The Trouble with World Opinion

But Putin and Jin Tao do care what international opinion is of them.

Putin has slowly gained favourable opinion in Middle East, East Africa, and South America. Public opinion of Putin in those countries makes many there see him as a saviour against US. And that's only because Putin makes frequent visits to Iran, Libya, and other such places, and solidifies his reputation as an international defender of small poor nations against perceived US imperialism.

Hu Jin Tao has made sure to invest in those African countries that the West refuses to have anything to do with, and thus these various African, Middle Eastern, and South American nations side with those nations on whom the US attempts to make sanctions.

But nonetheless, the US still need not care what the world thinks of it. The US already has Western Europe, Eastern Europe, much of the Far East, and various powerful nations as its sworn and eternal allies, while Putin and Jin Tao are forced to scrape at the bottom of the barrel for the most questionable allies possible.

I personally am not terribly concerned with what the rest of the world thinks of my country or its government. I'm not even interested in their opinion of our foreign policy. Most of what passes for "world opinion" these days is not only nowhere near representative of what 6 billion non-Americans think.....a lot of it is based on lies to boot. For some reason, global media outlets like CNN and BBC enjoy fostering the notion that the United States went into Iraq and Afghanistan to further its imperial ambitions, a view which has never made any amount of sense to me. Seriously? If that were the kind of country we are, we'd have half the planet under American occupation by now. Personally, I am much more interested in the US being respected by its allies and feared by its enemies...not "liked." What does "like" translate into anyway - cooperation on foreign policy matters, favorable terms of trade......? What does it gain us? If those were what we were interested in, we'd have a better chance of it by convincing the relevant countries that it's in their economic or security interest to cooperate, and to hell with whether they "like" us.

Good Article. Mona Charen. I just received the following and wanted to pass it on for your readers. Never again, will we have any leaders like Thomas Jefferson. Never gain will America have any pride or anything due to incompetent, corrupt, greedy politicians that need to be sold a one-way ticket to GITMO, take all their assets to pay off the trillions they've robbed from Taxpayers, and send along all their buddies, all social and welfare recipients, and Take back America before it's too late.
KNOW HOW TO TELL WHEN A POLITICIAN IS LYING? 'HIS LIPS ARE MOVING!'
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THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME! SMART MAN. IN MORE THAN FIVE (5) DECADES, POLITICIANS HAVE IGNORED EVERYTHING THAT IT TAKES TO BE GREAT LEADERS. THEY'VE GOTTEN MORE INCOMPETENT, CORRUPT AND GREEDY. THEY'VE SOLD AMERICA DOWN THE RIVER. THESE CAREER POLITICIANS NEED TO BE SENT TO GITMO AND THIS IS REALLY TOO GOOD FOR THEM!
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When we get piled upon one another
in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe .
Thomas Jefferson


The democracy will cease to exist
when you take away from those
who are willing to work and
give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson


It is incumbent on every generation
to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on
would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson


I predict future happiness for Americans
if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people
under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson


My reading of history convinces me that
most bad government results from
too much government.
Thomas Jefferson


No free man shall ever
be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson


The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is,
as a last resort,
to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson


The tree of liberty must be refreshed
from time to time with
the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson


To compel a man to subsidize
with his taxes
the propagation of ideas
which he disbelieves and abhors
is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson


Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
'I believe that
banking institutions are
more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks
to control the issue of their currency,
first by inflation,
then by deflation,
the banks and corporations that
will grow up around the banks
will deprive the people
of all property
- until their children
wake-up homeless
on the continent
their fathers conquered.'

Thanks, Mona Charen. I thought your readers might like to read the following that was sent to me.
The Kennedys & others like him did a 'Hi-Ho Hitler" job when they chose to
go along with Mattoon and the socialist party! Obama is just the scape goat
for the ones before him to make sure 'destruction' to America is his No. 1
Priorty.

Shirley deLong, Artist, Activist, Writer
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He has got 2 years to destroy us!



Subject: FW: Overwhelming the System...Read it and Weep



Barack Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is

brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely

overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic

crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our

country from within.



Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of

'83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is

following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia

University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming

the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the

clues below.

Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a

brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a

socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately

needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote

for bigger government.





Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.



Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do

with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of

hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000

new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama

doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will

add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it

cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big

government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless

spending bill in the middle of a depression?





Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do

with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming.

It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government

control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest

contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like

GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support

everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of

dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them

in power.

The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars,

bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."



Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's

asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government

entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American

taxpayers.

But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new

Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal

Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.




Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12

million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm

the system and bankrupt America. But it adds 12 million reliable new

Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add

another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children,

food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and

eventually Social Security.






Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to

Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including

billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees

across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their

employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman

Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in

(contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby

protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote

loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that

are bankrupting America. The country goes broke, future generations

face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and

the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.




Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job

creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of

taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those

who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted

to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama

wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.


With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast

and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big

government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for

big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism

and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.





Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by

my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the

Cloward and Piven Plan.