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...
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.
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.
Seeing the direction the US is going, Europe needs to trend conservative to counter us.