Obama calls for new partnership
Barack Obama told an estimated 200,000 Germans today that as president he would rebuild the trans-Atlantic partnership he said is essential to security and progress in the world.
"[W]e cannot afford to be divided. No one nation, no matter how large or powerful, can defeat such challenges alone. None of us can deny these threats, or escape responsibility in meeting them....And if we’re honest with each other, we know that sometimes, on both sides of the Atlantic, we have drifted apart, and forgotten our shared destiny," he said in front of the 226-foot Victory Column in Berlin's Tiergarten Park, the biggest public event of his first foreign tour as the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Citing the global threats of terrorism, nuclear weapons, and climate change -- "cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic" -- Obama said Europe and the United States must work together.
"That is why America cannot turn inward. That is why Europe cannot turn inward. America has no better partner than Europe. Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the Atlantic. Now is the time to join together, through constant cooperation, strong institutions, shared sacrifice, and a global commitment to progress, to meet the challenges of the 21st century," he said.
Obama recited the history of the division of Berlin after World War II -- and US support during the Cold War, starting with the Berlin airlift, then the fall of the Berlin Wall and communism.
As more than a few US flags waved in the cheering crowd, he said he came to Berlin "not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world."
He acknowledged that America has not been perfect. "At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people," he said. "We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
"But I also know how much I love America. I know that for more than two centuries, we have strived – at great cost and great sacrifice – to form a more perfect union; to seek, with other nations, a more hopeful world."
"People of Berlin -- and people of the world -- the scale of our challenge is great," he concluded. "The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again."
After the speech, he waded into the crowd -- which at times during the speech repeated the by-now ubiquitous chant of "Obama! Obama!" -- to clasp hands.
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds issued this statement about Obama's speech: "While Barack Obama took a premature victory lap today in the heart of Berlin, proclaiming himself a 'citizen of the world,' John McCain continued to make his case to the American citizens who will decide this election. Barack Obama offered eloquent praise for this country, but the contrast is clear. John McCain has dedicated his life to serving, improving and protecting America. Barack Obama spent an afternoon talking about it."
Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee in 2004, said that while Republicans were able to tag him as too Euro-friendly, the Iraq war and other failures mean that voters won't be swayed along the same lines this year.
"People are looking at the world very differently," Kerry said on MSNBC.
He said it was "not just historic, but unbelievably exciting" for a potential US president to be so well-received in the world.
The crowd, estimated by German police at more than 200,000, was bigger than any Obama drew during the presidential campaign stateside -- 75,000 at a rally before the May primary in Oregon -- and the 80,000 or so expected for his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention next month in a football stadium in Denver.
Obama had sought to lower expectations for the size of the crowd in Berlin. "I doubt we’re going to have a million screaming Germans,” he told reporters on his campaign plane, throwing cold water on some speculation in the German media.
But by picking Berlin for his speech, Obama raised expectations because several presidents have made historic speeches there: John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner!" in 1963 and Ronald Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" in 1987.
Obama wraps up his European tour with a stop in Paris on Friday and in London on Saturday. On the trip, he has already talked to Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and toured the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Republicans have been sniping at Obama, while complaining about the wall-to-wall media coverage.
Senator John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, said on MSNBC this afternoon that voters have to decide whether they want a "celebrity or a commander-in-chief" in the White House.
Republican John McCain toured a German restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, where he told reporters that he'd love to give a speech in Germany. "But I'd much prefer to do it as president of the United States rather than as a candidate for president," he said.
Best line of the speech: "Ich bin ein Beginner!"...You think the Germans will heed his word by sending a few thousand troops to Afghanistan? It's a NATO operation with the US footing 85% of the effort. Let's see if the Germans strap it on and join the fight against Islamic radicalism with the same enthusiasm that they take the day off to swoon over St. Barack. How does one say, "Reporting for duty" in German?
I love how Obama is now addressing "People of the World". I must have underestimated his ego.
