Posted on 06/06/2008 9:24:05 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
If Barack Obama was taking on John McCain in a global election he would already be on his way to the White House.
A recent worldwide poll showed him beating the Republican by more than three to one. In Europe, his margin of victory would be even greater: Mr McCain would get only 6 per cent of the vote in Germany, where a government spokesman has waxed publicly about the attraction of Mr Obama's “mixture of Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy”.
Just about the whole of France is backing Mr Obama. He is, in the words of Jack Lang, the former Socialist Culture Minister, “the America we love ... the youth and racial mix of an America under transformation and in movement”.
As waves of euphoria swept across the Atlantic this week after Mr Obama's victory in the Democratic primary, a message on the “Brits for Barack” Facebook group declared: “We did it!” However, in reality, it is not up to them to do it. Mr Obama won the tightest nomination fight in living memory despite the concerns of many Democratic voters about his credentials as a prospective commander-in-chief.
One of Hillary Clinton's most effective television adverts showed children sleeping while a telephone rings at 3am in the White House. “Something's happening in the world,” an ominous voice intoned. “Who do you want answering the phone?”
In November's general election, Mr Obama needs the support of people who wanted Mrs Clinton to take that call - and probably to win over some of those who voted for President Bush four years ago.
American public opinion has shifted to the left since 2004, but no one is kidding themselves that the US electorate resembles that of Western Europe. One of Mr McCain's strategists summed up how they planned to attack Mr Obama in three words: “Naive. Inexperienced. Weak.”
So it was significant that, on his first outing this week as the Democratic nominee-elect, Mr Obama chose to deliver an uncompromising message to Iran, telling a pro-Israel audience that he would deploy every aspect of American power, including military force, to stop Tehran acquiring nuclear weapons. Even as President Ahmadinejad of Iran talks optimistically about the next man to occupy the White House offering a “new approach” to relations with his country, Mr Obama has been steadily drawing back from earlier promises to hold talks without pre-conditions in his first year in office. There would have to be “preparations”, he says, and he may not meet Mr Ahmadinejad.
George Galloway, the British MP whose views on the Middle East are regarded as bordering on insane in Washington, told a pro-Hamas television station last month that “I pray for the safety of Barack Obama - and I pray that he can shift the United States attitude” on the Palestinian issue. Mr Obama was swift to sever links with an adviser last month who admitted that he had spoken to Hamas.
When European officials talk to Mr Obama's advisers about his foreign policy, they are told that the rest of the world must do more to help America secure a military victory in Afghanistan. If they ask whether he really means to renegotiate free-trade deals, the reply is bluntly in the affirmative.
A planned trip by Mr Obama to Europe last summer was cancelled partly because his campaign team was concerned that the prospect of adoring crowds filled with “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” may not play too well in Iowa.
Europe will be able to make common cause with Mr Obama in a way that they have not with Mr Bush. His agenda would include tackling climate change, closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and using international institutions. However, even on Iraq, where Mr Obama's promise to withdraw troops would appear to be in line with the policy pursued by allies such as Britain, there may be trouble ahead.
Derek Chollet, a Democratic foreign policy expert and the author of America Between the Wars, said: “Europe is only just beginning to consider what Obama means when he calls for a ‘diplomatic surge' to accompany military disengagement. There is still a sense at the highest levels of government that Iraq is America's problem - and that would change very quickly.”
It has been difficult for world leaders such as Gordon Brown to be seen as being too close to Mr Bush. Mr Chollet said that the election of Mr Obama would give them “someone they can work with”, but he added: “There is an expectation management problem for all European governments. I think they are becoming aware of that.”
Hey, guys, let’s let EUROPE vote for our next president!!/sarc
It’s not Obama himself they love so much, they love the prospect of anyone in the White House who is seen as likely to weaken American power and sovereignty. If socialism and weak nationhood is good enough for them, then by golly it ought to be good enough for America /s
The one I find facinating, is the
“Predominantly Black Institution act” Where he wants the government to give financial help to students based on their color, not on their need. What about poor white kids? Indian kids? Hispanic kids? Asian kids? Eastern European kids? Kids from Tonga? Too bad!
Keeping the Rev. Happy!
I don’t know if we will be able to stand the first Wright/Obama administration.. We must stop these Wright-Obama racist policies from continuing. The American public doesn’t want these Wright/Obama policies in our nation anymore!
I forgot to post my source for that information.
This website:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400629&tab=bills
If Barack Obama was taking on John McCain in a global election he would already be on his way to the White House... In Europe, his margin of victory would be even greater”
Now I’m more convinced than ever Barry is the wrong guy for the job. :-)
The world honestly feels as if they are a state of our union. They are so dependent on us. We ARE the foundation of the world economy.
We fall, they fall.
Many people see Obama as their Messiah and THAT is the hold he has over them. Since we KNOW Jesus' voice and He knows ours, we follow him. It stands to reason that the same would work for the anti-christ.(Obama) His donkeys know his voice, and they follow him too. LOL
All this European interest in an empty shirt from America, as if we must elect him just to ptove to them we are not a racist nation.
Makes me wonder and ask, when was the last Black Leader any of them had?
Europe has long desired America lose its greatness and prominence, allowing the once powerful Europe to return to their reign of influence. Obama will surely give them that, at our expense.
I was getting all worked up and saw that photo a few posts up which made things crystal clear. George Galloway is nothing but a laughable broken liberal british politician who wore a leotard on a british sitcom because he has no dignity or shame. I can’t wish him worse than he’s already earned.
Tell you what, Europe: We won’t stop you from becoming the new Muslim Caliphate, and you don’t worry who we elect as our president!
“Young mulatto with a Muslim name good.
Old white man with Christian name bad.”
What I don’t get is why Europe of all places is embracing this nonsense. It’s insane.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazis scared the living bejeezers out of the brits. They came this close to becoming bars of soap. Unfortunately they learned the wrong lesson, not that resisting evil is wrong, but that all fighting is wrong. And so they’ve opened themselves up for cultural suicide from the middle-east, all to eager to fill the vacuum.
They just want a dynamic speaker who appeals to their emotions.
vaudine
They are nuts. Could he be the anti-Christ?
Yes...well...history repeats itself. Read "Exodus" as it details the fawning over old Adolf back in the day and that pretty much explains all of it, IMO.
Anyone know how many black Heads of State have been elected in Europe?
The Obamao just keeps racking up the endorsements of every nutcase and leftist organization around the globe.
When they need someone to help AGAIN to clean up their mess, after they have allowed a multitude of Muslims into their countries and they end up in another huge war, who are they gonna rely on?
US?
You know the old saying,"Birds of a feather flock together!
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