Re: Obama could be Chinese
I am disturbed and frightened by the popularity of Obama among the foreigners. America is supposed to be FEARED, not loved!
You see, America is the leader of the world. And leaders can't be all cuddly and chummy with the people they lead. It just doesn't work that way. There needs to be a certain dignity, a noble distancing of oneself from the riff-raff.
If Obama takes over every brown-skinned cat-eating street-peeing foreigner out there is going to think they can just show up in America and be welcomed as a friend. Our well-organized Coalition Of The Willing will turn into a friendly but useless rabble.
From TIME Magazine:
Great, now even Hong Kong is learning to gangsta-rap.
I am disturbed and frightened by the popularity of Obama among the foreigners. America is supposed to be FEARED, not loved!
You see, America is the leader of the world. And leaders can't be all cuddly and chummy with the people they lead. It just doesn't work that way. There needs to be a certain dignity, a noble distancing of oneself from the riff-raff.
If Obama takes over every brown-skinned cat-eating street-peeing foreigner out there is going to think they can just show up in America and be welcomed as a friend. Our well-organized Coalition Of The Willing will turn into a friendly but useless rabble.
From TIME Magazine:
There was a moment in Barack Obama's speech in San Antonio on Tuesday night that encapsulated something important about this year's U.S. presidential primary season. On the night of the Iowa caucuses in January, Obama said, the grandfather of one of his young staffers had stayed up until 5 a.m., watching the returns. The man was 81 years old — and he was in Uganda.
He was not alone. In many U.S. election seasons, the rest of the world doesn't pay much attention to the strange hoopla until the two main candidates have emerged... But this time is different. From Paris to Karachi, Canada to Turkey, interest in this U.S. election season began months ago. Libraries of new books on American politics and political figures have been flying off the shelves in Japan and Italy. Friends of mine (not all of them political junkies) from Australia, India, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa and Britain have all sent me e-mails in recent weeks about the primaries and how exciting they are. My father has been interested in American politics since 1960 and says he has never seen this level of interest so early in the race. "There truly has been nothing like the Democratic battle we are now experiencing," he e-mailed me recently. "Here [in Australia] wherever we go, people want to talk about the two candidates and are taking sides."
In Barack Obama, a biracial son of an immigrant, millions see themselves. "Educated, international-minded Indians get a huge thrill out of Obama," says Shashi Tharoor, a former high-ranking U.N. diplomat and an author and columnist. "He is much more 'one of us' than any previous presidential contender ... An Obama victory would fulfill everything the rest of the world has been told America could be, but hasn't quite been."
... Across the world, the techniques of the candidates are being copied. In Italy, Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, a candidate for the position of Prime Minister, has taken to lifting lines from Obama, including repeated usage of "Yes we can" in three languages: English, Italian ("Sì, possiamo") and the Italian capital's local dialect ("Se po' ffa'"). In Hong Kong, prodemocracy parties are studying U.S. campaign techniques, in particular Obama's grass-roots youth organizing. "Everyone wants to study how he delivers his message," says Tanya Chan, a District Council representative from the Civic Party.
He was not alone. In many U.S. election seasons, the rest of the world doesn't pay much attention to the strange hoopla until the two main candidates have emerged... But this time is different. From Paris to Karachi, Canada to Turkey, interest in this U.S. election season began months ago. Libraries of new books on American politics and political figures have been flying off the shelves in Japan and Italy. Friends of mine (not all of them political junkies) from Australia, India, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa and Britain have all sent me e-mails in recent weeks about the primaries and how exciting they are. My father has been interested in American politics since 1960 and says he has never seen this level of interest so early in the race. "There truly has been nothing like the Democratic battle we are now experiencing," he e-mailed me recently. "Here [in Australia] wherever we go, people want to talk about the two candidates and are taking sides."
In Barack Obama, a biracial son of an immigrant, millions see themselves. "Educated, international-minded Indians get a huge thrill out of Obama," says Shashi Tharoor, a former high-ranking U.N. diplomat and an author and columnist. "He is much more 'one of us' than any previous presidential contender ... An Obama victory would fulfill everything the rest of the world has been told America could be, but hasn't quite been."
... Across the world, the techniques of the candidates are being copied. In Italy, Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, a candidate for the position of Prime Minister, has taken to lifting lines from Obama, including repeated usage of "Yes we can" in three languages: English, Italian ("Sì, possiamo") and the Italian capital's local dialect ("Se po' ffa'"). In Hong Kong, prodemocracy parties are studying U.S. campaign techniques, in particular Obama's grass-roots youth organizing. "Everyone wants to study how he delivers his message," says Tanya Chan, a District Council representative from the Civic Party.

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