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Author: robotree Posted: 23 months 3 days ago
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Speaking as a non-American I can tell you some actions of the US do warrant some anger, for example your foreign policy is quite offensive to much of the world, however to be fair it's very easy to criticize a world power and assume that since you guys are such a powerful nation, you should also be perfect, and your mistakes are amplified on the world stage. I think the world would benefit by being able to be angry with the US, but not its citizens.

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Author: drfclef Posted: 22 months 9 days ago
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When speaking of foreign or domestic policy, intervention always leads to unintended consequences which call for more intervention and so on (Ludwig von Mises).

No doubt, the US has a role to play on the world stage as the most powerful nation, but that role should never include forcing its will on any other nation for its own gains nor should it include entangling alliances that gain us resentment from others. Our role would be best played as an example of power, freedom and liberty but above all else, humility.

Your comment is right on robotree, thank you.

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Author: esmith28 Posted: 23 months 15 days ago
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we need to stay out of other peoples business

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Author: MARSHALL Posted: 23 months 16 days ago
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America is always the frist to help any other country in the world when they need it
but we never see much help when we need it

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Author: BrianShepherd Posted: 24 months 18 days ago
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Author: angeni Posted: 24 months 29 days ago
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Why is it that other countries can have policies that are accepted, but no us. You can't please everybody. I think we should continue doing what we do regardless of what anyone says. We are the most generous country, that's what they say anyway, and we are always one of the first, if not the first, to come to anyones aid.

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Author: drfclef Posted: 22 months 9 days ago
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"..we should continue doing what we do regardless of what anyone says."

That right there is the exact mindset that is gaining us all this resentment.

What is so wrong with being both powerful and humble?

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Author: EastCoastKid Posted: 25 months 12 hours ago
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Where's you're people's loyalty, love it or leave it.

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Author: Silverhawk13 Posted: 23 months 17 days ago
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It's BECAUSE I love America that I care about our standing in the world. When Bush took office, we had record surpluses, a good economy, and the world loved us. Now, after 8 years of cowboy diplomacy, Bush has squandered all of that. We have lost our respect and standing as a world leader. Denying that it is justified will not bring it back. We have to recognize the problem and change what we are doing.

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Author: EastCoastKid Posted: 23 months 14 days ago
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Even before Bush, much of the world hated us

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Author: bugland Posted: 23 months 11 days ago
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it is because i love my country that i believe it is worth changing. the "love it or leave it" philosophy is not patriotic. it is simply blind.

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Author: EastCoastKid Posted: 23 months 10 days ago
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change the country?

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Author: Debra Posted: 25 months 10 hours ago
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Alot of it's envy. How much of an immigration problem do those countries have compared to the US?

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Author: TampaSurvey Posted: 25 months 1 hour ago
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The immigration problems in Europe are very serious, especially with refugees from the Middle East. Have you been to Paris in the last 10 years?

I would say that their immigration problems are more serious than ours.

This neo-con line about envy - "They hate us for our freedoms." is pure propaganda. They hate us because our policies are designed to keep them in poverty. We support right wing dictators like Saddam Hussein and the Shah of Iran for years. Then we act surprised when their people don't like us.

We arm the Taliban and al Qaeda when it suits us.

And then we have the audacity to claim that they hate us out of envy?

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Author: poisonpill Posted: 25 months 23 hours ago
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That arrogant lack of humility is right up at the top of the list. Another example of a certain segment of our society that insists on telling, and even forcing, everyone else how they should be living.

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Author: Lin Posted: 25 months 1 day ago
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Until Bush is out of office, much of the world will continue to dislike the US. This is totally on Bush's shoulders. As far as Obama goes, who cares. He is not a breath of fresh air, only a con man. I doubt the Germans really care who we elect. As long as Bush is gone, that is what counts. I don't think McCain is another Bush, but he is republican and that is a problem.

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Author: poisonpill Posted: 25 months 23 hours ago
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Gee, the Germans were smart enough to back several U.S. presidents in order to keep the USSR at bay. Ronny Raygun gets lots of credit, not much deserved, for bringing down the Berlin Wall as well as the Soviet Union. You don't think the German people have a few fond memories of him? John F. Kennedy made quite an impression on the staid German folks by making the effort to claim himself a Berliner. This country has been staunch allies with Germany since the end of hostilities in 1945.

Out of curiousity, since you do't like either the Rep or the Dem, are you voting third party this November?

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Author: drfclef Posted: 22 months 9 days ago
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To all of you who are going back and forth about whether or not this is all Bush's fault and how great or horrible Obama or McCain is going to be for our reputation...

