Posted on 09/02/2004 4:18:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Europe is Kerry country, and folks like Heike Warmuth reckon they have a chance to spoil President Bush's bid for a second term.
Even as Republicans fete the American leader at their national convention in New York, people across Europe -- where Bush is often derided as reckless and ignorant -- are rallying to the cause of lifting Democratic contender John Kerry to victory.
"The choice of a U.S. president is not something that affects America alone," said Warmuth, a founder of "Europeans against Bush," an Austrian Web-based initiative designed to swing undecided Americans toward Kerry.
"American politics affect the whole world, whether we're talking war or peace or the international economy," said Warmuth, a member of Austria's Green Party.
Not all Europeans are as active in trying to unseat Bush as Warmuth, who spent thousands of dollars of her own money earlier this summer in New York City as a Kerry campaign volunteer.
But her anti-Bush inclination reflects the overwhelming sentiment throughout Western Europe, a region where politicians are often admired for eloquence, where there is deep anger at what is seen as American arrogance in Iraq and on other issues, and where contempt of Bush's perceived cowboy persona and mispronunciations runs strong.
"In no way would I vote for Bush," said Christa Eden, a secretary in Frankfurt, Germany. "He thinks that everything he does is right and tries to push it on the rest of the world."
Among the established democracies of Western Europe, America's foreign policy and pop culture pre-eminence worldwide had left many citizens resentful on a deeper level -- even before the U.S. invasion of Iraq turned public sentiment overwhelmingly against Bush.
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Hey Europe, don't make us stop this car and come back there!
Europe still carries ZERO electoral votes. Sorry, Kerry, that's the way our Founders intended our elections. A genuine love of America would help your campaign, but with you history of treason, ...
Show me in the Constitution where these wastes have any right to vote in this country.
Except in Democrat precincts.
"I lived in France," she said. "My friends said, 'After 9-11, we would have come to bat for you. We would have done anything we could have done. We were allies....'
"But we were pompous, arrogant, and we wouldn't wait for the U.N." ***source
Is there a statute of limitations on treason?
Maybe they will let him be president of france.
... such as they are, at any rate... :)
It's a sure sign of desperation when the press is forced to look to Europe to find support for thier favourite candidate.
Europe is Kerry Country! That is SOOOO SPECIAL! ;-)
Europe's "love affair" with Kerry is no less passionate than Europe's earlier love affair with Neville Chamberlain. Fortunately, Europeans do not vote in our elections. By the way, Europe also had a love affair with Bill Clinton. He did nothing to effectively protect America and its interests from terrorism ans terrorists. Just their kind of guy. Just ask the French and the Germans and now the Spanish. Once again, for the third time in less than a hundred years, the United States will have to provide Europe with the protection it so woefully cannot, or will not, provide for itself.
"The choice of a U.S. president is not something that affects America alone,"
True. And the appeasement crowd in Europe will continue to be impacted by that which they can't vote on. :)
As a consolation prize in November, maybe Kerry could run for PM of France. All he would need to seal the deal is Jerry Lewis' endorsement.
On Aug. 15, 2005, President John F. Kerry returns with great fanfare to St.-Briac-sur-Mer, where his parents met and where he spent childhood vacations in a Breton coastal landscape immortalized by Renoir.
Escorted by his cousin, Mayor Brice Lalonde — a former candidate for the French presidency [Green Party]— Kerry leads the celebration of the 61st anniversary of the Allied liberation of the village from the Nazis. ***
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The Kerry's would-be Eastern White House.
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Oh for goodness sakes! Hey, I want to vote AGAINST Chirac and Schroeder. I can't understand how good Europeans can elect these arrogant, stupid men. Both are crooks who scammed $$$ millions from the UN Oil for Food program, and sold weapons under the table to Saddam, one of the World's most evil dictators. No one ever does stories about things like this, and the European press makes our MSM look like Pat Buchanan. Talk about brain-washed sheeple.....
Arrogant? They call us arrogant? I don't recall telling Europe who to choose to lead their countries. Obviously they don't know arrogance even tho they practice it daily!MrsPD
Jerry Lewis is a Bush supporter from what I've heard.
ROFL!
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