People are cheering him because they dislike Bush. Bush shined a light on much of the light in European delusion. When the United Nations would issue resolution after resolution after resolution regarding Saddam Hussein, it became apparent that these "Resolutions" did anything to bring things to resolution. When the Europeans would make a sport out of badmouthing the US, Bush would remind them that it was US GI's that came forward to defend them in WWII. Even when countries that could afford to be socialistic because they knew that the United States would defend them would bad mouth us, the Republicans would remind them that it was our Nation that had to pay for Guns, Butter, pay premiums for perscription drugs which fuels R&D, not have the universal health care, don't get the three month vacation deal, etc. and that we had to be first in line to donate our money or come to military aid to other nations if they were in trouble.
Many Europeans don't like Bush, because Bush pointed out their hypocrisy and that the US wasn't the ugly nation that they wanted to believe. History will prove that it took a cowboy Texan to stand up to radical militant Islamists, and it is delusional and disrespectful for latte drinking lazy coward socialists to be critical of the person who was out there defending the free world while everyone else was in a comfortable delusional rest.
Obama needs to be careful that if he nods, laughs and shakes hands with all these leaders that they will come to expect that he will help advance their agendas. That's the catch about "Hope" everyone sees Obama as a vessel for their hopes and dreams and that vessel can't go every direction. He seems as happy as a clam to just sit and absorb all the attention which is really happiness that he's not Bush. He's even putting on the JFK costume and we're so intellectually daffy like little schoolgirls with a crush that we turn off all critical thinking.
History will prove that when our nation was attacked by radical Islamists who were growing like a cancer and training openly in sanctuary nations, that we took an unstable nation led by an evil dictator who offered rewards to terrorists for attacking the United States and we gave those people an opportunity to establish a Democracy. Obama has not callouses on his hands, either side, so he is trying to waltz in and bad mouth those that made this better reality possible. We are safer than before and as Iraq grows through it's Democracy, other Nations will realize that we weren't the ugly Americans that their delusions and perhaps guilt driven defense mechanisms have framed us as.
The ability to articulate the hopes and dreams of billions of people in such a positive manner is awe inspiring. Barrak Obama is a man of the people but
educated well and with, obviously, tremendous empathy. I have no doubt he will be
a thoughtful and decisive commander-in-chief. He will also demonstrate a scope of perspective that has been sadly lacking for many years. I believe he can best
represent our now very heterogenous culture, better than anyone I have seen.
God bless him, and God bless our nation.
The ability to articulate the hopes and dreams of billions of people in such a positive manner is awe inspiring. Barrak Obama is a man of the people but
educated well and with, obviously, tremendous empathy. I have no doubt he will be
a thoughtful and decisive commander-in-chief. He will also demonstrate a scope of perspective that has been sadly lacking for many years. I believe he can best
represent our now very heterogenous culture, better than anyone I have seen.
God bless him, and God bless our nation.
Oh, and another delusion:
When he addresses the 80,000 in Denver, wait and see him put on the Martin Luther King costume and how everyone will buy it.
If you have a critical bone in your body ask yourself this:
Was MLK's Dream to have a Black President or to have a color blind nation? Confusing this is effectively changing/destroying MLK's vision and guidance. The lasting impression of MLK is that we strive to be a color blind nation and judge people by the content of their character not the color of their skin. For people to say that electing a Black President is the embodiment of MLK's vision is terribly out of line.
If you can face that question ask yourself this: Why did Obama vote to confirm Condi Rice to Secretary of State? Why did he vote to fund over $300,000,000,000 for the War if he was voted into office to end the War? People are mad at the Democrats for not having the backbone and courage to end the War when they were elected to do so (Obama is in this class), and he gets away with running on an "I told you so" campaign. McCain had the courage to WIN the war and went against his own Party to push forward a strategy that actually helped us win and secure a Democratic Nation. The Democrats didn't even have the backbone or competence to retreat properly, and now that we're close to winning he's going over and taking bows and failing to realize that without the effort he voted against, his being there and speaking with democratically elected officials wouldn't be possible.
