Listen up! That Italian/Roman white guy is not me! I am the one I have been waiting for...not him. Besides, I know something that all you bitter rural, religious, gun-toting folks don't know...
Posted on 04/16/2008 9:39:38 AM PDT by obamahorror
The Italian Obama Loses Big! [Michael Novak]
Michael Ledeen was correct earlier this week that hatred for America has grown so intense in Europe recently that the nations there seem to be falling all over themselves trying to elect pro-American leaders. The past weekend produced a landslide victory for the pro-Americans in Italy, a majority of well over 100 deputies in the Chamber of Deputies, and some thirty seats in the Senate.
As a Major League infield in Europe, Berlosconi to Merkel to Sarkozy is now a great combination in the field, and they are long-ball hitters, too.
Untold story: George Bush has quietly kindled a love for America in large sections of Europe. Sarkozy before the American Senator was a joy to hear. And Merkel, and now Berlusconi, too!
In Italy, candidate Veltroni, the former quite leftist mayor of Rome — a good mayor, by the way — who led a new national (and unified) leftwing party into an almost eleven-point loss — ran at the end of his campaign as "the Italian Obama," and had the crowds chanting in Italian: "Yes, we can!"
Well, they couldn't.
He’s probably a bit darker skinned than Obama, but other than that...
Novak does make a mistake to assume that these shifts to the right have anything to do with America or support for us. Foreign policy occupies almost no space in European domestic politics. When they all shifted to the Left a few years ago it wasn’t about us either.
Veltroni’s Jewish actually
I heard Pat Buchanan say once that two Candidates changed the shape and future of American Politics and America itself. Both of them lost big as candidates:
Barry Goldwater and Goerge McGovern.
Lets see how he and his ideas do in future.....
I was delighted to see that the Communist Party lost ALL their seats in the parliament. If you recall the post-war years up to about 1980 or so, that is no small accomplishment. There were times when I thought Italy was in danger of becoming an actual Communist-bloc nation.
And their newspaper is Il Manifesto, whose journalist Giulia Sgrena was abducted and then released in the fiasco in which Nicola Calipari died.
The commies AND the Greens lost everything - they are out 100%. The left-wing in Italy has had culled from it its most toxic members. Dare I say they have drifted nearer to the center? When the left stops at Clinton-style third-way economic policies, they have climbed back over the precipice of respectability (the modern Democrats are currently slipping down the embankment). That, to me, is the big story here.
Seeing the direction the US is going, Europe needs to trend conservative to counter us.
typical garlic nose
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