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European Socialists eager to work with U.S. Democrats
Reuters ^ | December 7, 2006

Posted on 12/07/2006 1:16:20 PM PST by West Coast Conservative

European Socialists promised on Thursday to work to rebuild Europe's strategic alliance with the United States now that the Democrats control Congress after last month's elections.

Socialist leaders attending a meeting of the European Socialist Party pledged that with the Democrats on the rise, strong ties could be renewed with the United States after years of cool relations with Republican President George W. Bush.

Howard Dean, chairman of the national committee of the U.S. Democratic Party, is attending the two-day conference together with the leaders of leftist governments of several countries and party leaders from across Europe.

"We are not anti-American, we want the real America, your America," former Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, president of the European Socialist Party, said in remarks directed at Dean.

The Democrats gained control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1994 in the mid-term elections, reshaping the political landscape ahead of the 2008 presidential race.

"Europe needs an America that is back on track," said Portuguese Socialist Prime Minister Jose Socrates, whose country is hosting the meeting.

"We need, today more than ever, to reinforce and renew the strategic alliance between the United States and Europe," Socrates said. "We know that a stronger Democratic Party is key for this to happen."

Socialists, or centre-left governments, currently hold or share power in just over half of Europe.

Many European governments, not just Socialist ones, have above all been angered by Bush's war in Iraq and what has been seen as the U.S. failure to work with allies in international affairs.

They expressed hopes after last month's election for a new era of open dialogue on a more equal footing with Washington and the Bush administration during the final two years of his presidency.

Socrates said Dean's Democrats "should know that they can count on European Socialists" for support.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: communism; congress; democratparty; democrats; elections; eu; europe; socialism
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To: West Coast Conservative
My ongoing debate over Socialists: Are they worth a "double tap" or would you waste the extra bullet?
21 posted on 12/07/2006 2:21:54 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Steve_Seattle

What a load of hogwash... why the he!! is Howard Dean over there representing us anyway?


22 posted on 12/07/2006 2:23:45 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: West Coast Conservative
Of course. Because the democrats ARE socialists. They just got smart enough not to name themselves socialists.

This is a lost cause. For decades now America slides toward socialism, bit by bit. They cheat, lie, do anything to achieve the big goal. They are right when they claim that "we are not anti-americans", they just happened to be anti-current-americans". They will name the country the same, even when it will be socialism here. Nothing can be done. The majority of the voters in the long run will always fall for the "free this" and "free that" and "we will tax the rich", because they don't realize that most of THEM also be considered "rich". The same crap is going on for decades. When the conservatives get in for a brief period of time, the media starts to pour all available verbal poison, enough in four years to mislead the majority. And then they (socialists) get into power again and continue to build the socialism. Every time the right gets in, by then all things slid more to the left, what they could push back to the right.

There is no stopping. USA will be pretty much socialist in a couple of decades, then it will take a century to figure out that it was wrong. Or who knows, maybe that generation won't even know that it used to be much better. I am glad I will be dead by then.

Gabor
23 posted on 12/07/2006 2:24:08 PM PST by Casio
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To: Michael Bluth

Neither do I, but it seems we're outnumbered.


24 posted on 12/07/2006 2:25:10 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: West Coast Conservative
Howard Dean, chairman of the national committee of the U.S. Democratic Party, is attending the two-day conference together with the leaders of leftist governments of several countries and party leaders from across Europe.


Who would have thought that the Rats would scamper out of their hole to attend a lovefest? Happy Rats is just another effect of the 2006 elections that we have to endure.
25 posted on 12/07/2006 2:31:43 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (The faithful will keep their heads down, their powder dry and hammer at the enemies flanks.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

I'm surprised Michigan's resident Stalinist, John Conyers, didn't fly over to pick up the latest architectural drawings for gulags.


26 posted on 12/07/2006 2:31:58 PM PST by sergeantdave (Consider that nearly half the people you pass on the street meet Lenin's definition of useful idiot)
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To: West Coast Conservative

They sure have a couple of things in common, No Clue and Raising Taxes.


27 posted on 12/07/2006 2:34:18 PM PST by chiefqc
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To: Taggart_D

Birds of a feather flock together.

Read the Communist Manifesto, then read the Democrat Party Platform. I'll wait while you try to find any difference in the two documents.


28 posted on 12/07/2006 2:46:40 PM PST by R.W.Ratikal (q)
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To: West Coast Conservative

"How much worse could it be?"


29 posted on 12/07/2006 2:47:57 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: West Coast Conservative

This is the Ruth Bader Ginsberg "look to international law" crowd.

These are the people who gasped when reagan fired the air traffic control union members.

It is no small thing that Rangel and Kennedy and Hitlary AND OBAMA are proposing Germany style social wealfare worker programs.

The goal is to cripple the US ecconomy with socialist laws.


30 posted on 12/07/2006 2:53:16 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: crazyhorse691

Don't laugh too quick, the did win.

They were effective enough to fool even some of the useful idiots who visit FR.

We need to watch learn, expose and TEACH for the next two years.


31 posted on 12/07/2006 2:56:56 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: West Coast Conservative
European Socialists promised on Thursday to work to rebuild Europe's strategic alliance with the United States now that the Democrats control Congress after last month's elections.

Socialist leaders attending a meeting of the European Socialist Party pledged that with the Democrats on the rise, strong ties could be renewed with the United States after years of cool relations with Republican President George W. Bush

Soooooooooooo does this mean the Dem Party is now admitting they are SOCIALIST???

32 posted on 12/08/2006 3:31:18 AM PST by Mo1 (Thank You Mr & Mrs "I'm gonna teach you a lesson" Voter ... you just screwed us on so many levels)
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To: West Coast Conservative

bttt


33 posted on 12/08/2006 2:20:30 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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