I am amazed to find out much Obama is liked around the world. Perhaps, the world is sending us a clear message. Look at the mess we have with Bush and no one liked the guy then or now. So, I am willing to bet that we will be better off with Obama.
Grego and Hoped Into Submission.......Crawl back under that slimy rock! Is it desparation I hear? Or jealousy? Or just plain stupidity! You are either "disenchanted Hillary supporters", or Republicans who can't see the forest for the trees! If you are repubs, too bad your candidate is so lackluster! Maybe that's where the jealousy comes in???!!!
I've underestimated this thing.
Republicans really are afriad of not only losing the White House but to a Black man at that.
"I love how Obama is now addressing "People of the World". I must have underestimated his ego."
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No, you underestimate the global role of the office of the US President.
Hoped into Sub- You Yellow Dog Republicans will never learn. Stay delusional my friend. Your overly long blog entry confirms how misguided you are, over and over and over again. It amazes me some people still think President Bush is doing a bang up job..........Unless of course, this IS President Bush...................hmmmm
Oh, and how about Al Gore's corporate jet, his 10,000 square foot house that uses 12 times the electricity than an average home, Ted Kennedy and Brangelina's yachts, do they melt the ice caps more than the guy's car in Boston as Obama describes?
Obama's lofty and grandiloquent rhetoric rarely specifies much, but when it does define something that seems like a strike zone, his actions and supporters never seem to align with it.
He's friends with people that hate America, Tony Rezko, etc. He talks about the mortgage crisis, but applauds Deval Patrick, who was on the Board of Ameriquest and got several hundereds of thousands of dollars to provide political cover for one of the worst predatory lenders that actually targeted minorites, and the Globe writes an article about how some think he should be considered for the Supreme Court. The guy wrote a letter to a Parole Board to ask for the release of a grandmother rapist. We find out that he's all cozy with the Casino Industry and his chief aide who's in charge of ushering in these predators gets caught with a young boy. Who in their right mind would suggest that this sort of person is worthy to sit on the US Supreme Court? How on earth do people define their strike zone and how on earth do they keep score?
I think people need to step back and clear their minds. Just as Texas is the "no-nonsense" state, Massachusetts is supposed to be the rational, critical thinking, State.
"Crawl back under that slimy rock! Is it desparation I hear? Or jealousy? Or just plain stupidity! You are either "disenchanted Hillary supporters", or Republicans who can't see the forest for the trees! If you are repubs, too bad your candidate is so lackluster! Maybe that's where the jealousy comes in???!!!"
Try sticking with the issues MB. Care to address points regarding NATO, Germany and Afghanistan? How is it that Europe can't pick up an extra 10% of the effort?
When you make your point at a purely personal level, you've already thrown in the towel. My jabs at Obama are part of the fun and games of presidential politics and made with sense of humor. You should be able to handle it without losing your cookies...and regarding that slimy rock under which I have crawled? I left Newton years ago....lighten up!
MB: you vote for luster?
Luster is defined: the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss: a shining object, esp. one used for decoration, as a cut-glass pendant or ornament.
We're voting for a President not a game show host.
Haven't you ever encountered anyone that knew what you wanted to hear and tried to charm you? Don't you ever check out their background to see if they are legitimate before you give your vote of confidence?
Does it bother anyone else that Obama is meeting with, or campaigning to, foreign leaders, discussing policy as if he were president? I think this can be potentially hazardous, maybe even dangerous. He really should not be meeting with foreign leaders to discuss policy until he is elected, or only as his role as a US senator allows.
Truly inspiring. And yet all the McCain camp and conservative wackos on here can do is whine whine whine. Typical. Whatever Obama does or does not accomplish in office, he cannot possibly be worse than the 8 brutal years we've just endured under the regime of the soulless. You people bashing him need to get your own houses in order, THEN come talk.
This Guy...
