Posted on 07/27/2008 12:38:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What an odd presidential campaign it is when one of the principals, John McCain, managed to capture the other day but a modest inside-page newspaper photograph of himself and a woman named Renee Gould in a supermarket, where McCain, presumably, was jawboning with her about the price of broccoli. The store was in Bethlehem, Pa. It was in the United States, and it was old-fashioned political stumping.
While, in the meantime, Barack Obama was touring Europe and sounding vaguely un-American, which I don't mean in the spiteful or unpatriotic sense. In fact, he was very careful to point out that he loved America. His remarks in Berlin were so broadly encompassing of world change that he sounded like a fellow who might have been from anywhere, from France or Argentina or Turkey. He is not unlike the television news anchors who clamored to accompany him to Europe and help husband him through the travails. He could be from anywhere.
"People of Berlin, people of the world,'' Obama said in remarks at the Victory Column in Berlin's Tiergarten, "this is our moment, this is our time.''
I'm trying to imagine a German politician giving a speech in Yankee Stadium in which he tells me that it is our time. Our time for what?
Well, as a former president who also appeared in Berlin, and for a more powerful and specific reason, once said, "There he goes again.''
Obama's followers know what Obama means when he promotes change, but I don't. At least when he refers to change as it might develop under his watch in America, I can get an idea of his boilerplate adherence to his party's plank, free health care and another roundhouse punch to the 1 percent of taxpayers who already pay more than 30 percent of America's income taxes. He even threw in a little "to each according to his need'' reference when he said, "This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created and share its benefits more equitably.'' That plays well when you throw your arms around the world. I have no earthly idea what that portends or what it is that he imagines he is going to change.
It was all very UNy and One Worldy, especially when he referred to what he called the burden of global citizenship, as that burden might be applicable to saving the planet.
The planet is OK. What should concern the world is how we might survive our attempts to save it. One major volcanic eruption would put us in our place, but until some perfectly natural disaster comes along, we continue to be attracted by the warm glow of politicians whose extraordinary vanity makes it acceptable to believe that humans are bigger than nature and that as a result of us being, well, present and accounted for and driving SUVs, we have apparently ruined the planet.
Which we haven't.
"As we speak,'' Obama said in Berlin, "cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.''
Really? If you believe that, then you will believe anything — that you might head off this disaster, for example, by buying different light bulbs. Or you might have to believe that you had better stop driving in Boston and that the state had better close those factories in China.
Believing in anything, I do believe, explains Obama's grandeur. He preaches a meaningless belief in anything better than anyone, better than Al Gore or Sting or any of the notable reverends we have gotten to know.
It was a fabulous speech in Berlin and then off to Paris and then home.
Meanwhile, McCain's photograph appeared the other day beneath Obama speaking to 200,000, and the sign behind McCain in a restaurant in Ohio said "Schmidts Fudge Haus.''
Almost Germany.
OR John Mclaim for that matter.. they are all three globalists.. You know, like George Bush.. Its a globalist, marxist, progressive, socialist world these days..
The Capitalization of Socialism or the Socialization of Capital YOU WILL HAVE.. Whether in China, India, Europe or America.. What you gonna do?... throw a revolution?..
Yeah, he loves America alright. His 20 years listening to that God D*** America pastor, will not place his hand over his heart, takes the flag image off his campaign jet, had a terrorist friend who STOOD on the American flag, are just the start.
As contrived from your couch in the car stable. : )
For President Barack Obama and his world wide Obamacon cult, the Upcoming Election is "Just a Mere Formality!".
So just stop this stupid and outdated technicality of an Election. Osama/bama is now our FUERHER UBER BAMA, er president of America and the entire world.
The graphic below shows, the only difference between o-B-ama and o-S-ama is just a bit of B.S.
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