I have been thinking a lot lately about the messiah's tour of Europe. The Germans appear to love him, at least the ones that showed up. They all came praising him in all of his glory. They brought signs and wore clothes and bowed down to him (the Obama campaign supplied the signs and clothes). I saw many Germans waiting to get healed from all of their pain. This went on and on and on. Later, the messiah went to France and England, but he didn't do any large "sermon on the mount" speeches there.
The BBC, Reuters, NBC, CBS and ABC all said that Obama is loved in Europe and that Europeans want him to be the next leader of the "Free World." This is beginning to bother me. In a BBC piece, the reporter said Obama is the "political redeemer." Now, it's really bothering me.
I don't care what the Europeans want for President of the United States! They can't vote! (That may change if we keep going on this path.) Obama talked about uniting the world, and he even called himself "a citizen of the world." Now, I want to break out and sing now..."We are the world, We are the children, We are the ones who make a brighter day, So let's start giving, There's a choice we're making, We're saving our own lives, It's true we'll make a better day, Just you and me"...ok, I'm done, enough with that. I don't like Michael Jackson anyway, I don't know what just happened. In fact, lets just forget all about that song.
Back to business. When was the last time Europeans picked a good leader? This may be tough. Maybe if we asked what can be defined as "good"? Is good, Adolph Hitler? I hope not, if that is good, they picked a real winner. Is good, Benito Mussolini? Francisco Franco? Joseph Stalin? Vladimir Lenin? Napoleon Bonaparte? And these leaders are recent leaders, lets not talk about the distant past (Julius Caesar, and the rest of the Caesars after him, etc). So, if you consider these leaders as good, well, they were good at killing millions of people.
Now, one country has somewhat of a good track record, the United Kingdom. They at least had Winston Churchill as their leader. He was a success.
So where do the Europeans get off picking the United States' next president? They don't! They can't vote!
Since when do the Europeans have to bow down to what the Americans do? Aren't they proud of their home country? Or, do they want Americans to suffer with them with socialized healthcare? Why don't we all just "spread the wealth" together?! What is good for Europe is good for America, right?
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I still don't understand the conservative contention of Obama's trip. He went everywhere that McCain went to in the spring after securing his own nomination. 71% of the country wants to be on better terms with Europe. The speech in Berlin had a whole lot more to do with the voters of the U.S. seeing international respect, than a bunch of Germans trying to elect an American president.
You mean to tell me that if McCain could draw 215,000 people to a speech in Berlin, he wouldn't do it? Of course he would, I mean it'd be a very bored 215,000 people, but he'd do it in a heartbeat. EVERY politician would.
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