"hoped into submission by Obama"
Is obviously a Republican who has far too many false ideas about the war in Iraq and is a result of watching too much False (Fox) News. This is why he feels it is his duty to shed the "Right's Light" on Obama and the perception everyone in the world has on him. When I hear that I just ignore it, because listenning to him would be like listenning to a whack job like Sean Hannity.
Such a different message & vision than the one we had for the last 8 years built on greed, fear and war. Barack's message is on the oneness of Humantiy and our shared and common goals -- that we are all of us in this together. It was based on love and goodwill toward each other. That we are not alone and without hope. That there should be a freedom from fear and want everywhere in the world and that only united can we build a better world for all. What a great vision to aspire too, especially for the young and the children of the world. Gives them something to look forward to other than years of war and hate.
This is such an inspirational and great healer/teacher/leader! Is it not great that we are talking about peace and unity for a change? Our common humantiy? That speaks a lot in itself. He generated a lot of powerful, healing engery today. We must not loose it.
Today was the first time I had the opportunity to see Senator Obama speak live. As an American citizen living in Berlin, I was happy to have the chance to hear something directly from a candidate -- and not just a version which has been edited for time/content/popularity with which the internet and most European press outlets is rife.
I have to ask, however, what made this evening's speech different from anything we have heard before? The world should look to Berlin as a beacon of hope against tyranny--well, yeah. Of course this city is a prime example of how a people can stand against truly repressive regimes. The United States and Europe should both be willing to admit shortcomings and work together to create a better world for everyone. Again, sure. But what makes these revelations deserving of proclamation before a crowd of 200,000?
Perhaps my greatest fear is that whenever Sen. Obama ventured away from the rhetoric of uniting the world, his enthusiastic reception from those assembled in the Tiergarten noticeably waned. The enthusiastic applause which accompanied the Senator’s imploring the world to come together curiously dissipated when he alluded to the role the German Bundeswehr should play in the armed conflicts in Afghanistan. And after Sen. Obama called for a united Europe which must include reaching out to and working with Russia, the feeling of reticence within the masses was nearly tactile.
So, after joining my fellow Berliners and my fellow Americans to see a truly gifted and engaging orator challenge us to believe in our collective and improbable hope, I don’t really know what to think. Is making such a speech while still only a legislator hubris? Naïveté? Or is it the responsible act of someone who might well become a true player on the world-stage?
Or was this all just really good theatre?
Obama is all talk. When has he ever gotten his hands dirty? Talk is cheap, don't be motivated by talk, look for a track record of results and action. Obama has no track record, he has written books about himself. He is egotistical and self centered. He started off to write a book about race relations and was so self absorbed that he wrote about himself.
Here are his actions: It is a fact that he has voted for over $300 Billion for the War. Obama voted to confirm Condi Rice, one of the chief architects of this War as Secretary of State. I am a Registered Democrat and I was really hoping to like Obama and when I watched him question Condi Rice I was really deflated. I could tell he was just a politician and the Democrats needed someone, anyone with a backbone. Obama didn't have it. It is a fact that he has voted along party lines 97% of the time. When he talks about "No Democratic America or Republican America it is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" it must have slipped his mind that he voted 97 percent of the time along party lines and was the furthest member on the extreme than any other in his Party. His grandiloquent rhetoric states that it is good to see one America, but his positions are to the EXTREME LEFT. He never went out on the limbs that McCain did. I am a Democrat and I can recognize that McCain has walked the walk. He has the political scars to prove it. Obama's rhetoric and track record don't line up.
The Europeans love Obama NOW. Obama is a politican and we're voting for the polar opposite from George W. Bush. McCain has been sitting in the middle. If McCain was so wrong to vote for the War, why is it that so many Democrats voted for it like John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and all down the line. Should they be thrown out of office?
WHAT HAS OBAMA EVER DONE THAT LINES UP WITH HIS RHETORIC. I am not some far left wing person that applauds a 97% party line voting record, a naive college student that hasn't ever been burnt by a sweet talking politician, or someone that is in a dream world that thinks that evil people can be hoped into submission. Working people who make this world work don't want b.s. we want action.
