Foreigners are fascinated with our politics. Why?

My personal view is more left, but that is not the point either. I was merely comparing American perceptions of Obama before taking office and actual Obama. Actual Obama is more centrist than the originally perceived Obama. I am speaking in relative terms. It has nothing to do with my own political leanings. The observation is objective fact. He may not be centrist enough for you, but he is more centrist than he was originally believed to be by many Americans.

 

Any thinking person, irrespective of borders, can see that Palin is a fool. Further, she is barely educated, out of her depth and knows little of the world around her. But she sparkles. And a lot of simple people are fascinated by sparkle.

 

These are my thoughts as well. I think the Conservatives winning office the past two elections as well as their constant lead in the polls are evidence of Canadians' desire for less government. Not necessarily minimal government (because I think most Canadians are satisfied with our government funded education and healthcare system), but certainly they don't want to see government get any bigger at the very least.

These are just my personal opinions and observations, obviously this doesn't apply to everybody.

 

JUST WHO IS THIS GUY.... OBAMA??
* A man who added more to the National Debt in 120 days than all other Presidents did in the past 220 years, yet feels qualified to lecture Americans about “fiscal responsibility”.
* A man with no birth certificate.
* A man whose birth records, both in the United States and Kenya, are sealed by government order.
* A man whose childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, spied on U.S. military installations in Hawaii for the Soviet Union, edited a communist newspaper, authored pornographic novels, and wrote poetry in praise of Joseph Stalin.
* A man who promised transparency in government, but has spent over a million dollars in legal fees hiding information that would determine his eligibility to be President.
* A man whose academic records are sealed from kindergarten through law school.
* A man who arrived in New York in June of 1981 without enough money to get a hotel room, but one month later flew to Indonesia and Pakistan.
* Why did he go?
* Who paid his expenses?
* A man who traveled to Pakistan when it was illegal for U.S. citizens to do so. So what country’s passport did he use?
* A man whose Law School Admission Test scores and grades at Columbia University are known to have been mediocre, but was admitted to Harvard Law School through the intervention of a Saudi named Khalid al -Mansour.
* A law review editor who never published an article in any law review.
* A lawyer with no significant accomplishments in the law and no reputation in the legal community.
* A former State and U.S. Senator, who never authored a piece of legislation.
* A disciple of the Marxist Saul Alinsky.
* A product of the Chicago political machine—the most corrupt political organization in America.
* A man who selects Marxists, corrupt politicians, and criminals as his close political associates and personal friends.
* A man whose presidential candidacy was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, the Socialist International, and the Workers International League.
* A man lauded for the literary brilliance of two memoirs, both of which were ghostwritten by others.
* A man who had the most left-wing voting record in the United State Senate, but was predicted by the press to “govern from the middle.”
* A man who has never created a job, met a payroll, or even operated a lemonade stand, but wants to tell Detroit how to make cars.
* A President who has never before served as an executive in either the private or the public sector.
* A Commander-in-Chief who has publicly divulged some of our nation’s most important intelligence secrets.
* A man who has been put in charge of the largest economic engine that ever existed, but has never invested in the stock market and admits total ignorance of it.
* A man whose health records are sealed from childhood to the present day.
* A man who publicly expressed disdain for the U.S. Constitution on a Chicago radio station because it limited the government’s ability to “redistribute wealth.”
* A narcissist who gave the Queen of England a present from the United States --an iPod containing recordings of his own speeches.
* A so-called Christian who officially declared “Pride Month” for a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination.
* A man who wanted Americans to ignore his Muslim name during his election campaign, yet boasts of his Muslim name when he travels to Muslim countries.
* A man who can name hundreds of America’s shortcomings, yet none of its great accomplishments.
* A President who scoffed at being called a socialist yet acted to nationalize the auto industry, the banking industry, and the insurance industry and the healthcare industry.
* A President who violates private property rights, the sanctity of contracts, and the rule of law—three essential principles that go back over a thousand years in the Common Law tradition.
* A man who promised 95% of all Americans a tax cut, but is increasing taxes on 100% of the population through inflation—the cruelest tax of all.
* A lawyer who represented ACORN—an organization now indicted in several states for voter fraud—whose stated goal is to get as many people on welfare as possible in order to destroy our financial system.
* A President who cheated GM’s bondholders by giving their property to the UAW in a political payoff.
* An American President who frequently criticizes his own country when speaking in foreign countries, but never praises America’s generosity, goodness or greatness.
* A President who scoffs at being called a socialist, yet has appointed 28 “Czars” to circumvent constitutional government, including:
* A “Science Czar” who has advocated compulsory abortions for American women and the “surrender of sovereignty” to a “comprehensive Planetary Regime.”
* A self-professed communist as his “Green Jobs Czar”. A "Pay Czar” to regulate the pay of corporate executives.
* A President who swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” yet has nominated a domestic enemy of the Constitution to the Supreme Court.

SOMEONE KNOWS:
The vast majority of Americans do not know who he is, but someone surely does. Someone paid for his travel expenses to Pakistan and Indonesia.
Someone engineered legal challenges to all of his election opponents for the State Senate and had them disqualified.
Someone straightened and leveled his path to the U.S. Senate when a Democrat Judge made public the child custody records of his Republican opponent. When he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate, someone arranged for him to speak at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
Someone saw to it that all of his records were sealed, both at home and abroad. Someone assembled the massive organization for his run for the Presidency. Someone knows all about him.
Who? The answer is George Soros-connected to the Rothchilds.

 

I'm just curious how you are able to compare or analyze American perceptions through any other medium besides the media.

 

Republicans have become obstructionist like never before. It is unprecedented.

 

Gabfly must be alter name for Janeane Garofalo.

 

I refer entirely to the US media in arriving at the point I made earlier. Aside from Fox, of course, which is warped entertainment rather than news. A "news" station that incites people to rebel is not a news station.

 

It isn't the viewpoint of most Americans? Do you think that most Americans have a favorable opinion of Palin? This woman is clearly not bright enough to run the superpower of the world. I would argue that she's not even bright enough to run a state. An isolated, northern state.

This post is not meant to flame, because I know there are Palin supporters here, but I am just trying to understand the logic. Maybe people agree with much of the message she attempts to portray on various topics of interest, but really, would you trust her with the decision of whether or not to go to war? With economic policy? No matter if you are conservative or liberal, surely common sense will prevail?

 

Wow.

I actually agree with something that thundersnapper wrote...