The World Hopes for Its First President

McCain supporters - Please take this article to heart. Yes, the economic crisis is huge, but we need to remember the importance or repairing our international reputation and relations. Whether or not it's true, the world sees McCain as an extension of Bush, and it is not safe for our country to continue down that path. Obama will lead us in the right direction globally, and I hope you can accept the new administration.

Sorry for the previous double entries, I am new to blogging. I would also like to add one more thought. McGuire claims that there is the ???international election??? and the one happening in America, which is much more provincial, about the economy etc. This is only partly true. There is something extraordinary happening in America right now and this cultural impulse has spoken to the rest of the world. I don't think there is a split reality. Obama has unleashed something in many many people around the world. I would describe it as the possibility to create our own future rather than feel determined. (which was getting a little oppressive I would say). It has stimulated much movement, energy, creativity, hope and change. And whether all American???s want to own it or not, it was born in the USA, and is very much alive in there as well as in the world around us. Again, I return to survival instinct.

Sorry for the previous double entries, I am new to blogging. I would also like to add one more thought. McGuire claims that there is the ???international election??? and the one happening in America, which is much more provincial, about the economy etc. This is only partly true. There is something extraordinary happening in America right now and this cultural impulse has spoken to the rest of the world. I don't think there is a split reality. Obama has unleashed something in many many people around the world. I would describe it as the possibility to create our own future rather than feel determined. (which was getting a little oppressive I would say). It has stimulated much movement, energy, creativity, hope and change. And whether all American???s want to own it or not, it was born in the USA, and is very much alive in there as well as in the world around us. Again, I return to survival instinct.

AMERICAN GANDHI?!!! You got to be joking?!!! LMAO! I am not sure which Gandhi your talking about?! M.K. Gandhi was not from a minority group so you must be referring to the Italian Sonia Gandhi. Now that is an accurate comparison actually..

The problem with Obama is a simple one. One association does not a radical make. But in Obama's case, the list of left-wing radical mentors and associates is seemingly endless, (Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi , etc., etc.) with a new revelation practically every day. With that trend, a picture begins to emerge, and that picture is that Obama is as steeped, not in just left-wing political thought, but in radical left-wing economic and race ideology, to the same extent that Pat Robertson was steeped in the ideology of the radical Religious Right. I would not have voted for Pat Robertson for dog catcher, and for similar reasons, I did not vote for Obama.

The comments by "Lightnin" only underscore the need for a change in the direction that Obama wants to take us. Lightnin is full of hate, suspicion, dire threats and all the other bigoted and narrow-minded views which the Bush-Cheney regime has championed for the past 8 years. I can't imagine what it would be like to inhabit a "brain" like the one Lightnin has. As to his comments about the sanctity of the ballot, what about 2000, when more people voted for Gore than for Bush? Or how Florida was stolen from the Democrats by a right-wing Supreme Court? Lightnin' is simply a poor loser; his idea of "democracy" is that only the Republicans should win. And, as a member of the press he so rants against, I have my own ill-feelings - how for much too long Bush had his way without much of any Press scrutiny. He played the Patriotism Card for so long, and so the press was cowed into not criticising him for fear of being labelled unpatriotic. Now, to listen to Lightnin' the Press is to blame for the mess the US is in. Sorry, Lightnin' you can't have it both ways. I would suggest that you shut down your rant machine and maybe open up your brain, just a little.

Two things stand out about this election. One, how low the "democratic" has fallen in morality, two, how the press shamelessly parrots the democrats' lines.
Case in point - One of America's core beliefs is the right to the secret ballot. The democrats totally support the unionists recent and current attempts to ELIMINATE the secret ballot, which would give them "Big Brother" power over their members, allowing intimidation, harassment, and recriminations. Have you heard ANY democrat or "news" reporter speak out against this blatant attempt to curtail freedom in America (or "Rev." Wright, Ayers, Rezko, "Redistributing the Wealth", etc.?) No, and you WON'T! The unions and the democrats are in bed together, along with their press groupies! They HATE freedom, they LOVE only the power to CONTROL. If you vote for Obama, you're voting AGAINST the secret ballot, AGAINST one more of our traditional American freedoms! One step closer to one-party Socialism!

Two things stand out about this election. One, how low the "democratic" has fallen in morality, two, how the press shamelessly parrots the democrats' lines.
Case in point - One of America's core beliefs is the right to the secret ballot. The democrats totally support the unionists recent and current attempts to ELIMINATE the secret ballot, which would give them "Big Brother" power over their members, allowing intimidation, harassment, and recriminations. Have you heard ANY democrat or "news" reporter speak out against this blatant attempt to curtail freedom in America (or "Rev." Wright, Ayers, Rezko, "Redistributing the Wealth", etc.?) No, and you WON'T! The unions and the democrats are in bed together, along with their press groupies! They HATE freedom, they LOVE only the power to CONTROL. If you vote for Obama, you're voting AGAINST the secret ballot, AGAINST one more of our traditional American freedoms! One step closer to one-party Socialism!