Guys, would you hire a coach for the New England Patriots with this little experience? You couldn't get a greenskeeper at Fenway with as little experience as Obama has. How is it that the President of the United States, one of the most important roles in the World can be held by someone with such little experience. We've got community organizers in Chelsea, nut jobs on the street that stated that we shouldn't go to War. Obama never had access to the briefings and reports that people in Congress had. He wasn't in Congress. Deval Patrick played this same line on us. He appealed to our hopes and dreams and then he opened the door for the casino industry, his predatory mortgage lender friends, etc.
Don't be snowed by sweet talk, we need action, we need a track record. Walking the walk is hard, you have to make decisions. Sitting on the sidelines, voting "Present" is a cowards path; it is inaction. Don't let this Johnny come Lately, done nothing entertainer uproot you from your judgment. I'm just asking you to rethink your mental calculus and look at things without the rose colored glasses that HE IS PUTTING ON YOU WITH HIS SWEET TALK.
Oh, I loved how the person in Germany talked about how the crowd went LIMP when Obama suggested that they pitch in in the War against Terrorism. Even in Afghanistan. Nope.
Obama is going to wave his "Happy Wand" over the World and all our problems will go away. I wonder if he will ever suggest that anyone needs to lift a finger to make the world wonderful again. That might be a risk that the cowards and deadbeats might be offended by. Let's make the few that pull the sled, and pay taxes pull more of the load. Let's have more entitlements, hey you're entitled to not work, pay taxes, defend peace, get elected with no experience. Hey, these are happy times and we have happy rules.
Hey "Laughing at Conservatives"
"Republicans really are afriad of not only losing the White House but to a Black man at that."
How typical of liberals to play the race card. You disgust me.
What Republicans (otherwise known as patriotic Americans) are afraid of is a Commander in Chief who does not put the United States of America first. We are afraid of a Commander in Chief who considered it "inappropriate" to visit American troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a military hospital in Germany, and the Ramstein Air Base, but appropriate to address 200,000 Germans with a campaign speech.
How dare he!
That's not racism. That's just fact.
OK Now I get it, He is in Middle East once, Germany Once and Africa Once, and now he is an expert on Terrorism? OK me too, Now I am qualified to be president too.. Give me a break. You are No expert Obama , IT ovah for you, its OVAH!
McCain said he would rather wait give a speech in Germany as President rather than a candidate, and some say we need a track record. The presidency is a marathon and at 71 it is a big concern. The deciding factor is who he picks for a VP. I don't think McCain is going to last he looks like the campaign is beating him down already. A few trips around the globe and the jet lag might kill him. He's just too damn old and I am sick of the same old thing. What has all that experience done for us? The whole race is full of pretenders and has beens. Bring in the clowns. It's either pick an old white guy ready for the dirt nap or a young black guy who just talks.
I am so disgusted with the tough guy attitude many Americans take in their approach to the world. Citing wars fought and alliances made probably before most of us were born is meaningless. I do not hear England or France taking self proclaimed credit for their essential roles in creating the US. All of this "America is the world protector" crap is the same attitude that the high school bully has towards his oft smarter class mates. The truth is Europeans are much more aware of their own history than we are, a history that dates back before World War 2 by the way my flag waving friends. Anyone that keeps on with this most ignorant of ways in which to approach the world, should just strap on some boots and go fight the wars you crave rather than talk on a soap box. Europe having been destroyed by World War 2 has a much more intimate and realistic understanding of war, which is why they are so rightly and strongly commited against it. For once, let's stop at think that maybe the other 575 billion people in the world have an opinion that is worthy of listening to, especially if that opinion comes from our originary ancestors in Western Europe. Obama is clearly the man for the job, and he has overwhelming support at home and abroad. If we lived in a true Democracy, Barack would have already been inaugurated in place of an impeached Bush. All I ask from all of my fellow Americans that have not been outside of the continental US is to please never ever make a case in point citing some military aid given to an ally in one instance and then imply that we necessarily have the upper hand in all further affairs. I thought that we lived in a Democratic Republic, not an Imperialistic Tyranny that seeks to silence all "unamerican" dissent while forcefully implementing its agenda of power and control of the few. This tyrannical agenda may not be intended as such, but that is because Bush, like McCain is rather dumb, and completely out of touch with Americans, and even more so with our other fellow human beings and rightful citizens of the world
Steve J. : The bully on the school yard was Saddam Hussein. I tried out your ideology for a long time, I was actually raised with that ideology and growing up in this area it seems to be predominant. I just think that things have crept and drifted away from the values you speak of. If a Democrat thinks about the values of what they stand for and forget the lock step loyalty to the brand, I think they might surprise themselves.
