As my husband and I listened to Obama’s speech in Berlin, it seemed to me that he was contradicting himself. He gave a rather lengthy history of the fall of communism and such, and then spent a few minutes making promises that sounded rather socialistic and communistic. Beyond that, he kept referring to the germans and the “people of the world,” just before he made One-World type comments. He’s not the elected president yet–he’s not even the official nominee for the D-ticket yet!–and he’s trying to shmooze with other countries. How does he think that affects his image?
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Obama’s image is bad from what this North Carolina tarheel see and hear! I will giving my vote to the one that I can trust and that is John McCain. I don’t agree with everything McCain says, but I hardy at all agree with Obama on anything!
What’s worse, we can’t trust him. There ought to be a tally of the times he’s changed his position or re-worded his “beliefs” to cater to his audience.
I think this is great for us. The Europeans have grown tired of the “cowboy antics of Bush.” We need someone who brings back the ideas of hope and promise to our image.
I don’t know what you can’t trust Obama on that you can trust McCain on? Just read this quote
“the mission which the American people supported and this Congress supported, in an overwhelming resolution, has been accomplished. The American people did not support the goals of nation-building, peacemaking, law and order and certainly not warlord funding. For us to get into nation-building, law and order, etc, I think is a tragic and terrible mistake.”
That wasn’t Barack Obama, it was John McCain in 1994 talking about Somalia. Sounds familiar doesn’t it?
Who said I trust McCain?
And who cares what the Europeans think? This isn’t Europe. It’s America. I want the president that I think will be a good leader for this country, not for Europe.
Well as much as isolationism might have worked in centuries past, we’re in an interdependent world. We have to care what the Europeans think or else we’ll end up trying to do everything ourselves. Didn’t work out too well for the Soviets.
I don’t think our choice of president is one that needs global approval.
Oh I agree, that’s why we’re the sole super power. However if you’re living in a neighborhood, it doesn’t hurt if your neighbors really like you.
A good thing to remember, but home and family ought to come first.
This is rather great. He is expressing what is called neighborly and social engaging. This doesn’t change his policies, views, or plans for America. His plans for America are more beneficial to Americans than of McCain’s. That is being a great president. Obama isn’t seeking global approval, but he’s getting it. Non-Americans majority just happens to like him. This doesn’t change his policies or pose a threat – this is general human courtesy and dare I say he’s just popular and liked. I do agree he sometimes fail to represent America patriotically offshore. But yet, this has nothing to do with his policies. This is no reason not to vote for Obama. I’m not going to tell you how to vote, but you should vote by the better policies and plans.
I agree with you in that you should not vote by popularity but by plans. However, I disagree that Obama’s plans are good. His ideas, his philosophies ring of socialism. Don’t you remember what happened to socialistic countries in the past?