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   Dale Hopson said, 4 months ago

   She’s on an island in a harbor, ANandy…

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   nighthawks said, 4 months ago

   and we WILL too

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   Ronald Harders said, 4 months ago

   As long as the Obamassiah and his cronies are in charge, the likelihood of America surviving is in doubt.

   Ron

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   motivemagus said, 4 months ago

   We survived Bush – barely, despite his best efforts. Obama’s kept us from being the enemy of the world, at least.

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   benbrilling said, 4 months ago

   Ronald, you’re giving me a toothache.

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   HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

   Motive–oh yes the world loves a weak apologist–makes them more confident

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   motivemagus said, 4 months ago

   Let me put it strongly, then. Obama has already undone much of the massive damage Bush wreaked on our moral authority and reputation worldwide, which was extraordinarily high after 9/11, and in the toilet before Obama was elected, and starting to build positive belief in us around the world once more. People around the world are starting to see someone reflecting more of America’s traditional values.
   And I SEE it – I travel all over the world. Even the stories in the world media are different.

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   parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

   Iran is a good example. The challenge by Mousavi, the uprising by the people and now the most influential clerics are calling for a new vote. The Iranians want the relationship with the US and with Obama and they don’t seem to be willing to relinquish that hope. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.

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   HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

   In your eyes motive–what are you a fantasy writer?

10. 

    charliekane said, 4 months ago

    I plan to … on, toward a brighter horizon!

    BTW, Howie-

    Had your eyes checked lately?

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    dtroutma said, 4 months ago

    Like Motive, in travels around the world, and meeting people from many countries- it was universal that “Americans” were still well-liked- but they were very disappointed that Bush got a second term. They all wondered what happened to the “real” America, that such a person could get elected, to anything.

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    HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

    trout–boo hoo;; We got better from 2000-2008; now we back down and apologize or do and say nothing

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    HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

    SFW Charlie

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    motivemagus said, 4 months ago

    Howgozit, let me just compare Republicans to Republicans so you can’t dodge the point. When we had Gulf War I (Saddam again, right?), Bush the elder assembled a huge alliance from Europe, Asia, and the Arab world to stop the invasion of Kuwait. You can argue about why we were protecting “freedom” in an absolute monarchy, but that’s another story. It was not only successful and efficient, it was fast, and we actually made a profit on it. (According to a friend of mine working in the Reagan and Bush White Houses, but I’ve seen references to that elsewhere.)
    Bush II had to pay countries to join his “alliance,” and most of them were small countries with trivial contribution to the fight. Our only real allies were the UK and Australia, and even they started to pull back. Bush had alienated the world to that extent. I was all over Europe two weeks after 9/11, and I remember American flags everywhere, not to mention things like the French – yes, the French! – publishing the headline “We Are All Americans” in solidarity with us. Dubya Bush blew that support so massively by his incursion into Iraq, it was astonishing.
    I had an Australian colleague who, when I said I had to be in the country to vote in 2004, said “c’mon, there’s no way Bush will win.” One UK paper said “how can X Americans (X being the number of voters) be so stupid?”
    Things have changed, and not in terms of “apologize or do and say nothing.” Bush did that with North Korea, remember? Oh, and China. And anyone else who wasn’t Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama is taking diplomatic action, and it’s working. We need allies, not enemies.