The Democrat was the Donkey, it was the hard working, loyal member in society. Someone on this blog said McCain didn't have enough "luster"; a donkey doesn't have much luster either. Obama is very good at talking because that is all he does. He has no substanitive experience and the words roll out of his mouth effortlessly because he has made no efforts in reality to back them up. There is no reflection about real experiences, nothing to hang him up to ponder about, it is all turning powerful ideas and meaningful statements into meaningless empty cliches. His words have no meaning unless he can back them up.
Kennedy and Reagan gave their speeches during the Cold War. MLK and JFK used words that were dangerous to use at the time. They were brave. Obama uses words to get applause and attention. McCain must have lost his "luster" in the prison camps in Vietnam, and he didn't roll on his friends there. John Kerry forgets that McCain actually came to his aid when he was taking fire from the SwiftBoats (much of which was in the strike zone). Well McCain went against his Party in an election year to speak out for Kerry. Kerry, who most likely is hoping to be Secretary of State forgets McCain's loyalty and does a hatchet job on him. Boston loves our Military and loyalty is valued. I've seen more honor and loyalty and true patriotism from McCain than Obama. Patriotism from McCain meaning he went out on a political limb to defend Kerry, he put his Country above politics.
Watching Obama supporters is like watching fans of professional wrestling. It is like they actually believe it's true. When one wrestler threatens another, that's not real, it is said for affect. Obama doesn't back up anthing he says, his words are meant to charge people up. I never thought people were that gullible.
I do think it is lame to bring up WW2 as you say, but what we're talking about is a delusion of the Europeans that we're this big ugly Nation (the Ugly American Myth). What on earth have we done so bad? Saddam was evil. Liberals see America as being evil. Why can't liberals open their eyes to evil in the world? When liberals see evil, they see George W. Bush. The guys that attacked the World Trade Center were evil. Lots and lots and lots of evil people applauded that attack. People were burning American Flags and parading when those buildings and people were attacked. Radical Islam is a real threat and many of these people hate us and want to do us harm. That's not fear mongering that is observation and observation is science.
Guys, Canada gets discounted drugs because our Nation pays premiums for perscription drugs and those premiums fuel research and development. Canada certainly gets the benefit from that research and development, but we pay the freight. Canada doesn't have to pay for a Military because they know that nobody will invade them because the United States will defend them. Do you know how much better our standard of living would be if another nation paid the freight for Military or R&D for drug research? Aren't even you liberals frustrated that we always have to pay the frieght? Aren't you upset that when they draft a Kyoto Protocol they expect the US to pay and pay and pay, and even pay for the United Nations that really doesn't gain traction in almost anything. Bush pretty much reminded them that sometimes doing nothing wasn't an organizing principle for the United Nations.
Further, they say the bottom 50% of our taxpayers only pay 2% of the freight. I think that that bottom 50% doesn't value the cost of doing business because they don't have to pay for it. When people don't pay for something they lose the value for what they are getting. Everyone should pay for our government services. Obama scares me because he makes people feel comfortable feeling entitled to government services. People don't want to hear that they need to stand up and be responsible for their actions, pay for their services and contribute.
