Europe ♥ Obama

[Paulie Cee]

If case you needed any more proof this guy must be stopped...

Europe ♥ Obama
Guy Sorman

For continental elites, the candidate exemplifies “the good American.”

6 March 2008 - Europe’s media and left-wing intelligentsia see Barack Obama as the most appealing candidate for the U.S. presidency. He exemplifies what the French leftist magazine Le Nouvel Observateur calls “the America we like.” Most Europeans deny that they’re anti-American; they argue instead that there are two Americas—the good and the bad. Michael Moore is a good American, honored with the Cannes film festival’s highest prize in 2006 for his anti-Bush fantasy documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Other good Americans include Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Noam Chomsky, Barbra Streisand, and Philip Roth. Charlton Heston and Billy Graham are bad—as bad as McDonald’s—and so, of course, are President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Let us understand why, from the European perspective, Obama is good. First, he belongs to a minority. Europeans love minorities—when they live in the U.S. We tend not to like our own minorities, whom we willingly discriminate against on the basis of skin color or religion. Black Americans, however, are popular in Western Europe, since they play good music and revolt against the white establishment. For European leftists, whites in the U.S. are inclined to be Christian, racist, and imperialist. Whites started the war in Iraq. A white U.S. soldier is an imperialist; a black soldier is a victim, fighting in the army only because he is poor.

Not only is Obama black; he is also a pacifist, or nearly so, certainly when compared with the other presidential candidates. A pacifist U.S. leader becomes more than likable; he becomes “one of us.” Opposed to the war in Iraq and uninterested in confronting Iran, Obama is almost an honorary European, more civilized than the white, imperialist, trigger-happy Republicans. Obama has also been linked with Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan and former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, which suggests that he is not an unconditional ally of Israel. Israel is less popular than the Palestinians among the European intelligentsia, so Obama scores again.

Obama also favors universal health insurance, another Europe-like move in the right direction to free the bad Americans from their capitalist shackles. On capital punishment, a contentious issue between Europeans and Americans, Obama again strikes the right chord: he is a death-penalty abolitionist. His stance on this issue alone would make him a darling in Europe. But there’s more: Obama’s Christian faith seems murky. In Europe, we love secularism; at least Obama seems reserved about his faith.

The few European pundits who have closely examined Obama’s platform know that he advocates what sounds like protectionism. Economists and the business community in Europe have anxiety about a protectionist agenda, since Europe depends on free trade with the U.S. But European journalists and pundits tend to be anticapitalist and antiglobalist, so for them, Obama stands on the right side. The good American is expected neither to trade nor to fight terrorism. If more Americans were good, in fact, there would be no terrorists, as the Left in both Europe and the U.S. often contends.

Jean-David Levitte, former French ambassador to the U.S. and now foreign affairs advisor to President Nicolas Sarkozy, used to say that the only way for Europeans to influence American policy would be to have their own representative in the U.S. Senate. In fact, many Europeans believe that Europe should have a say in American elections, since the president is de facto leader of the Western world. And if they did have a vote, they would choose Barack Obama in a landslide.

Guy Sorman is the author of numerous books, including The Empire of Lies, forthcoming from Encounter. He is a contributing editor of City Journal and president of the publishing house Éditions Sorman.

Europe ♥ Obama by Guy Sorman, City Journal 6 March 2008

[ambler]

Actually, Paulie, he wins in US as well, according to polling data as recent as yesterday, in case you needed more proof as to why he must be stopped.

[Paulie Cee]

Originally Posted by ambler

Actually, Paulie, he wins in US as well, according to polling data as recent as yesterday, in case you needed more proof as to why he must be stopped.

Put up some dough bro. Use the money you won betting on those other poll-winning Presidents, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry.

[Dewitt Clinton]

Originally Posted by Paulie Cee

Put up some dough bro. Use the money you won betting on those other poll-winning Presidents, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry.

[Medfordian Slip]

Would France elect Obama? HELL NO.

[1994]

Maybe when Hussein talks to his brothers in Iran he can talk to them about this.

Hamas leader brags fighters learn from Iran's Revolutionary Guard
BY BILL EGBERT
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, March 10th 2008, 4:00 AM
A commander in the terrorist group responsible for last week's massacre of religious students at a Jerusalem yeshiva admitted its gunmen are training in Iran.
The official in Hamas, the Palestinian faction claiming responsibility for the murder of eight students at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva on Thursday, told the Sunday Times of London that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is training 150 Hamas fighters in a collaboration that started in 2005.
"We have sent seven 'courses' of our fighters to Iran," the Hamas commander, who did not reveal his name, told the London paper. "During each course, the group receives training that he will use to increase our capacity to fight."
He claimed militants have been crossing into Egypt and flying to Tehran via Syria ever since Israeli troops pulled out of the Gaza Strip two years ago.
"They come home with more abilities that we need," said the Hamas commander, "such as high-tech capabilities, knowledge about land mines and rockets, sniping and fighting tactics like the ones used by Hezbollah."
He said that with Iranian help, Hamas has already developed a new generation of land mines called the Shawas 4.
As these chilling revelations reverberated across the Atlantic, more than 100 demonstrators gathered in Manhattan to denounce the targeting of civilians and mourn the yeshiva victims.
"It's one thing to fight another combatant," Rabbi Avi Weiss told the crowd. "It's another to go into a yeshiva to murder students studying the word of God."
Jeffery Trepp, 19, a New Yorker who joined the U.S. Army at 17, was there in his fatigues, a yarmulke over his crewcut. "When I'm done with my time in the Army here, I plan to join the Israel Defense Forces," Trepp said. "I want to go over there and protect my brothers and sisters in Israel."