By EURSOC Two
September
2008
Thursday,
September 11, 2008
The
ANNOTICO Report
While
some Americans might be prone to say "thank you for your advice, in this
current Presidential Election, but we need to choose the candidate we believe
is best for
Those have
forgotten that we Americans claim, and not unjustifiably, The US as Leader
of the Free World, and even more, The World Super Power, so WE are in actuality
Voting for the Leader of the World, and all the world
They
are as disappointed in Bush as the US is, with his Cowboy, We know Best, - You
are either With us or Against Us, - and Ignoring Warnings about Evidence
re Iraq - The Go it Alone Attitude - and, then when Europe is Right,
and Bush is Wrong, - Bush Chides Europe for Not Bearing their
Part of the US Arrogant Mistake - and when they see the US building
Coalitions, but then Ignoring their Opinions (UN, NATO, G-8, etc) it sees
US dedication to democracy as "empty" rhetoric.
Vote
Obama - Or Else
By EURSOC Two
September
2008
They
just can
EURSOC
will offer a prize to any reader who can think of a better way to energise the Republican base.
First things
first. Freedland is partly right, at
least in his claim that Barack Obama would be the preferred choice of pretty
much every other nation in the world, had they any say in how Americans voted.
It
An opinion poll
published by the BBC confirmed this, showing that the vast majority of voters in
22 nations polled preferred Obama over his rival, John McCain. While this
isn
"If the
free world could choose its leader, it would be Barack Obama," writes Freedland.
In recent weeks,
EURSOC has spotted Obama t-shirts on a pair of suburban racailles
outside Paris; a shaggy-haired Italian student; and a street busker in
One can
But
back to Freedland. "The world
He recites the
reasons Obama is favoured over McCain:
It could provoke
a "deeply unpleasant" response from abroad, he argues: "Suddenly
Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is with not only one
ruling clique, but Americans themselves. For it will have been the
American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a
once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start - a fresh start the world is
yearning for."...
Freedland admits that if it isn
But what if
Americans do the unthinkable? What if, like a stripper completing a fan dance,
"If
Americans reject Obama, they will be sending the clearest possible message to
the rest of us - and, make no mistake, we shall hear it," concludes Freedland.
Well. Americans
might consider "they
They might argue
that, had critical Europeans looked closer at McCain, they would have
discovered that he is hardly the Bush Reloaded
his critics have painted him as, and that a McCain Presidency is only
likely to be confrontational if
But the
likelihood of any American responding to threats from Guardian journalists
claiming to represent The Rest Of The World is about
the same as Sarah Palin coming first in a
plait-your-own-armpit-hair competition organised by
Hackney Women
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