Guess what liberal Massachusetts. Old School Democrats here were hard workers, they paid the freight, they built the schools and bridges and roads that we're in today, and they loved their men and women in the Military. Old school Democrats were also socially progressive and pioneers in idustry, but they were industrious not deadbeats that wanted things handed to them and sat around and manufactured delusions to keep from feeling guilty and squaring up to the fact that they were lazy deadbeats. Old school Democrats weren't afraid of hard work and they waited in line and paid their share, they were proud individuals and proud Americans. Those that came here took the time to learn the language and were proud to be in America. I'm not saying we did everything right, what they did to Japanese immigrants during WW2 was unAmerican and despicable.
If liberals could open their eyes and see the lazy deadbeat cockroaches that are expecting hand outs and see evil like child rapists, grandmother rapists (Deval Patrick's buddy Ben LaGuer), terrorists, and stop blaming the United States for everthing. Liberals will go out of their way to find an excuse for Ben LaGuer, or Patrick's aide that was caught with the young boy, and even erase from history that Saddam Hussein murdered tens of thousands of his own people. Of course Halliburton and BlackWater are taking in more than they should, but I don't think they would have done nearly as well with a John McCain in charge instead of Bush. If liberals used their compassion to align with the victims of evil and then added some sort of justice into the equation, I think they would see that the current leadership of their Party has drifted way too far left towards a socialistic state where people allow themselves to create delusions that are really an attempt to avoid the guilt that they don't pay their own way defend their own way of life, and someone else is. When they turn around and trash those that do pay the freight and defend them that is where you have to draw the line.
By the way, Ronald Reagan was hated in Europe. It was Ronald Reagan that put enough pressure on the Soviets to end the Cold War and bring Germany and much of Eastern Europe into a free democratic society.
a great note I stumbled on:
"I will represent your interest despite your inclinations and incur every addition to your resentment so that I may save you from the vassalage of your own delusions"
part of your civic duty isn't to always bemoan your Government, but to square up with some ugly facts of the world and purge out any delusions you may have formed as excuses for your guilt that you may have.
It's funny, people stopped being religious because religions ASKED SOMETHING OF YOU. How dare anybody ask anyone to behave in a certain way. People became so selfish and delusional when they didn't have to pay their own way. It was like a defensive force field that kept guilt out. I think the root of why a Deval Patrick will defend a Ben LaGuer instead of sympathizing for the family of the grandmother rapist is because society was holding Ben LaGuer RESPONSIBLE for his actions. How dare anyone be responsible for their actions. This is the reason why some don't like liberals, because they don't hold anyones feet to the fire and if you do hold someones feet to the fire, they'll complain. Deval Patrick said "Together We Can"; get casinos? prey on young boys? prey on poor minorities who are looking for mortgages? etc. Liberals are so dumb now that when a wolf puts on liberal clothing they can't even tell.
Ameriquest effectively had a "schoogie button", they had different operating rules for blacks and white applicants. If Deval Patrick cared about poor blacks he would have attacked an Ameriquest and had both fists flying like helicopter blades at them. Instead, he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars to play Judas and be the token minority and provide a political front so they could continue to abuse and take advantage of minorities. If liberals opened their eyes they would see that Deval Patrick was on the side of the predators, and when he opened the doors for casinos who wnat to prey on the weak, and the grandmother rapist that preyed on the weak, etc. you should be able to see a trend.
Maybe a dumb old Donkey without luster will remind you that these elites are wolves in sheeps clothing.
So Obama attracted a crowd of 200,000 in Berlin. Will Madonna attract more than 200,000? This morning's Today show featured a sign "Miley for President" among the crowd. Miley probably has even more fans than Madonna, especially among young people. Should we advise the Republican Party of nominate Miley to run against Obama? Or Obama can invite Miley to be his VP running mate. Then we'll have fully transformed the Presidential election into an American idol, Mr/Ms/Miss USA pageant.
Kerry is out of his mind. He is way out of line when he threw his support to Obama instead of the choice of Massachusetts voters, Hillary Clinton. This fall, we will have a chance to throw him out of office. Go O'Reilly!
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