Posted on 09/04/2004 5:32:32 AM PDT by kattracks
NEW YORK When Wolfgang Ischinger, the German ambassador to the United States, receives visitors from the Bundestag these days, they ask him what the result of the American election is likely to be."Well," Ischinger says. "The vote is very close. But the likelihood of President Bush winning is at least 50 percent."
The usual reaction is: "Mr. Ambassador, you cannot be serious. Are you suggesting Bush could be reelected?"
To judge by the Republican National Convention, which took over midtown Manhattan this week, Europeans and the rest of the world had better get over their incredulity and get used to the notion that four more years of Bush is a real possibility. This is a seesaw election: The candidate who looks like dead meat one week looks like a hungry hunter the next. Another swing could be just around the corner. But right now, Bush has seized the initiative.
The president has been helped by sloppy moves from the Democratic candidate, John Kerry, who got himself photographed this week windsurfing off Nantucket, an island retreat of the well-heeled. With less than 60 days to the vote, Americans want hard work from Kerry and fewer reminders of his wealth.
The Kerry campaign has given the impression of groping for a theme, or at least a sound bite, to derail the barreling Bush bandwagon.
In theory, the mixed economy should provide such a theme. But this first national election since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks seems driven by foreign and national security policy. In this area, and in ways that have illustrated the gulf between the United States and much of Europe, the Bush team has been relentless in attacking Kerry.
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The article also fails to mention that the former great powers of Europe have little choice but to appease the Islamists because they are no longer great. They have little ability to project military power, their populations are in decline, and their economies are dependent on cheap imported Muslim labor.
To put our foreign policy in thrall to Paris and Berlin under such circumstances would be an act of insanity,
I get your point, but your math don't work.
Each million dollars will build ten 100k homes. So, assuming he has 100M worth of homes, he could sell them and build 1000 homes for Americans.
I bring this up merely because most people don't run these numbers and therefore don't realize just how difficult it is to solve some of these problems.
Cohen is a perfect representative of the kind of thinking that goes on in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party, and a prime example of why John Kerry faces a loss of McGovernite proportions in November.
These European snobs will benefit from our efforts and they will never acknowledge it but their freedom will be more secure because of our efforts. Our brave soldiers will have died once more for them and because of them, because they tolerated evil and profited from evil and cared only for themselves.
Do they ever look at history? Do they ever remember that they pacified and ran from Hitler? Do they ever see a threat until it is too late? Are they so cowardly that they can't stand up to evil unless it is popular to do so? Can the French not see that their placation of terrorists will not protect them in the long run?
Aside from the social status he would feel, I really don’t think Kerry would like being President, it’s not a part time job.
Kerry barely shows up for his job a Senator, he’s constantly on a few days of vacation.
The German/European Media has been anti-Bush for a few years now, led by Chancellor Schroeder, who has made Anti- americanism his Campaign theme.
The populace has been indoctrinated and it will get worse.
You only have to look at Brussels latest attempt to curb freedom of the press through their "Caroline" decision. While the media is up in arms, the German government has decided not to contest it. Draw your own conclusion about what kind of reporting you will see in the future and what impact it will have on freedom of speech?
Goebbels would be so proud of his former apprentices. :(
Europe can afford to retire from history because they know that the United States will protect their freedom. It is the strength and will of the United States that allows the Europeans to act irresponsibly without bearing the consequences of their foolishness.
I was talking to a couple of Canadians I work with and we were discussing the election. They were spouting off about how Kerry looked like he was going to win in a close election and were astounded when I told them that Bush would win and it wouldn't be close.
All they could reference was the Old Media, especially Old Media Canada...the worst of the bad. They had never entertained the idea that Bush might actually win, or had ever talked to anybody who held such a weird thought. They're worried now. LOL!
"faced by a nihilistic terrorist enemy"
Was the author describing the terrorists or Europeans?
Is it too early for us to get together to agree on a draft of a full page ad to appear in the New York Times on November 4 in which we give the raspberry to Hollywood and Old Europe after Bush crushes Kerry at the polls? I would love to be able to identify the Hollywood weasels by name in such an ad as a way of getting even with all those Kerry endorsing press announcements and stage performances they have been engaged in. If we all contribute toward the cost and sign the page, we can keep a copy as a souvenir and we'll also feel a lot better to boot. Forcing the NYT to carry the ad would just be the icing on the cake.
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