The whole world clamors for "obama money" stolen from US, U.S.
Posted on 10/19/2009 9:38:00 AM PDT by 444Flyer
A FEW years ago, I accepted a Golden Globe award by barking out an expletive.
One imagines President Obama did the same when he heard about his Nobel, and not out of excitement.
When Mr. Obama takes the stage at Oslo City Hall this December, he won’t be the first sitting president to receive the peace prize, but he might be the most controversial. There’s a sense in some quarters of these not-so-United States that Norway, Europe and the World haven’t a clue about the real President Obama; instead, they fixate on a fantasy version of the president, a projection of what they hope and wish he is, and what they wish America to be.
Well, I happen to be European, and I can project with the best of them. So here’s why I think the virtual Obama is the real Obama, and why I think the man might deserve the hype. It starts with a quotation from a speech he gave at the United Nations last month:
“We will support the Millennium Development Goals, and approach next year’s summit with a global plan to make them a reality. And we will set our sights on the eradication of extreme poverty in our time.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“...I think back to a phone call I got a couple of years ago from Gen. James Jones. At the time, he was retiring from the top job at NATO; the idea of a President Obama was a wild flight of the imagination.
General Jones was curious about the work many of us were doing in economic development, and how smarter aid — embodied in initiatives like President George W. Bush’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief and the Millennium Challenge Corporation — was beginning to save lives and change the game for many countries. Remember, this was a moment when America couldn’t get its cigarette lighted in polite European nations like Norway; but even then, in the developing world, the United States was still seen as a positive, even transformative, presence.
The general and I also found ourselves talking about what can happen when the three extremes — poverty, ideology and climate — come together. We found ourselves discussing the stretch of land that runs across the continent of Africa, just along the creeping sands of the Sahara — an area that includes Sudan and northern Nigeria. He also agreed that many people didn’t see that the Horn of Africa — the troubled region that encompasses Somalia and Ethiopia — is a classic case of the three extremes becoming an unholy trinity (I’m paraphrasing) and threatening peace and stability around the world.
The military man also offered me an equation. Stability = security + development.
In an asymmetrical war, he said, the emphasis had to be on making American foreign policy conform to that formula.
Enter Barack Obama.
If that last line still seems like a joke to you ... it may not for long.
Mr. Obama has put together a team of people who believe in this equation. That includes the general himself, now at the National Security Council; the vice president, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; the Republican defense secretary; and a secretary of state, someone with a long record of championing the cause of women and girls living in poverty, who is now determined to revolutionize health and agriculture for the world’s poor. And it looks like the bipartisan coalition in Congress that accomplished so much in global development over the past eight years is still holding amid rancor on pretty much everything else. From a development perspective, you couldn’t dream up a better dream team to pursue peace in this way, to rebrand America...”
Ping
He needs to live in Rwanda for a while to feel the love.
Yeah. They won't do it by engaging the invisible hand of capitalism, they are going to try to do it by forcing on us the overt hand of socialism.
It is going to fail, it is going to fail utterly, and it is going to drag us all down with it.
Amazingly-pure drivel. Bono is a turd. Literally. He is made of crap.
puke FU Bono.
I don’t know, I kind of liked the piece. I get tired of “preachy” Bono but I thought he wrote a good piece here.
A tax-dodging foreign rock star. Who cares what he thinks about anything, let alone the USA or its politicains. LOL.
“you couldn’t dream up a better dream team to pursue peace in this way, to rebrand America...”
Dreams from bam’s kenyan communist father. Turn America into Zimbabwe. That will help the world immensely. Yes, it will.
The whole world clamors for "obama money" stolen from US, U.S.
Jones is just another Obama lackey. I think there's plans in the works to use Bono as a public figure in the future to aid Obama’s vision too. He would be a great propaganda tool. Bunch of flippin globalists.
“Obama deserving of the ‘hype’ and the Nobel: Bono”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8faa55e96c058eb666bf8e9c7fa069e4.1031&show_article=1
Here’s why Bono is in the fold – He’s the face of the propaganda machine, he’s the “brand” that will be used to promote this baloney, he’ll serve a purpose until they are done with him.
Bono, with or without U2, has a massive following, he draws people in with his so called “charm” and folks blindly follow him. Bono and U2’s appeal spans many generations – from the young kids to the original U2 fans of the 80’s, so when he promotes a “cause” people WILL support the cause without thinking or knowing what the cause is.
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