Posted on 10/16/2008 8:58:21 PM PDT by Kukai
It was John McCain's best performance of the three presidential debates. He kept attacking, kept his opponent on the defensive and kept the initiative, booming at one point: "I am not President Bush." But it was not enough. The more Mr McCain laboured on Wednesday night to paint Barack Obama in lurid colours - he accused him of extremism on abortion and class warfare on taxes - the more he appeared to make his opponent's case for him. The epithets may seem hysterical to European ears, although to large swathes of the US television audience, they are probably less so.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“The world” can kiss my red, white and blue ....
I’m waiting for missiles to fly into Iran.
This from the Guardian: the the idiotic brit rag that called every American stupid when W won in 2004.
The world can get on all 4’’s and kiss my American keister.
What a crock.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
McCain would have to disavow and condemn the Republican Party. The Guardian might consider that ‘enough’.
What the Guardian does not see in their still anti-colonial myopia, is that we are Americans, and we cannot be fooled by the press , despite their best attempts to fool us.John McCain put the lie to the false Obama image the MSM has supported over the last 18 months. And McCain did that in just 90 minutes.
The Guardian and all MSM leftist ideologues are offended by the McCain they saw last night, becuase he proved that Americans have a genuine way to appeal directly to each other without the MSM spin on, for example, Joe the Plumber and John McCain.
Without that spin Obama is simply a glorified social worker who is in way over his head, as he proved by his erratic and stammering attempts to deal with the truths that John McCain presented to him.
That is the fact that the Guardian cannot admit.
And all those inabilities historical and otherwise, make the Guardian into little better than a rag with marks on it, bird cage liner material.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Londonistan weighs in ...
Sheesh England! You’re 50 miles closer than us to being taken over from within, and YOU are telling US?
The British may be excused for not understanding that the US MSM almost entirely reneged on their responsibility to inform their listeners and readers of 0bama's political origins and background. Instead, they treated us to a barrage of lies about Sarah Palin which the more intelligent of Britons probably already seriously resent having had imposed on them.
This, of course, put John McCain and Sarah Palin in a difficult spot. They, particularly McCain, had to use their debates to, besides describing their policy proposals, inform the US public of some of the salient facts regarding their opponents because the MSM have generally refused to.
Of course it came across as being 'negative', because there is actually very little in 0bama's and Biden's background that could be considered positive, from 0bama's involvement in ACORN and Project Vote which is currently under investigation by the FBI for vote fraud in nearly half the states in the United States, to his close familial relationship and involvement to a Sharia-promoting African relative in Kenya who, when his side lost recent elections, went on a rampage of violence which caused 1500 deaths and over a hundred thousand Kenyans to be displaced from their homes.
Then there's 0bama's close ties to those in the Democratic Party who are responsible for the global economic crisis that some of the more worldly of you Leftists may be becoming aware of.
We should also not fail to consider the fruits of 0bama's community organization efforts in Chicago, either, where the new housing projects he helped procured funds for in the '90s are already full out slums. If 0bama is turned loose on the US national housing market, the rest of the world had best prepare itself for more financial shocks.
I could go on about 0bama's Socialist/Communist/Muslim origins, or his demonstrated lack of commitment to his political constituents so far in his political career, but they are perhaps a bit less germane than the above factors to the potential future of the US and the rest of the world.
A very seriously aggravating factor in all this is the current dominance of the Democrat Party in both houses of the US Congress which has rapidly brought the approval ratings of that institution to a historically low 10% due to its sheer incompetence, ignorance and arrogance.
I should mention that only the extremely unsophisticated, among which is the author of the editorial I am responding to, would consider a childish 'friendship' to be the overriding objective to a cooperative association of nation-states. That is nothing more than a regression to a story-book Kumbayah stoned out attitude. There hardly exists a state of 'friendship' between most European countries. Why try to fool your readership with such inanities?
Please go on about Obama's Muslim origins. I understand that he came under severe criticism for attended a church (or was it a mosque) where the teh Reverend Jeremy Wright was pastor (maulvi?). Is Obama a Christian or a Muslim? Please note that I am asking about Barack Obama, not his parents. He can choose his religion, he cannot choose his parents. Now, if Obama is indeed a Muslim, so what? How does that disqualify him from being the president of the US?
..to which I responded thusly:
Say, 'Teacup' -
I shouldn't cater to your unhealthy obsession regarding 0bama's Muslim provenance, except to mention in passing that he has been consistently been dishonestly trying to obscure it, a characteristic of a retromingent delinquent, not a candidate for the highest political office.
It may be of some interest that 0bama likely converted to one of the most vile so-called 'Christian' sects in existence, one that subsists on racist lies and a sense of racial entitlement, only after he met his wife.
But his work in parliament was too little too late to save the colonies in America for Britain. His thinking was later followed with great success in the other British colonies around the world.
In mentioning Burke, I meant to say that the Guardian itself is still stuck in the quaint old view that we colonials still need to be placated and can't really think for ourselves, or else we would embrace Obama.The tyranny of Empire, overthrown by our forefathers never really happened, it was a fluke, and now requires an equal tyranny of colonial backlash represented by Obama and his movement, as has now happened demographically in France and Britain, and this is to result in an historic justice, which Obama represents and must be accepted by us.
The Guardian does not see, as Burke did not in his time, that Americans have left the historic situation long ago and now to where placating we colonials is meaningless. Obama is much the same in that he seeks the placation of our traditional American culture, less it come alive and again make America reborn in a new Century, with a new fabric based on the American dream.Instead Obama seeks to impose a Utopia where in we as Americans become less of free will, part of the European like world citizenry, while Burke wanted us to remain part of Britain's world Empire. Both have in their basic constituants a kind of tyranny, which America would not accept in Burke's time, nor would it accept it now. The Guardian doesn't get that we Americans are quite worthy of deciding for ourselves the direction we must take, without the context of burgeoning Empire in which the Guardian view is ensconced, albeit with a rather warped Utopian orientation as Obama seeks us to find.
Contrary to what The Guardian said," Its not enough.." it indeed was more than enough. McCain manifested as an American, and Obama manifested as a mere subject of a proposed Utopia which has much in common with the Empire we threw off 232 years ago, unfair taxation, economically enforced service to country of our youth,and an abandonment of private arms, to name but a few.
The days of socialism in America are over. It destroys our economy.The tyranny it would take to preserve socialism is much the same as colonial tyranny. The guns might eventually point at us to attempt to force us into it, but for now, the placating of the American Dream is attempted full force, with "spreading the wealth" and "health care is a right." Its not too much different than let them eat cake, which was essentially Burke's point for the purpose of Empire.
And Mccain referred to Obama's "eloquence." "But listen to what he says," McCain said, " He said we will look at off shore drilling." while Obama had the context that Obama was for a comprehensive energy policy. Such are the politics and method of placation by Obama. Its not much wonder that he Guardian thinks that Obama is right, their predecessors also thought Burke was right, or some of them did.
What really “chaps my ass” is the illusion that Americans need to be liked by “The World”. (from article -) “This confirms the other source of anguish that is at the heart of this election. America has lost international standing among its natural allies such as Britain and France, and its immediate neighbours Mexico and Canada. This is the bequest of a president who launched two wars, could finish neither, and leaves office on the brink of a global recession.”
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