>>>>This is a sick title. Need I say more?
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>>>Newspaper over here today say that there is still a lot of people from USA that don't believe that a black person can be president. So whatever Mr. Obama is doing they will find a way to put a bad side to it.
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>>>This remark is in no way directed at you Kevin. You probably have good reasons to be against some of the things that Mr. Obama wants to put forward. I don't understand why you feel so strongly against him but I guess that I don't have enough information to really understand.
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>>>I wonder how the rest of the world sees Mr. Obama after that period spent as the president of the USA.
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>>>I don't think that it changed a lot over here in Canada. What is it like in the Netherlands Peter?
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>>According to a poll in july Obama is more popular than our own political leaders (our 3 (vice) prime ministers). The Dutch pain-in-the-*ss politician Geert Wilders criticized Obama in an interview yesterday for his attitude towards Islam. This weekend Obama received our prince Willem-Alexander and princess Máxima in the White House. They also talked about the Healthcare plans and Obama told them he liked the Dutch healthcare system.
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>>Some translated (by me) paragraphs from a fine (imo) article from Ductch columnist Arie Elshout in my daily newspaper (The Volkskrant):
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Barack Obama is too civilized. In order to break the resistance against his healthcare plan he should not hesitate to "keep your foot on your opponent's neck. [It's] good if people in the way [...] fear you." This is the advice he got from Maureen Dowd, columnist of the The New York Times. Reading those words during my breakfast I was astonished about this harsh 'proposal'. [...] Of course, Dowd doesn't mean this litterally. Her message is clear: Fight back, do what you have to do, if people are not willing to cooperate then force to cooperate unwillingly. [...] Obama is a phenomenom. He sincerely wants to do things in a descent way and wants to be/become known as a reasonable man. [...] But will he succeed in that mission? He is a good speaker. However, Dowd now wants more result. [...] In the end it will be his ability, or lack of it, to get things done, that will determine whether or not he was a successful president. [...] It is apparent that Obama has a brilliant ghostwriter, but now it is time to give room to some street fighters to get promissed things indeed done. [..] Obama stretched out his hands to Russia, Iran, Islam, South-America etc. No such party has reacted in a similar, reciprocal way. [...] Apparently friendly words are not enough. It is quite possible that he may actually gonna fail as a president. What he should do now is use some of his POWER to MAKE things happen.>>
>>Dowd's article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09dowd.html>
>Does she want another Mussolini or something? And you wonder why people are afraid of a government takeover when they read this kind of crap.
I read that column and agree with her completely. I would nominate her for a Pulitzer Prize if she didn't have one already.
