The Fearful Superpower

Another one sided piece of s*** article from newsweek While the GOP may use the threat of a terorist attack to help their base, it is still a real threat. The Dems use Bush and racism for their fear tactics. One thing about Obama there's no more Libtard excuses

The time for change is now. America must move forward from a dark hour and improve relations with the rest of the world that it was alienated from for the past eight years. The American people themselves want to reach out to the rest of the world. We look on with curiosity and zeal but at that same time never wanting to let go of our American citizenship and pride. Obama has been given an opportunity by the rest of the world to show a new America. Share our amazing culture with the world. The truth is most of the world is open to American pop culture. This is the best way to spread Americanism without a militaristic or a hard-line diplomatic stance. We can spread our influence but in a whole new way. We don't have to be a shadow of a former power but stand stronger than before but in a whole new way.

Wow...so i guess Democrats are innocent? They have had TWO years to fix the problem as they have the majority.....But let's blame the ugly head of Republicans.....GIVE ME A BREAK! As they are not innocent they are not completely to blame for the problem the Wall Street gave us.
As for kids being abandoned in high school....WHERE are their parents and how are they to blame in this? Why does the government HAVE to take care of EVERYONE!!!! Take care of yourself. Put on your Big Boy Panties!!!!

I completely agree with Melbee. There are kids in my high school who were more than just "left behind" they were abandoned....under the safe haven law. Ha

Always remember there are two faces to the same coin.Yes for 7 years george bush and the republican machine ruled by instilling fear and crashing any rational and objective opposition.This has largely been done by radical talk show hosts be it at Foxnews or the thousands of right-wing talk radio hosts like rush limbaugh, Bill Oreilly and the Sunday social conservative hate-mongers!!!.That was the face of Bush America:fear and hate of terrorist-sponsoring states and their idealogy.The idealogy that "God has given permission to some desert prophet or lunatic to kill all those who do not believe in Mohamed or Allah and be rewarded in heaven with virgins is as nonsensical as is petty.Its an abnomination against the very idea that our GOD is all-loving, all forgiving and all merciful!!!.that's the philosophical interpretation.
On the other hand,the premise of fear is patently false. On the second and final level of analysis, Islamic terrorism: with its suicide bombers and car bombs, be it from shia Iran or wahabi saudi arabia are but inferior threat to the might of Pax Americana. THESE UNWASHED DESERT TERRORISTS HAVE AS MUCH CHANCE OF SCARING AMERICA AS THEY HAVE OF SCARING THEIR LORDS, THE SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY.sO BEFORE THEY CAN CHALLENGE THE MIGHTIEST, WHY NOT OVERCOME THEIR ENSLAVERS???.

The Bush Depression


In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit.Bush created a national debt larger then the first 42 presidents combined
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why isnt obama 25 points ahead

The chairman of McCains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues they vote on a personality composite. Which means he is trying to sell you personality instead of results.

Let's teach him we are smarter than that .

31 states are voting now, dont wait
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Check out this video of sarah palins interview before you vote



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4i

America does not invest in education = No investment in our future.

We just keep spending money on more bombs, more war, more military and more corporate bailouts. I invite readers of this article to consider the following comparison: Our public school system versus our private financial powerhouses (the fat cats and the McCains who accept their lobby money).

As a public high school teacher, the current state of our public institutions reflect our values as a society, from my point of view. We are bailing out these failing institutions with taxpayer dollars while the state of our public school system continues to decline. Where is the INVESTMENT in HUMAN CAPITAL - The American Worker?

Good teachers are being laid off and class sizes are growing. No child left behind is a law that requires improvements without the promised funding to implement these improvements. And our schools are listed as "failing schools" because of unrealistic goals from unfunded mandates by the federal government. What is left in our public schools is often a stressed out skeleton staff that does not have the ability to properly educate our students.

Meanwhile, corporate lobbyists effectively secured deregulation and what they consider "optimal" conditions for their financial success (deregulation). And a few well-connected people have lined their pockets with enormous amounts of other peoples' money.

This sort of short-term gain at the expense of long-term growth way of thinking has infected our entire way of running our society. Enough is enough.

Middle and lower class young people (the MAJORITY) of our future do not have the money or the resources to hire corporate lobbyists. Their teachers and their schools have very limited resources. Where are the organized efforts to actually support the reform and progress to advance our public schools into the 21st century and educate and prepare our future?

In every other developed and developing country we compare our students' progress with, there is a clear and dedicated effort to improve, fund, and prioritize education. In America, we are starving our schools while bailing out reckless fat cats who've thrived on greed. Is this the American Way? Or have we lost our way?

Imagine where we might be in ten years if only a FRACTION of the billions our federal government has spent on the Iraq war and corporate welfare bailouts were actually INVESTED in making our public schools the most advanced in the world. THAT IS INVESTMENT. We will be "paid back" in our MOST IMPORTANT capital resource: Highly Educated American Workers.

Let this be a lesson. Hopefully (as we say in class) we will learn from our mistakes and use our lessons to improve, grow, and succeed - hasn't that been the American Way?

Our biggest problem is that we are living in the past. If we could dump this idiotic and outdated concept of democrat or republican then we could probably find a leader that could actually use common sense when making decisions instead of leaning to the left or to the right. Our politicians and media have put us in the corner and now force us to choose a side. Maybe some day we will learn.

May 27, 2008
8:56 p.m.

