He is not going to put them first, the US will still be his main concern. Obama necessarily will disappoint them and his honey moon with the world will be over a few months after his is president. BUT we will be stuck with this man for for years! He has no experience as a leader or executive. We have no reason to believe he has developed the skill to lead the several hundred government agencies and departments. He will have a smarter BUSH. Bush's only experience came as governor of Texas the weakest governor in the union. (the governor of Texas basically cuts ribbons)

Choose the president based on his qualifications. The world prefers Obama based on an image created which does not reflect reality. He is not going to put them first, the US will still be his main concern. Obama necessarily will disappoint them and his honey moon with the world will be over a few months after his is president. BUT we will be stuck with this man for for years! He has no experience as a leader or executive. We have no reason to believe he has developed the skill to lead the several hundred government agencies and departments. He will have a smarter BUSH. Bush's only experience came as governor of Texas the weakest governor in the union. (the governor of Texas basically cuts ribbons)

For those who

If this is the world's hope, Lord help us!

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If the race were indeed about character, McCain would loose too.
He's got his turbid past and can't hide it. In personal lfe, and in politics too.