Posted on 07/08/2008 4:36:22 AM PDT by Apollo 13
Dunno how this will come over in the U.S. Recently, I had an interesting debate with a Dutch column writer in our best national newspaper. In short: he wrote, a Dutch proverb: a kiddie's hand is filled quickly, by which he meant: Obama is massively popular in Europe whilst no one can list his ideas (or even one of them, for that matter). I am not always in agreement with this writer, but this time he hit it on the head. Every young(ish) European seems enamoured with Obama, and being fancying him as the next Christlike figure. Without having an inkling of a fragment of a tiny portion of what Barack actually stands for. I applauded his column, and wrote my thoughts, which briefly amount to the following: Obama is good to look at, and can be a seductive talker. But althought I tried to make sense of what he actually is planning, should he become the next Prez? I can't make no chocolate of it all, as we Dutch say. And worse, no one I ask can answer any question regarding this. All I get is a bit of a shameful blush of the cheeks. So: I guess that Obama is sort of a 'Bono'-like figure, a proverbial do-gooder without any big track record in doing good. He is attractive to the young, that is for sure; and perhaps he offers simple solutions for complex problems (always loved by the young, with their Guevara and Bob Marley t-shirts). Conveniently, the young like to forget that Marley did have some 35 children the world over by as many women, apart from his marriage to Rita, his lawful wife. I could go on, you know... Would you agree with me that this type of simple charisma could possibly bear a lot of future danger in it? Eagerly awaiting your opinions... A13.
Sorry for asking: my long text is under the title, but why doesn’t it appear onscreen immediately?
A13.
Heck I’m in the US and can’t list too many of his ideas. Mostly because he doesn’t have all that many. Mostly he wants to grow the govt and increase taxes.
Marxist thru and thru
Don’t be silly. It’s all hope and change. And don’t bother asking hope and change what, because it’s going to change tomorrow anyhow.
Thats very racist of you Ronin to question his hope and changing of the changes
They’re DUTCH, fercrissakes...maybe they figure he’s going to legalize coke and pot...
As long as he doesn’t legalize tobacco, that would be the kiss of death.
Oh no, the BBC and lefty's over here will just be drooling over him it's just what the corporations left-wing think tanks love and adore what they've always wanted and dream't of, a potential black American president with big govt and big taxes.
I can see it now, wall to wall coverage of Obama's visit like it's the second coming, one and two hour specials every night just dedicated to every aspect of his life......spare me please!
I'll just miss the news for a week or so and put on a Steve Mcqueen film instead......problem solved!
He he -
though cocaine is not legal over here, it’s seen as a ‘recreational drug’ and as thus not prosecuted that intensely.
I never used it, but I know what it does. I was, long ago, in a therapy group to wean myself off of benzodiazepines (read: valium); thankfully it worked. There was a coke user, a modest guy who didn’t even drink or smoke. But when he got the ‘urge’, he bought a little plastic bag with the devil’s dandruff.
He sniffed. He got into an indescribable high (as he put it). Which lasted, oh, 5 minutes. Then he lost contact with reality. He stole money from his wife’s purse and drove across the German border, deep into that country, deep into the night. Several times he refilled his tank without remembering it. Next thing you know: he found himself back in the German Alps; tank and wallet empty; he’d gotten a bad case of the shakes and had become totally paranoid. He didn’t dare to phone the police for fear of being incarcerated. He phoned his wife in Holland instead. She came with a friend; and collected him some 400 miles from home.
She’s still with him.
Lesson: don’t sniff coke. Don’t even sniff washing powder.
Mr. Obama is full of ideas...all of them bad ones.
All we know from his record is that he thinks government is God, and that it’s perfectly OK to end the loves of helpless children in their mother’s womb. Surely, there is no way he can square this view with his insistence that he is a Christian.
He voted “absent” 130 times while a state senator, and he has spent most of his time in the US Senate running for POTUS.
Frankly, I don’t think Mr. Obama could run a large restaurant, let alone a multi-trillion dollar government.
The biggest thing he’s run is a Senate staff, and he doesn’t really do that. His chief of staff does that job.
The Dutch like him because, yes, he is young, and he is not George Bush.
“absent” s/b “present” and “loves” s/b “lives”
Like you said - same ideas that they have in Europe - Marxist.
Bwahahahahaha!!!!! He's NOT good to look at and he reads his marxist garbage from a freakin' teleprompter! He's nothing without his teleprompter!
Ah well -
nothing to fight about. I write what I hear in Europe. Esp. the middle-aged ladies and the idealistic but ill-informed youth feel what I wrote.
To each his own, certainly.
Take a massive compiled list of political proposals, turn around, and throw the darts over your shoulder, repeat it a few times, and use whichever ones the darts hit.
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