Ain’t that strange we just got rid of “Red” then today at the meeting of G-20, China may help us with 586 billion dollars bailout with many strings attached such as “Hey USA, drop the arms sale to Taiwan!”.

We may say… Happy trails! to the “Blue” and Ni hao! the “RED”.

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20081016/OPINION04/710169954

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Be good indeed,
Ecnarb

You hit the spot! It’s certainly obvious that Obama is very qualified!

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive… and maybe even the President of the United States!!

Thankfully, we elected “Barack HUSSEIN Obama!”

I understand what your brother went through……it sounds like there is no change over the years.

I wonder if the 70′s have effected them into the anti-americanism…..due to the foreign policy that needs to be conservative.

Around the world expects Obama to recognize the foreign policy that will change, however, the 9/11 attack have effected to all of us and get the foreign policy to protect the boundary lines.

We know that USA have received the bomb threats several times around the world. Of course, USA got the bomb at the embassies. That is the huge problem nowadays.

I can understand how your brother felt. Fortunately, I have a dual citizenship, American-Canadian, which means that I can say that I’m Canadian, if I needed too! LOL!

He realized it was all media manipulation.

“Oh, geez, almost 4 years already and about election time already?!”

I’ll wager most Americans don’t think a whole lot about politics until that time. Walk into my in-law’s house on a family Sunday evening and it’s ALWAYS politics, LOL. Sometimes it gets so I wanna scream, shut up, this is Sunday after all.

*like, gimme a break*

Be NICE Mike! Rachel is one of my favorite bloggers!

On my first trip to France, I was treated like a crap as an American in Paris. Cashiers were unbelievably rude. I was in a store, and I asked a cashier how much the item cost, and she yelled at me as a mean witch. Other students in the group were treated in the same way.

On my second trip to France, my French host families talked nothing but how dirty and selfish Americans are. The weather was so freakin’ hot that they jokingly blamed on me for causing the global warming and allowing big fat cars to pollute in US.

Last summer, when I was in Rome, I experienced a massive riot depicting hatred towards Bush who happened to be in Rome on that day to meet the pope. Almost all streets in Rome were blocked. Gas poured everywhere. There were screams. There were posters saying “Push Bush Out!” Read the whole story here – http://www.filmmakersdream.net/travel/?p=78

When I was in Florence, a waiter at a restaurant was nasty as hell. Two of the students ordered a piece of meat, and they both got undercooked meat. They requested nicely to cook the meat some more. The waiter refused. We asked for a bottle of water. He never gave us a bottle of water. We still paid, but we didn’t give a tip. The minute we stepped out, the waiter chased after us and yelled at us to give him a tip. We stood up and said, “No!”

Last December, the work camp leader treated me obnoxiously because I was American. She said something along the lines that I was just a spoiled American who has housekeepers…

This trip has been different…Europeans advocated by asking us to vote for Obama – my French friends and host families asked me if I was voting for Obama.

Yesterday, when I walked down the road, a French residence saw my shirt and said, “You’re for Obama?”

“Yup!” I responded. She gave me thumbs up, “I hope he wins. All French people are hoping that he wins!”

Today, I was at a bookstore. As I was purchasing a book written in English, the cashier asked me if I’m American. I told him “Oui!” He smiled and said, “France is very happy that Obama won!”

Yesterday, I was in Aix-en-Provence, a big city in Provence, and there were big huge posters celebrating Obama’s victory.

It’s great to feel that there is a sense of pride in being an American in Europe for the first time, something that I’ve never felt being on a foreign land…

Also, as someone who lives in the south, I have many friends who are Republicans and many of them voted for Obama. This goes in showing that Obama was someone who could bring the divided nation together. If McCain-Palin won, we would have continued to see a deeply divided nation because Palin is way too conservative for Democrats who would not be able to handle at all, and even moderate Republicans could not handle her. Thus, that left only to the very conservatives who liked Palin. Our country is a melting pot. Our country is filled with many different opinions, and we can’t expect everyone to be conservative.

While Obama is Democrat, I feel that he is someone who is willing to listen to others and is willing to make compromises. He’s also honest as he made comments saying that he was sorry to make certain mistakes. He may have a few opinions that I may not agree, but no politician have the same mind as I do.

Mike, for your comment regarding global warming – my advice is to go to Europe. I didn’t understand the concept of global warming too well until I came to Europe, and it was a life changing experience for me as I SAW THE FACT that the humans ARE causing it!

Peace out.