Obama Really Is (Ted) Kennedyesque

Europe Is As Racist As America

This for the comment from Michael of XX. As an ex pat American who has lived in Asia and Europe that despite the deep seated racial problems of Americam, Europe in my opinion is much worse. Unfortunately it is just a more deep seated and firmly entrenched system of racism. I saw serious racial problems in every country I either visited or lived in. Racist police treatment, 0% racial integration in employment, and housing, and 0% racial participation in the political process. Furthermore America has a better immigration program than any European country.

As bad as America can be it did not turn its back on an entire culture while the Nazi's murdered 6,000,000 Jews plus the all the other people the Nazi's killed! Do not fool your self the Europeans willingly capitulated to the mass murder of an entire race of people. Europeans have NO idea what civil rights or human rights truly means although they pay polite lip service to this topic. Both World Wars have been started by Europeans, The international slave trade started by white Europeans, The internatinal drug trade started by white Europeans, more acts of genocide of cruelty to human beings have been purpotrated by white Europeans, and dont forget this whole Colonial imperialism thing started by the racist and unelected "Monarchies". Lets also examine that whole monarchy thing.

How moronic it is to still pledge your allegiance to a person as the unelected head of your state simply by the luck of birth! It is the height of racist, elitist, anti-democratic and unprincipled value system which still dominates our world. Europe blames America for the World's problems yet takes no responsibility for their part in the creation of the current world order. Hmmmm you must be French.

John Holden @ May 07, 2008 15:17:54 PM

Race

As a European, it is interesting (and also sobering) to see, how large the racial gap still is in the United Stated 40 years after the (racially motivated) assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.

In a world that has never been as unified and globalized as today, the race issue still seems to cut right through the middle of your country, and it seems to enable a less than mediocre politician like Senator John McCain to open the door to presidency. Although people feel that President George W. Bush (and his aides) have pulled the image of the USA to an alltime low, they are still not openminded enough to accept a not-100%-white american as president.

A president McCain would be a desastrous message for the world, and this would clearly put the leading position of the United States at stake.

Michael @ May 07, 2008 07:03:07 AM

john of MA

Man, with a record like that under his belt, Bill could have single handedly been sent into Iraq 5 years ago and we could have saved over 4,000 US troops lives and this whole thing would have been finished in a week or two!! I wonder why no one else, besides you, never knew any of this info. You are an amazing researcher!! I bet you get a job offer from Nation Enquirer any day now...keep up the good work guy!! (come to think of it, I think I saw him in the grassy knoll in Dallas back in '63...I think you may be on to something!!)

Jeanne of TX @ May 07, 2008 04:09:34 AM

Hey, fred of ca.

you know, no matter how many times you angrily type "unelectable" in big capital letters, obama is gonna win the white house; if you don't believe me, read the papers (or have someone read them to you), look at the myriad polls, and feel the fury of the american people for being lied to and sniggered at by a spoiled brat frat boy who had the white house dropped into his privileged lap by his daddy's friends on the supreme court. in 2004 there were enough numbskulls like you around to have swallowed the dog-and-pony show about keeping america safe from the terrorists by invading a country that hadn't attacked us on 9/11 or any other day. i guess the flag lapel pins, "mission accomplished" banners, a childish flap about flag burning, and the rattling sabers of cowboy diplomacy helped take you in. oh, and bush's devout Christianity must have impressed the hell out of you. i was baptized a catholic and have gone to church for many years; i don't seem to recall Christ saying "Blessed are the warmongers"; "it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it would for a homeless man to enter the kingdom of heaven"; or even "Judge plenty, lest ye be tolerant." maybe bush is talking about some other guy named Christ. gosh, i had no idea there were two of them!

calm down, fred. when obama wins the white house, the scary colored people are not going to come out to your house, burn a cross on your lawn and lynch you (you know, like the ku klux klan did), all the while shouting "God DAMN america!"

you'll be perfectly safe, honey. you might even get health insurance you can afford!

albino4obama of NY @ May 06, 2008 15:54:11 PM

"raising taxes" makes you sound ignorant

anyone that has studied economics knows that raising taxes hurts the economy in the long run. that is a fact. so, if you are for higher taxes please say "I want to hurt people because I feel they make more money than me." it will make you sound smarter.

of AL @ May 06, 2008 15:35:15 PM

Ahem.

I just want to respond to two points you made:

<blockquote>"For instance, it would be so easy for Obama to come out for a big cut in the corporate tax rate."</blockquote>

I think you might've missed the memo, but we currently have historically low corporate revenue collections. As a result, corporate taxes make up less of our gross domestic product than ever before. Corporate income tax revenues are lower in the United States than in most European countries. And how has all this worked out? We're in a recession and the Euro is thriving.

By the way, contrary to your claims that Obama wants to increase taxes on labor, Obama has proposed tax cuts for lower and middle class families. This is true, even if you stick your fingers in your ears, close your eyes, and shout "he wants to raise taxes, he wants to raise taxes, he wants to raise taxes."

Cameron of CA @ May 06, 2008 14:48:11 PM

Obama Lies

Here's an example of how Obama lies:

"More On That False Quote in the Obama TV Ad" from:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/more-on-that-fa.html

Greg of IL @ May 06, 2008 14:27:53 PM

You are wrong!

To Jodi of MI:

Senator Clinton is not for socialized medicine and her health care plan is not a free government insurance. Corporations will continue to insure their employees, the uninsured will be offered appropriate and affordable insuranse plans, and the poor will continue to use Medicaid as they use it now, but with her plan everyone will be insured. Mitt Romney, the former Massachusets' governor provided every citizen of his state with health care, similar to Senator Clinton's. This is not a free health care as it is in all developed western countries, which are not socialist countries. Medicare is called a socialized program, and it doesn't mean socialism at all. I'm a Gerontologist and tend to know the difference.

Mimi of IL @ May 06, 2008 14:27:11 PM