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I am an American that has resided in Europe for 16 years. I have yet to meet a european for McCain. This was very interesting but shallow I think in the exploration of why the world is fascinated with Obama. What about: the war in Iraq, going it alone, ignoring the UN, ignororing the Kyoto protocol, generally ingnoring international law. Multiculturalism and the rising of a minority are a fascinating part of america, as her dynamic spirit but is the world a little more in touch with something very basic, out of the Republican cultural box (double think box) that we have been living in for so many years now in America? Something so simple as SURVIVAL INSTINCT? I see my europeans that worried. I feel that worried as a mom of two young girls. Perhaps it is time to talk about the real issues. That is part of unitig and hope. Stephanie

I am an American that has lived in Europe for 16 years. I have yet to meet a european for McCain. This was very interesting but superficial I think on the "why" of the world's fascination and interest. How about the war in iraq, ignoring the UN, ignoring the Kyoto protocal and generally international law? How about the rest of the world having wider vision than the culture that has prevailed in the US- dismal Repbulican doublethink, and basically caring about survival on the planet as in "one of our last hopes". Multiculturalism and a minority rising are part of it, but honestly, I think the world is very worried and perhaps have better access and articulation of their basic survival instinct. This need to be said, and America needs to hear it. Stephanie, Italy

"Outside of the United States, the election played large and transformational: a 21st-century man with whom the whole world can identify versus an old cold-warrior out of synch with the complex political and economic crises of our age."

Why is it the rest of the world can see things so clearly and yet so many American's can't?

What world First President? Nobody should claim to be a world president. In any case, who needs one? What the West conjecture needs not be what the East desires.

Humans are strange and idiosyncratic animals. When you are up, all the praise would be showered on you freely, giving you the credits you never deserve. When you are down, you are no better than a pariah in the eyes of many, and no one would raise the good things you might have done.

This is the Obama and Bush scenario ??? nothing but human???s cruelty and folly! The world has been the greatest stage of elusive deceptions and blind ignorance; it was, it is and it will continue to be.
(Tan Boon Tee)

On his website, Republican strategist Karl Rove writes:

The final Rove & Co. electoral map of the 2008 election cycle points to a 338-200 Barack Obama electoral vote victory over John McCain tomorrow, the largest electoral margin since 1996.


http://rove.com/election

The McCain Campaign:

John McCain has proven himself in this campaign to be an angry low road politician who failed miserably to show himself to be a fair and decent individual, with the stature to rise to the Office of the Presidency. And, as for Palin? What great judgement.

Leading a campaign that (even though major news orgs constantly debunked his ads) almost exclusively resorted to the constant barrage of outright lies, distortions, and the sleaziest of attack ads. Showing himself, instead, to be a little man, he displays a nasty, divisive and confrontational attitude with limited vision and dimension of thinking. He is minimally accomplished as a statesman and, as shown by his own actions, is conspicuously absent of the temperament and the diplomatic and leadership skills necessary to adequately represent and lead this nation in promoting international respect and cooperation on the future world stage.

The United States can do much better than John McCain, On Tuesday, I am betting a majority of the nation will agree.

I feel a little sorry for the right in this election... throughout the last decade when we on the left were frequently told "if you don't like it, leave the country" we at least knew we'd be going out into a world that basically held our same dismal opinions about Bush. If any of the left were as crass as to tell righties the same thing after Obama wins tomorrow, they'd be stuck going out into a world that wouldn't understand, agree, or sympathise with them.

This moronic scumbag Samuel J. Wurzelbacher "Joe the Plumber" had his AZ driver license suspended

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/128323

Wurzelbacher, who lived in Mesa in 2000 and had an Arizona driver's license, had his driver's license suspended by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division on May 4, 2000, following a nonpayment of a court-imposed fine for civil traffic violations, according to court records.

...owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes, according to public records, still owes more than $700 to the Mesa court system.

Records show he was cited for failure to stop at a red light and for failure to provide proof of insurance on Feb. 9, 2000, in a black Dodge truck at the intersection of Dobson and Baseline roads in Mesa.

After failing to pay his original fine of $627.50 issued in March 2000, his license was suspended and the fine was handed over to a collection agency along with a 16 percent surcharge. The now-resident of Holland, Ohio, still owes $727.90 to the Mesa Municipal Court, according to court records.

Hopefully the collection agency will break both of his legs so he'll never be able to walk nor work ever again. This typical Republican scumbag deserves it.