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Chad MacInnes | September 26, 2008
Or, are they “projecting” a bit of buyers’ remorse from their excessive secularization and collective devolution into socialist nanny states and want us to become just like them? Shortly after the Republican National Convention and the shift in momentum, European socialists and socialists throughout the world were openly lamenting the obliteration of Obama’s lead in the polls by the McCain-Palin ticket. There is a rising clamor abroad, you might say, incredulous that Americans could possibly make such a grave mistake as to NOT elect Obama. After all, polling data in many European countries show that Obama would be elected there in landslide victories, and we all know how “progressive” they are now, don’t we?
In fact, now there are not-so-veiled threats of pending severe bouts of “anti-Americanism” emanating from the four corners of the globe. OK, it’s mostly leftists trying to disguise themselves as non-leftists, but whatever. An article in Britain’s Guardian UK online tries to make that point as if to scare Americans in to electing Obama’s corrupt socialist political machine in November. The article is entitled, “The world’s verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for: An America that disdains Obama for his global support risks turning current anti-Bush feeling into something far worse.” Are you shaking in your boots yet? Good. I’m not either. It gets better, though. Here’s the first sentence: “The feeling is familiar. I had it four years ago and four years before that: a sinking feeling in the stomach. It’s a kind of physical pessimism which says: ‘It’s happening again. The Democrats are about to lose an election they should win – and it could not matter more.’” I’m guessing that is the Euro-chic version of Chris Matthews’ “leg tingle.” How very suave…
After several paragraphs bashing Sarah Palin and making McCain out to be George W. Bush Jr., the author Jonathan Freedland writes this gem: “Remember, this is a woman who once addressed a church congregation, saying of her work as governor – transport, policing and education – ‘really all of that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God.’” Remember this folks: cultured, enlightened and properly progressive European politicians would never address a church of any kind, nor entertain the thought of acknowledging God in a public venue, because Europe acknowledges no God – only Allah. And don’t you soon forget it, or they’ll put out a Fatwah on you.
But here is what is probably the best reason NOT to vote for Barack Obama on November 4: “But what of the rest of the world? This is the reaction I fear most. For Obama has stirred an excitement around the globe unmatched by any American politician in living memory. Polling in Germany, France, Britain and Russia shows that Obama would win by whopping majorities, with the pattern repeated in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. If November 4 were a global ballot, Obama would win it handsomely. If the free world could choose its leader, it would be Barack Obama.” (emphasis mine)
And if McCain-Palin win we can expect the cold-shoulder from our comrades in Europe “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.”
In a poll of 22,000 of our fellow global citizens, “49 per cent across the 22 countries preferred Senator Obama compared with 12 per cent preferring Senator McCain.”
I bear no ill will to our friends in Europe or anywhere else, for that matter – at least not toward those who are not trying to kill us. The problem that the rest of the world is suffering from is that the rest of the world is not America. The do not understand us, they do not think like us, they can neither conceive of nor truly grasp what makes one “American.” They never will.
We are different from the rest of the world. Always have been. Always will be. Most of the time we are willing to work well with others, but sometimes we find it necessary to go it alone, regardless of world opinion, because at the end of the day those 22,000 people polled in Moscow, and Berlin, and London, and Paris, and Khartoum, and Beijing, and Singapore, and Seoul, and Beruit, and Gaza, and Amman, and Istanbul, and Riyadh are not Americans.
The Europeans cannot understand us because they have sacrificed their Liberty for comfort and security – and obtained neither. Europe has devolved by choice into a continent rife with socialism of the kind that would make Karl Marx proud. They have become one giant bureaucracy that dictates to every aspect of daily life. This is something that, when it comes right down to it, is inconceivable and unconscionable to Americans. For all of our differences and eccentricities, the one thing we Americans all have in common is that we cherish our Liberty; and, even though there are those among us who even now are misled, misguided and deluded into thinking that we can achieve a benevolent government run welfare state to care for our every need, provide our security, bring a lasting peace to the rest of the world and still retain their Liberty, we respectfully make our case, the case for Liberty, and try to enlighten them as to why they are wrong. That is the American way, a way that other peoples cannot understand.
Many have come to understand that socialistic government programs must by their very nature as dictated by the purpose for which they are created, encroach upon the Liberty of the people. Government authority and Liberty are diametrically opposed forces, irreconcilable except for law. A free people cannot relinquish only “a little” Liberty; a people is either free or it is not.
With all due respect, the continent of Europe has forsaken Liberty for the vain promises of arbitrary government authority, and it is failing them. Europe is in decline, economically, morally, socially, militarily, politically and in any other way one can imagine, and it has been in decline for decades. When one trusts in government, any government – no matter how well designed – to fulfill roles never intended for government one is bound to be disappointed. The Europeans want Obama because his vision for the future is Europe, and they understand that. They revile resistance to such “enlightened” positions as radical or extremist because they have become so secularized by their own government systems that they cannot understand Americans’ willingness to fight and die for such things as going to church on Sunday.
Europe chose socialism and is now paying the price, and that price is the decline and ultimately the death of nationhood and liberty. That is where Obama’s vision will lead us if we allow him to. So, if you really need another reason NOT to vote for Obama on November 4, just look to Europe.
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When you become a woman who won’t have a right to choose what you do with your body, then your opinion will matter to me.
In addition, while you cloak yourself in your “Christian Blanket” remember that Chist loved all people and mandated that you should be your brothers keeper, even if he needs you to put your hand in your wallet to help him up. I guess I missed the part in the bible that said “But only if he looks like you”
Wow, Marti! It must be a slow day over at the Daily Kos, Eh? When you people start acknowledging that that Fouding Fathers were not socialists and that the Constitution of the United States actually was intended to convey some ideas and principles to be handed down through the generations, then YOUR opinion will matter to me. If your global candidate wins on Tuesday then maybe you can get a job with the FCC prosecuting those of us who write on the right. Take care, Comrade!
Marti on October 31st, 2008 8:57 am
“When you become a woman who won’t have a right to choose what you do with your body, then your opinion will matter to me.”
I’m sorry marti, but as a woman myself that statement shows your own lack of thought. There is no carte blanche “right to choose what to do with your body” ever implied in any reasonable document penned on liberty. Rights of one are always bound by the fact that they not infringe on the right of another.
So that means if you want to, say, deprive a child of its right to life under the auspicies of “choosing” what to do with your own body, it does not fly.
You speak not for women. So do not try.
“In addition, while you cloak yourself in your “Christian Blanket” remember that Chist loved all people and mandated that you should be your brothers keeper,”
You mean like Barack Obama has not done? How bout that brother and aunt living in squalor?
suck choices are to be made freely and not by government coercion. In fact, early Christians if you would read your history rejected the Roman welfare state.
“even if he needs you to put your hand in your wallet to help him up. I guess I missed the part in the bible that said “But only if he looks like you”"
I guess you haven’t read your own Bible lately. Again, voluntary charity is what Christ taught. He never said let the state rule your life.
Like Obama you are just another false Christian draping yourself in the cloak of Christianity to make yourself feel better.
I do not possess the political knowledge to properly describe what I feel from reading your article, suffice to say I feel only great sadness that I do not live in America and that I am not an American. Such purpose, vision and freedom. I live in Europe, where all my actions are judged and I must live under the rules of people that wish to destroy my liberties and freedoms. God bless,
Joe Lloyd
Joe Lloyd has recently been transferred to the Ministry of Truth for reeducation. Europe apologises for his misleading outburst and would like to make it clear that we are all perfectly happy and free.
Europe Prevails!
Allahu Akbar!