This growing resentment of the US goes back much further than the past 8 years, Bush has only made it that much worse along with every other president we've had since WWII who have ALL perpetuated this policy of interventionism.

Neither Obama nor McCain are going to fix it.. all I've heard from either of them is where and when they're going to intervene next. Neither is talking about any fundamental change to our foreign policy in a return to non-interventionism.. the strategy we followed to become the most powerful nation, and the policy intended by the Founders.

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Author: ooblygoobly Posted: 25 months 1 day ago
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I would like to say thank you to the main stream media for portraying to the world, how awful, awful the United States is. So Thank you. We are a free nation and a super power in the world. But the main stream media day in and day out, how bad America is.

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Author: Freedom4 Posted: 25 months 1 day ago
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I agree completely.

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Author: poisonpill Posted: 25 months 23 hours ago
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Too bad neither of you can acknowledge that there is, in fact, some level of hostility towards us that we somewhat deserve. Your utter lack of any sense of responsibility for something you refuse to admit exists, even if in a very small way, is one of the reasons other people are pissed at us. I can't wait to see you guys flip-flop on this as soon as Obama takes office. Then all of a sudden that world-hatred of us will be Obama's and the Dems' fault. Hah.

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Author: TampaSurvey Posted: 25 months 1 day ago
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It is sad. We used to be a nation that others looked up to for many things, including moral leadership. Bush/McCain and the Republicans have destroyed that.

It was a breath of fresh air seeing Obama in front of 200,000 Germans waving American flags.

We can reestablish our greatness in the eyes of the world and in the eyes of our own citizens.

We also need to rid our government of all of the Ted Stevens in Congress.

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Author: changetowhat Posted: 25 months 11 hours ago
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....and the world will thank us when obie is president and the polar ice caps start to refreeze and the oceans recede; the sick are suddenly healed when they look upon the child of the rising sun.... we'll all hold hands and sing Kumbaya as rainbows shoot form his fingertips...can't wait!

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Author: poisonpill Posted: 25 months 22 hours ago
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There ya go again. Nothing positive, just derisive, insulting, and grossly childish whining. Yeah, your guy really sucks and we all hate him (both of them, dubya and McSame) so your best point is to denigrate Obama. I'm so sorry your life sucks that badly, but how about a comment that doesn't reveal quite so much of your utter disdain for the rest of us? Or, in words tantrum-throwing babies could understand, fuck off.

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Author: enoch Posted: 24 months 17 days ago
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But changtowhat has a point. That is the type of unfounded hysteria that surrounds those that support him; completely unsupported with any basis in fact. He just fits whatever hole you want to fill.

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Author: TampaSurvey Posted: 24 months 17 days ago
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He has no point. There is no unfounded hysteria, other than the wonderful feeling one gets when considering that Bush will be gone, Cheney will be gone and we will have an intelligence in the White House again.

It really is exhilarating to contemplate the end of the Republican era.

There will be no miracles. Obama will be tasked with fixing all that the neo-cons have broken in America during the past 8 years.

It will be a lot like al Malaki's job in Iraq after Saddam or Germany after Hitler. We have to restore the Constitution, respect for education and science. respect for the environment and for children and health. Respect for the truth. There is a lot to do and Obama is just a good man, no saint or miracle worker. But that will be enough.

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Author: changetowhat Posted: 24 months 17 days ago
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I've seen news footage of how your "good man" took care of the poor residents on the south side of Chicago! With he help of Rezco and the likes the world should respect us in no time....soon as Rezco and cronies can make it out of jail !!! Yeah.... what a good man he is. Larry Sinclair will vouch for his goodness too. Perhaps the ghost of Donald Young will vouch for his goodness as well.

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Author: TampaSurvey Posted: 24 months 17 days ago
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I guess where Rezko messed up is that he should have been a Republican. Then yher Attorney General would be saying that not every instance of a broken law is a crime. And then Bush could pardon him. And, like Cindy McCain his crimes could all be swept under the rug.

And, maybe Rezko will get to share a cell with Ted Stevens, the architect of the Drill in ANWR project.

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Author: changetowhat Posted: 24 months 17 days ago
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Hey, I'm not the one claiming someone's a "good man". Most politicians have baggage they'd rather not have aired... it's just that BO's baggage is especially full and dirty. If voters could overlook the fact that he's a Kenyan citizen, but offered a forged American birth certificate. they would still have to deal with his associations with racists (Rev. Wright), Marxists (Frank Marshall Davis), terrorists (William Ayers), political minipulators (Axelrod). Then if voters could even overlook that they'd still have to get over the fact that he has no track record in office because he didn't have the guts to take a stand and vote on most issues, opting instead to vote "present", and his habit of shifting policy by the hour, in attempts to ride the political winds every time they shift. They'd also have to overlook his audacious ego and that's no small mountain to climb. Yet, there's one more very important item that simply can't be overlooked. He has no experience in leading the most powerful nation in the free world. He is a junior senator who admitted himself that he would not be experienced enough to run for the presidency in '08 and said in no uncertain terms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj6syUD1I4U
(watch it for yourself- from his own lying mouth)
that he would not run, yet here he is. In our face -- the nightmare that just won't go away!

