The World Hopes for Its First President

O is not the savior of the world..hate to break it to you but the good news is Jesus still is......
wide is the road that leads to destruction and narrow is the way that leads to everlasting life...as for me and my houswe we will serve the Lord!!!
Some of you may not realise that it was CLINTON that caused the economical plight we are in thats right ..he did away with the law that prevented sharks from gambeling with your money...so unloke some of you may like to blame this on Bush No it was the Dems fault.
So waht about O. O by the way stands for zero..cause thats how nuch experienc O has....180 day is congress and all he managed to do was vote present 90% of the time and far left the rest of the time...in fact he is so far left that he voted 4 times that it is OK to deprive an infant from a botched abortion from healt care..last time I looked at the constituation it said that ALL me have the right to LIFE...thats ALL not some..not those we deam worthy..not those that we think are worthy...thats ALL///why on earth do you think our forfathers wrote that? That was the very stance that freed the slaves....Life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness..but the dems want to twist it around and they think the pursuit of happiness (on my dollar) is what comes first...No LIFE comes first...And heres the thing..I can't believe that he is a Christian..I don't think the man knows what a christian is after all look at what he called church and who he called Rev. for 20 years..someone who preached'"hate whitey" does that sound like a Christain preacher? sounds more like an Islamic school for terrorists! America you are being dubbed by the far left and by hollywood and by extremesists...just where has he gotten all his money from...a lot of his money is coming form the middle east but does the news report on that NOOOOO they would rather report about Palins cloths..Hmmm!! And what did the judge seal his birth cert..whay is it not out on public dispaly like Mccaisn and why are his health records not out on display..could it be because he can't prove he had been immunized in the US and that his health records would prove he was not born in the US... I fine this all very fishy..remember terrorists blend in they try to invoke trust..they are patient,,,,,,,look at the scientist they just cought in Ca last year..he was married to an American, he worked with American scientific secretes for 20 years and for 20 years he was swlling these formulas to China...and we just found out.........now I am not saying that O is a secret agent of anything like that but if we are not being given the documents that we ask for..If there is a shadow of doubt..then why take a chance with the highest office of our land.......if you want a true hero, a tue American, A man of honor...then vote Mccain

What WE did "right" to become a world leader was to LEAD THE WORLD, not continue to beat it with a stick. If you can't understand that the last eight years and the illegal war in Iraq have done serious harm to our reputation and moral authority abroad, do me a favor - STAY HOME TOMORROW.

The fact that other nations are interested in our politics is a result (as the article makes clear) of the fact that what happens in American politics effects the every-day lives of people around the globe. That Obama is a wise enough leader to recognize this fact and to remember that America is always strongest when she is surrounded by allies (who we have lost as a result of the Bush doctrine) is not a weakness. Working WITH one's allies to tackle global problems like global warming, terrorism, poverty, trade, etc. is not pandering or seeking other nations' approval. It is LEADING, as America was once ready and able to do, with a steady hand, clear moral vision (not tied to nut-job far-right conservative Christianity) and the weight of the world's respect behind us. If we keep going the way we are now - bankrupting our country and our moral authority - you will see another nation, like China, come to world dominance.

Since when did it become a sign of weakness to lead? Stop with the isolationist nonsense. It has been shown time and again throughout history to be the wrong path for America and the world.

Oh boy, now the Republican right has to go and drag up Jimmy Carter to try to score some points (Travis716 calling him "arguably" the worst president in US history). It was,without a doubt, a troubled presidency, but let's look at how far ahead Carter was on many issues: 1) he brokered the Israeli-Egyptian Camp David 1979 peace agreement which still stands today as a cornerstone of any hope for future peace in the Mideast; 2) Carter made the case of Andrei Sakharov a public one. The Realpolitik rightwingers like Nixon and Kissinger stayed silent about the man who was a champion of human rights in then-communist Soviet Union, but Carter was unafraid to speak out about Sakharov. 8 years later, Sakharov was finally freed from internal exile by Gorbachev). 3) Carter took on "big oil" and sought to use their huge profits to push the US car industry to build more fuel efficient cars and encourage Americans to think about fuel efficiency. Nobody listened to him then, and what a shame, because our car industry has fallen decades behind the Germans and Japanese in well-engineered fuel-efficent automotive technology. Even with a low dollar, Detroit can't compete internationally with its lousy products. Under Carter, Detroit had started to make some progress, but then came Reagan, and the subject of fuel-efficient cars was out the window. Sorry, Travis716, but for the record, the worst president in US history is Bush, and not the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter.

It's nice that much of the rest of the world supports my choice for President, Obama, but it is essentially irrelevant.

One does tend to wonder why Europeans continue to call slavery "America's original sin," as if their countries never practiced or supported slavery. Slavery didn't originate in the U.S., nor was it practiced any more brutally here than in other countries. European slave traders worked through Arabs and Africans to gather the slaves to ship elsewhere. These same countries now try to place all the onus on the U.S.

Oh get over this whole "world" president concept will ya? Trust american journalists to think they own this universe - idiots.

God help us if Barack wins!!! That's all I can say....... Americans sometimes have no clue whatsoever about so many things. We are so ethnocentric that we totally ignore world news and events. We shrug off anything not having to do with the USA. If this man wins, the world will know they can spit on us and walk all over us like a rug, because he's a spineless, wimp with no experience at all. He thinks talking he can win over all those that would die to see our thoats cut. He thinks his cheap blahblahblah can have to same affect overseas as it did here with the vast majority of ignoramuses. Poor Americans!!! They have SO very much to learn!

The fact that all these foreign correspondents and other nations are so consumed with "The Messiah" only convinces me that my choice of John McCain for President is correct. I have never understood the left's need to pander or cow-tow to every other nation's whim, seeking their approval like some star-struck adolescent. These people think it's in vogue to be "one" with foreign nations, believing somehow that they possess the wisdom or knowledge that we somehow don't, and who continually play the apologist or appeaser, when dealing with any other nation. Let???s not forget that WE are the world leader. WE must have done something right to get to that status. WE are the country that most want to come to. It is OUR economy that, if we should fail, will have disastrous results for the rest of the world. Why, in God's name, would anyone want us to be more like any other nation, than who we are? Should we NOT be the world's leader? Who would you rather take that slot? China? The fact that these other nations are so enamored with Obama is because they know that he will position this country so that it falls more in line with how these other countries think we should be, rather than what???s best for us. That will only weaken this country. Anyone who believes it???s in our best interest to give up that which has made us who and what we are, needs to pick your favorite foreign country and apply for citizenship. The one nice thing about the USA is that no one will ever force you to stay here; the door swings both ways.

"Just give me one supported case where our economy has seen any significant growth from "the bottom up?" How ignorant of economics such a principle is. "

Yeah, you are probably right. After all, what would those Nobel-winning economists know about whether Obama's plan would work and would help the middle class in this country. What would the Republicans who have come out in favor of his economic policies know.

You would know best, brj99. You must have a seriously advanced degree in "I believe everything the right wing spoon feeds me."

You know, I'd like to respond to your comment, Change1234, but it is so rife with mis-spelled words, poor syntax and sentence structure and cohesiveness, not to mention that it is bereft of logic, I wouldn't know how to go about answering it.