[ Suggest removal ] bossmaine ( no real name given ) says...
We all need to stop buying into this political nonsense these canadites feed us when its time for elections. They all sing the same song year after year election after election about providing more jobs, Better healthcare, Tax cuts, Money for schools ect. The majority of us are hard working americans just getting by and the majority of congress are upper-class, wealthy, and are born/bread to get into congress seats like its a family business of some sort. So how could they know what's going on with the rest of america; We should be asking congress and the presidents "Why are we getting double taxed?" Most people dont even know how much the're are paying in taxes each month. The average american makes about 400 a week thats 1600 a month,take out 80 a week in taxes, 35 in insurance which leaves 280/290 wkly before you get a check in your hand, So thats around 1120 mthly. Now do you believe out of that 1120 a month you're paying anywhere from 175 to 275 in sales tax. Add all the taxes u paid that month and its probably going to be almost half of your gross. And where does that put U and me into a low income,high crime area. And half of those people who were making that 400 a week have now lost their jobs and are now waiting behind bushes and around corners to rob me for my few pennies. "Thanks Mr. Bush" The whole point i'm trying to make is to stop letting the news media and your favorite talk show hosts brain wash you into voting for someone bc they like or dislike the cannidate most of them come home to luxury not affected at all. We need a new beggining and thats why im voting for Barack Obama because i feel he is new. Hell if anyone else was new I'd vote for them too. The fact is we have the same people in congress just moving from seat to seat like a chess game. If we want to go foward in life we have to make a new beginging and get rid of the old "hell god got rid of everything old to make way for the new so why can't we." The same people in congress with the same old mentality, got us stuck in time with no way to advance to the future, or better yet look at it this way if you use a vaccum cleaner to clean your floor, over time the bag gets old and full of dirt: So what do you do? Put a new one in or it stops working right! That's what has happend to this country congress stop working "for us" As for that full of dirt comment take it as some are old as dirt and the others are dirty meaning "corrupted." Now it's time to put in our new bag. "Barack" and get rid of all the filth in congress. By the way someone tell Hillary Clinton to tell her husband we said thanks for the foriegn trade policy he passed "which shipped most of our jobs overseas" and then tell Hillary thanks for her vote which helped send our troops over seas not to long after that. You know for some reason the Clintons like se

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Now why the most powerful nation in the World-the United state of America always fears a war against terror today.It needs to protect all americans at home and abroad,but this costs them so much and its current terrorism budget has often been higher than the MCA on an endemic malaria of which kills many children in sub saharan region.This is disgraceful.
The priority is terrorism and nothing else since it had become the order of the day everywhere.For the Bush admistration to tell African states to use his free mosquito nets does not help them in reducing mortality rates just because these poorer countries have no money to construct good infrastructures like tarmac roads,energy sectors e.t.c which are also obstacles to economic and foreign investment particularly in the Third World.
Mambo,Tanzania.

Now why the most powerful nation in the World-the United state of America always fears a war against terror today.It needs to protect all americans at home and abroad,but this costs them so much and its current terrorism budget has often been higher than the MCA on an endemic malaria of which kills many children in sub saharan region.This is disgraceful.
The priority is terrorism and nothing else since it had become the order of the day everywhere.For the Bush admistration to tell African states to use his free mosquito nets does not help them in reducing mortality rates just because these poorer countries have no money to construct good infrastructures like tarmac roads,energy sectors e.t.c which are also obstacles to economic and foreign investment particularly in the Third World.
Mambo,Tanzania.

"THERE IS NO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF" -FDR

Lets take FDR wise advice when we deal with the world community. In the age of globalization, the nation-state (America, Britain, Russia, China etc...) will take a backseat to the world community if we intend to face the problems & solve them together.,ie global warming, terrorism, North-South inequity, poverty, population growth. Acid rain does not recognize borders.

Mr Fareed Zakaria;
Congratulations! You have waken up the American public. The world future is developing &taking place as the US is concentrating in the Middle East, the Middle Kingdom(China) & India ; two old civilizations are reclaiming their places in the sun. We, Americans should not fall for the xenophobia which the GOP & many Conservative Democrats were guilty in their pandering to the nativist crowd. We should be eager to join China, India, Singapore, South Korea & turn our nation from a Eurocentric towards the Pacific basin.

Newsweek is losing circulation every month. It will soon go out of business. As for Fareed he uses every opportunity to be little the U.S... Most Americans care little for the rest of the world. I have traveled 3 continents myself and found most people to be lease than friendly to the U.S... Also we build things that matter now, flashy buildings are old hat. We make I-pod, I phone, computers, Robots, spaceships, new drugs, new better crops, New medical equipment, The internet, GPS, and.......on and on. Yes we should hold our heads in shame. We are such losers.

Newsweek is losing circulation every month. It will soon go out of business. As for Fareed he uses every opportunity to be little the U.S... Most Americans care little for the rest of the world. I have traveled 3 continents myself and found most people to be lease than friendly to the U.S... Also we build things that matter now, flashy buildings are old hat. We make I-pod, I phone, computers, Robots, spaceships, new drugs, new better crops, New medical equipment, The internet, GPS, and.......on and on. Yes we should hold our heads in shame. We are such losers.

Newsweek is losing circulation every month. It will soon go out of business. As for Fareed he uses every opportunity to be little the U.S... Most Americans care little for the rest of the world. I have traveled 3 continents myself and found most people to be lease than friendly to the U.S... Also we build things that matter now, flashy buildings are old hat. We make I-pod, I phone, computers, Robots, spaceships, new drugs, new better crops, New medical equipment, The internet, GPS, and.......on and on. Yes we should hold our heads in shame. We are such losers.

Newsweek is losing circulation every month. It will soon go out of business. As for Fareed he uses every opportunity to be little the U.S... Most Americans care little for the rest of the world. I have traveled 3 continents myself and found most people to be lease than friendly to the U.S... Also we build things that matter now, flashy buildings are old hat. We make I-pod, I phone, computers, Robots, spaceships, new drugs, new better crops, New medical equipment, The internet, GPS, and.......on and on. Yes we should hold our heads in shame. We are such losers.