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Author: enoch Posted: 24 months 17 days ago
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Mostly, you're still pissed Gore lost.

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Author: TampaSurvey Posted: 24 months 17 days ago
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No, I am elated that Obama will bring an end to the Bush/McCain era that started when the Republicans on the Supreme Court shredded the Constitution in order to put their stooge in the White House.

And he is a stooge and they did spit on the flag when they tore up the Constitution.


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Author: changetowhat Posted: 24 months 17 days ago
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Sorry, wasn't aware that I was supposed to be addressing "tantrum-throwing babies", but if that's what you're asking for I'll try to use simpler words and phrases. My life is actually pretty good and I would like to keep it that way, therefore a vote for Senator McCain is my privilege. I would like to know however, why BO supporters are entitled to foist (force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably) their opinion on everyone complete with obscenities and insults; yet Supporters of any other candidate are called, "derisive, insulting, and grossly childish whiners" when they exercise their same right to free speech?

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Author: TampaSurvey Posted: 24 months 17 days ago
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Hey, last week that good Christian Republican, MissJan, threatened to "bitch slap" me, if she could find out where I live. Freedom4 tells people that I, and all Democrats, like to kill babies. Others use terrible and disgusting language on a continuual basis. The Democrats on this forum have nothing on the Republicans when it comes to invective.

Look at the leader of your party. He thinks nothing of joking about rape, of telling the most horrendous and degrading "jokes" and calling his wife the worst names in public. Obama, on the other hand, is a gentleman. McCain is setting a horrendous precedent for the Republican party in terms of civility. Just think how much worse it will be if he ends up trying to lead and mislead the country.

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Author: changetowhat Posted: 24 months 17 days ago
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Yup, "politics is ugly business" alright! The great thing about this country is that you're entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine. See you at the polls! we'll see then who's the better man (or woman!).

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Author: enoch Posted: 24 months 16 days ago
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changetowhat said:
....and the world will thank us when obie is president and the polar ice caps start to refreeze and the oceans recede; the sick are suddenly healed when they look upon the child of the rising sun.... we'll all hold hands and sing Kumbaya as rainbows shoot form his fingertips...can't wait!
then you said:

"He has no point. There is no unfounded hysteria, other than the wonderful feeling one gets when considering that Bush will be gone, Cheney will be gone and we will have an intelligence in the White House again.

It really is exhilarating to contemplate the end of the Republican era.

There will be no miracles. Obama will be tasked with fixing all that the neo-cons have broken in America during the past 8 years.

It will be a lot like al Malaki's job in Iraq after Saddam or Germany after Hitler. We have to restore the Constitution, respect for education and science. respect for the environment and for children and health. Respect for the truth. There is a lot to do and Obama is just a good man, no saint or miracle worker. But that will be enough."

and imediately after that:

"No, I am elated that Obama will bring an end to the Bush/McCain era that started when the Republicans on the Supreme Court shredded the Constitution in order to put their stooge in the White House.
And he is a stooge and they did spit on the flag when they tore up the Constitution."

When you put it that way, he sounds like a mirical worker to me.

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Author: KNOWITALL Posted: 24 months 2 days ago
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Poisonpill, you sound angry, you probably own a gun, are very religous and you certainly have antipathy towards those who think different than yourself. You liberals sound like temper-tantrum throwing teenagers who accuse their wiser and smarter parents of being mean when it is for your own good. Nobody ever said that living in this country was easy. It will kick your ass if you don't go get it-period. Obama and his wife sound like they went out and worked hard to get where they are, why don't they teach others how to succeed instead of their enabling victimization by this wicked country. This country is great. Home of the brave, not panderer to the pussy!!!!!

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Author: giacomino Posted: 25 months 1 day ago
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Anger is against this administration not America.... we have been hoodwinked...
Hopefully voters have learn a lesson from
the dubya attitude... all nations need partners... now get out of Iraq so we
don't lose another american life in a war
of choice... what were we thinking to allow
dubya and congress to do this? Are voters
that stupid..? Incredible that americans sit
on their hands and let these pols put us
in such a stupid conflict... big mac knows how to win wars...really... did we win v---nam? hello america!

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