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Barack Obama: world leaders 'see me as a conservative [Kenya?]
telegraph UK ^ | 9/20/09 | Alex Spillius in Washington

Posted on 09/20/2009 7:18:41 PM PDT by mathprof

President Barack Obama may be regarded as a Communist trying to nationalise health care by his fiercest detractors at home, but other world leaders see him as a conservative, he declared on Sunday.

Asked about the antipathy aroused by his stimulus bill, health reform plans, and takeover of ailing banks, the president revealed that the stinging domestic criticism has bemused other politicians whose politics are ostensibly to the Right of his.

"I can't tell you how many foreign leaders, who are heads of centre-right governments, say to me 'I don't understand why people would call you socialist, in my country you would be considered a conservative'," Mr Obama told CNN.

He refrained from naming names, but his leading centre-Right allies are Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, who visited Washington last week, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor.

Mr Obama acknowledged that "yelling at politicians is as American as apple pie", but appealed for greater civility in the nation's political discourse. "It's important to remind ourselves we are all Americans who love this country," he said.

In angry scenes at town hall meetings and street protests, Mr Obama has been vilified as a communist, socialist or even a Nazi and a sinister supporter of euthanasia.

Jimmy Carter, the former president, and black Congressmen have said that racism has fuelled the hostility towards the first African American president.

But Mr Obama said the objections were rooted in opposition to "big government", not the colour of his skin, although he was sure that some people "don't like me because of race".

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bama; bho44; communist; crazybarry; deranged; isobamacrazy; mentallyill; narcissist; obama; socialism; totus; unhinged; worldopinion; zero
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To: mathprof

Are all of these pots calling the kettle black? Commies and socies recognize Obama for what he is. Comrades, salute the supreme leader.


21 posted on 09/20/2009 7:42:53 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: Rome2000

My comment is based on my feeling that he believes, like the Emperor in regards to his new suit, that what he says is true. There is no doubt in my mind that this man is narcissistic enough to believe his own words.


22 posted on 09/20/2009 7:43:00 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (No apologies.)
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To: R0CK3T
Fictional characters from beer commercials have more gravitas than this utter jOke.

Stay thirsty, my friends.

23 posted on 09/20/2009 7:47:20 PM PDT by kromike
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To: mathprof

Is this his way of justifying his attempt to take this country as left as he possibly can?


24 posted on 09/20/2009 7:50:14 PM PDT by cranked
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To: R0CK3T
OR - for sure he THINKS he's this guy...

bill murray - stripes Pictures, Images and Photos

"Chicks dig me..."

25 posted on 09/20/2009 7:50:35 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: VeniVidiVici
Lenin thought Stalin was a conservative.

I'm not sure that was Lenin's problem with Stalin. Lenin said what he thought about Stalin here.

26 posted on 09/20/2009 7:51:26 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: SandRat

He’s not delusional. He is a stupid SOB, and a liar, but knows exactly what he is doing.


27 posted on 09/20/2009 7:54:40 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: mathprof
"I can't tell you how many foreign leaders, who are heads of centre-right governments, say to me 'I don't understand why people would call you socialist, in my country you would be considered a conservative'," Mr Obama told CNN.

If true, it proves the rest of the world is f**king nuts. If false, it's yet another in a series of lies.

28 posted on 09/20/2009 7:55:59 PM PDT by RockinRight (9/12/09 - the day the sh*t hit the fan)
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To: mathprof

He is a weak and incompetent leader.

Conservative is just his code word for “weak and incompetent”.


29 posted on 09/20/2009 7:57:40 PM PDT by ADSUM (Democracy works when citizens get involved and keep government honest.)
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To: kromike
these alleged "world leaders" are entirely fictional.

Queen Latifah?

30 posted on 09/20/2009 7:57:55 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's ACORN" - pace Auric Goldfinger)
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To: mathprof

Conservative? They see him as a weak joke. An empty suit that is willing to run away and put impossible rules of engagement on our troops that do nothing but get them killed.


31 posted on 09/20/2009 8:00:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: mathprof
"I can't tell you how many foreign leaders, who are heads of centre-right governments, say to me 'I don't understand why people would call you socialist, in my country you would be considered a conservative'," Mr Obama told CNN.

I guess MAYBE Hugo Chavez & Kim Yong Il think that (if you believe anything Pres BIG EARS says). I happen to think Obama is just ARROGANT (like I have never seen before) and INSANE!

32 posted on 09/20/2009 8:01:23 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Viking2002

Well, compared to the Bath-House Bureaucrats of Western Europe, he may be right. The European Union is a cess pool of girly-men capitulators who think they know what’s best for the serfs.

Obama’s message here is that he’s a wanna-be ‘European.’


33 posted on 09/20/2009 8:03:06 PM PDT by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: mathprof

in my country you would be considered a conservative’,”
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DUH...

There’s your answer, Barry...

When Van Jones left, your lost your All Socialist standing...

AHHHHHHH, No, ...dont cry.. nobody said you were All American...

You’re anything but that...

You qare just not quite MVP material for Socialism...

You lack that certain something...

Like just one Czar away from All Socialist...


34 posted on 09/20/2009 8:06:14 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: mathprof

That must make him 1% above sub human!


35 posted on 09/20/2009 8:06:54 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: mathprof
0bama's a liar!
36 posted on 09/20/2009 8:26:09 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: mathprof
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37 posted on 09/20/2009 8:33:14 PM PDT by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: mathprof
"...world leaders see him as a conservative."

It's possible. There could be some obscure leader of a Kenyan tribe who thinks Obama is a conservative. But more importantly, what do the American people think? Most Americans have reached the conclusion that this clown shouldn't be sitting at a desk in the Oval Office, but rather knelt in front of it spit shining shoes. Best I can tell, all he ever does is recite communist philosophy straight from a teleprompter.
38 posted on 09/20/2009 8:54:13 PM PDT by Ragtime
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To: mathprof
But Mr Obama said the objections were rooted in opposition to "big government", not the colour of his skin, although he was sure that some people "don't like me because of race".

First time I really agree with him, if what is written is what he meant.
39 posted on 09/20/2009 8:55:31 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: mathprof

yea and we are to believe he is conservative when Chavez joked that he and Castro would have to move to the left in order to keep up with him?

I guess if you are comparing all of the evil dictators in the past to the ONE then he might be considered conservative to lets say PolPot or Lenin?

Jesse Jackson had the right idea when he stage whispered that he wished they would whack off his ba###. It certainly takes cajones to spew that one out there.


40 posted on 09/20/2009 9:23:27 PM PDT by ODDITHER (HAT)
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