Comments on: It's About America, Obama

National Review: The Ill. Senator Naively Thinks These Are Necessarily Shared And Natural Human Practices

[standlee5]

With all due respect, I also don''t believe the world did anything to save Berlin, just as it did nothing to save the Rwandans or the Iraqis under Saddam - or will do anything for those of Darfur; it was only the U.S. Air Force that risked war to feed the helpless of Berlin as it saved the Muslims of the Balkans."

good point.

[standlee5]

it is the world, not the U.S., that needs to listen most. In this regard I would have preferred Sen. Obama of mixed ancestry to have begun with %u201CIn the recent tradition of African-American Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice,%u201D rather than the less factual, %u201CI don''t look like the Americans who''ve previously spoken in this great city.%u201D


Yeah, really. great article.

[tibu987]

What an absolutely stupid article.
It sounds to me as this writer had no original thoughts so he made up a story.

This articles simplific premise shows me a writer who, having no intellectual material for a story fabricated one based on Obama''s vist and speech in Berlin from his Republican point of view.

As it turned out, the visit was an great success and Obama''s words electrified and was a resouding success with the crowd in Berlin.

Isn''t this precisely the sort of president this country needs? One not only aware of our domestic problems but with the ability to re-unite us with allies in Europe.

Sounds like a winner to me. Obama would be a breath of fresh air in Washington and the world.

[glenncinca-2009]

Oblama is a hyperinflated apologist. What McCain should do is present his own speech to the world, extolling America''s virtues, similar to the ones you have described. Now THAT would be a memorable speech!

[kazoodan]

More twaddle from the Never-ending Republican Organ.
While it''s ridiculous to hope that the whole world should love us, it would nice if some of the world actually liked us again.

[veteran188]

Obama is the best hing that has happened to America for many years,
pray that McBush becomes a human being and just steps down quietly

[chrisbieber]

Mr Hansen and the rest of the neocons who have trashed Constitutinal law and US Soveriegnty in a way that gives Obama and HIS globalist agenda a run for the money(YOURS)....

The exalting of the Executive Branch and the trashing of Congressional Responsibility of Declaring War is now a "conservative" and "Republican" issue....

thanks guys.....

Your sometimes blatant sometimes passive SHILLING for McMadman and HIS globalism is quite pathetic and too expected.

hypocracy and globalism is a bipartisan game where we all lose...literally and figuratively.

Thanks

[samthetvcat]

---"The good thing about Obama, or bad depending on your point of view, is that he''''s making the Bush administration look better all the time."---
Posted by magnetrack

omg, that is until Surgie McNasty opens his yapper of outrage and starts barking about how he singlehandedly saved the world from armageddon thanks to his surge. Because nobody can tell whether he''s making that claim based on Shiites arming the Sunnis (or was that Shiites, Sen. Lieberman), and on Iraq having a border with Pakistan (or was that Iran), and on the Awakening happening after the surge (or was that before)?

omg, is there like no happy medium? :(

[magnetrack]

The good thing about Obama, or bad depending on your point of view, is that he''s making the Bush administration look better all the time.

[samthetvcat]

---"Perhaps conflict-resolution theory posits there are no villains, only misunderstandings; but I think military history suggests that culpability exists"---

I''m SO reluctant to admit NRO has a point, but after hearing a taste of Barack''s negotiation style with regards to Iran I do get the sense they''re likely to see him as just a bothersome flea to be ticked off their back.

The one thing the NRO and the GOP do have over Dems is that they''re keenly in touch with the dark side of humanity . . . personal experience, perhaps! :p

[wogerwabbit]

Is America the shining light of democracy we were all raised to believe in or are we barbarians plundering the world for oil? That''s the choice we face in November. I choose the light.

[dmgenet]

All about America? Bush''s decisions were all about America? Does this writer at NRO have big ears and heehaw loudly when stubborn.

Please JackA$$, a treatise on how GW Bush has worked FOR America. Please, enlighten us all. My guess is that most of the top earning 3% would agree with you.

[dmgenet]

Utopian...No child Left Behind and then underfunding it. Utopian...changing Medicare payment for medicene and then underfunding it. Utopian...Starting a war and actually believing that we would be hailed as heroes and all would be well. This includes making little to no plans for an occupation. That is stu-topian.

[dmgenet]

NRO hits it on the head again. Bush''s head. Start a war and then lower taxes for the wealthiest. NO president has ever lowered taxes during a war. You simply can''t do it. The Republicans don''t say things utopian they just try to acccomplish utopian conservative ideals. Like setting up a democracy in an Islamic country. Pure balls. What is amazing is that it would also be genius if the idea weren''t so stupid! Democracy and Theocracy are a tough sell in a country ripe with civil war.

[rayuk-2009]

More stupid stuff from NRO. They think everyone is as stupid as they are.....sad

[paris1969]

excellent article ... I was disturbed by Obama''s statement that emphasized his race, as if race alone, can make someone different or more understanding of global issues. The rest of his speech was his same old tired rhetoric that he has absolutely demonstrated nothing in his life so far to show that he can live up to it.

[brittanicus-2009]

We must Leave ICE & US Marshall''s, police departments alone, to search out illegal lawbreakers, and remove them from the country. The simple fact that you violated the law, such as illegal aliens who worked for the the meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa. Americans have become the ''CASH-COW'' for anybody who can break through our border.It should be the parasite employers who should be paying for their financial needs? They must be deported to wherever they came from. It cannot be ignored? Democrat leader Speaker Nancy Pelosi has severed funding for the original border fence. Sen. Robert Menendez is blocking the E-Verify program, that locates illegal aliens working under bogus social security numbers and this tainted lawmaker wants to rescind the federal program.

Then Either Obama, McCain will give us another AMNESTY, which will cost in retirement for newly legalized people already here, 2 trillion dollars from your pocket. But nobody has seemed to think of the next waves of people smuggling themselves into America in the years to come...? Join NUMBERSUSA to fight back against corrupt politicians and their ilk, and pass the Federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088)

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[ddaryl1]

LMAO... the sad state of the neo-con pimp...

the majority of Americans want a major change in direction, wether you agree with it or not is irrelevant. Majority wins, and the majority looks at the republican party as the party of very bad people

[hungry1968]

Oh, this was written by the National Review Online?

I''m glad I saw that before I bothered to read this neo con spew!

[pvperson]

What a wonderful lecture on post WWII America from a man born in 1953. From reading his words, you would ALMOST think he had personal knowledge on WWII, Korea, Viet Nam and the Middle Easter Wars and knew what he was talking about. But, alas, he''s just another neo-con peddling his Fascist wares.