AP: Obama‘s Presidency a Global ’Disappointment’
- Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:13pm by
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In this July 24, 2008 file photo, President-elect Barack Obama waves as he arrives at the Victory Column in Berlin. In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Obama speak, there's disappointment that he hasn't kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and perceptions that he's shunting blame for the financial crisis across the Atlantic. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
(AP) — In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack Obama speak, there‘s disappointment that he hasn’t kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and perceptions that he’s shunting blame for the financial crisis across the Atlantic.
In Mogadishu, a former teacher wishes he had sent more economic assistance and fewer armed drones to fix Somalia’s problems. And many in the Middle East wonder what became of Obama’s vow, in a landmark 2009 speech at the University of Cairo, to forge a closer relationship with the Muslim world.
In a world weary of war and economic crises, and concerned about global climate change, the consensus is that Obama has not lived up to the lofty expectations that surrounded his 2008 election and Nobel Peace Prize a year later. Many in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America were also taken aback by his support for gay marriage, a taboo subject among religious conservatives.
But the Democrat still enjoys broad international support. In large part, it’s because of unfavorable memories of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, and many people would still prefer Obama over his presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
“We all had high hopes for him,” said Filomena Cunha, an office worker in Lisbon, Portugal, who said she’s struggling to make ends meet. “But then things got bad and there’s not much he can do for us over here.”
President Barack Obama addressed an audience at Cairo University in Egypt in 2009.
Obama’s rock-star-like reception at Berlin’s Victory Column in the summer of 2008 was a high point of a wildly successful European campaign tour. The thawing of a harsh anti-Americanism that had thrived in Europe was as much a reaction to the Bush years as it was an embrace of the presidential hopeful.
Those high European expectations have turned into disappointment, largely because of the continued U.S. military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and Obama’s failure to close Guantanamo Bay in the face of vehement congressional opposition.
Foreign policy expert Josef Braml, who analyzes the U.S. for the German Council on Foreign Relations, said many Germans give Obama too much of the blame because they don’t understand the limits of his powers.
“There’s a lack of understanding both of how the system of checks and balances works – or doesn’t work any longer – and a lack of understanding of how big the socio-economic problems in the United States are, which cause the gridlock,” Braml said in a telephone call from Greece, where he was on vacation.
In this June 4, 2009 file photo, Egyptian villagers watch a live broadcast of a speech by U.S. President Barack Obama is seen on screen at a coffee shop in Qena, south Cairo, Egypt when he was calling for a new beginning between the United States and Muslims in his speech delivered at Cairo University in Egypt. (AP Photo/File)
Obama‘s views on Europe’s financial crisis also have rankled some on the continent. In September, he said the crisis was “scaring the world” and that steps taken by European nations to stem the eurozone debt problem “haven’t been as quick as they need to be.”
The Obama administration describes the eurozone crisis as a European problem that needs a European solution. The U.S. and Canada last month refused to participate in boosting the International Monetary Fund’s financial resources to manage the crisis.
“I think people see through his game to put the blame on Europeans – I think Germans and Europeans still know where the economic crisis had its beginning,” Braml said. “That’s just finger-pointing, not doing a fair analysis of the dire situation in the U.S., but I can understand Obama is doing that because he wants to get re-elected so they need to shift blame around on the Republicans or the Europeans.”
Mehmet Yegin, a specialist in Turkish-American relations at USAK, the Ankara-based International Strategic Research Organization, said Europe still sees Obama as superior to Romney, “because they primarily evaluate Romney as a Republican and their memories about George W. Bush linger.”
In this May 25, 2011 file photo, protesters, both dressed in an orange overalls, depicting detainees at the U.S. military detention centre in Guantanamo, Cuba, one hooded and one holding a mask depicting U.S. President Barack Obama, demonstrates outside Britain's Houses of Parliament, in central London, where Obama was to give an address. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
Many in the Mideast also would like to see Obama win a second term, though they feel he has not lived up to his Cairo speech, in which he extended a hand to the Islamic world by calling for an end to the cycle of suspicion and discord.
Obama has been the U.S. president “least involved in the Palestinian issue,” said Mohammed Ishtayeh, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
“We were very optimistic when Obama was elected. He talked in his meeting with us without looking into his notes; that tells how much he knows about our issue,” he said.
But since Obama made his Cairo speech, Ishtayeh added, “he found his hands tied and couldn’t make much progress.”
The Palestinians have refused to conduct peace talks while Israel continues to expand its settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem – areas claimed by the Palestinians. Officials have quietly given up hope for any sort of breakthrough until after the presidential election.
Obama also has a strained relationship with Israel, where Bush was popular. Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been cool to one another in their handful of meetings. Obama’s Mideast envoy, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, made no progress during two years of frequent meetings with both sides before quitting last year.
Despite the chilly relations between Obama and Netanyahu, overall ties between the allies remain strong. The U.S. has backed Israel on several key occasions at the United Nations, for instance, helping block a Palestinian attempt to join the world body last year without a peace deal and fending off attempts by other countries to charge Israel with human rights abuses.
“Concerning Israel, he has proved that he is not absolutely rigid but is willing to reconsider when confronted with facts that he would not have expected,” said Avraham Diskin, a political scientist at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University.
“He began very inexperienced on all fronts, but he is a very intelligent person and Israelis see that,” Diskin added.
In Iraq, site of the war that fed much of the international community’s dislike of Bush, Obama has received some credit for pulling out combat forces last year.
“President Obama has removed so much of the cowboy image of America that has been imprinted in the mentality of Iraqis by Bush,” Baghdad lawyer Raad Mehsin said.
But Carawan Ahmed, a high school teacher in Iraq’s northern Kurdish capital of Irbil, said Obama has ignored the Kurdish minority, which continues to struggle against the Shiite-dominated government.
“When Democrats, including Obama, are in power, we lose the sympathy and support from America. To be frank, the Republicans protected the Kurdish people, while Obama’s administration is not,” Ahmed said.
In Mogadishu, former schoolteacher Fadumo Hussein retains a shaken support for Obama, but disapproves of the mounting casualties from U.S. drone attacks on Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked insurgency while the country’s humanitarian need is neglected.
“He only sent drones, not enough assistance,” Hussein said. “We don’t need bombs, but other means of assistance.”
Obama remains popular in Japan, one of the United States’ closest allies, though that may be a matter of style over substance, said Koichi Nakano, political science professor at Sophia University in Tokyo.
“The Japanese like Obama. Maybe they don’t know all that much about him, but I guess he continues to be seen as a youthful, energetic, charismatic leader,” he said.
America’s stature has taken a hit in Japan since the 2008 financial meltdown, which highlighted the excesses of U.S.-style capitalism to many Japanese. They also fret about the increased attention Washington is giving China, which supplanted Japan as the world’s second-largest economy.
While still widely admired in Japan, the U.S. “comes across as a more divided country and less self-confident, more concerned about its social harmony and less about the outside world,” Nakano said. That’s translated into “a general perception that Obama may not be that interested in foreign policy, period.”
Obama, however, has tried to build on America’s connections to Asia as authoritarian China grows. Adam Lockyer, a lecturer at Sydney University’s U.S. Studies Center, said those efforts have been received more warmly in Australia because of who is in charge.
During a visit last year in which he received an overwhelmingly popular reception, Obama announced that up to 2,500 U.S. Marines will be stationed in Australia’s north for joint training exercises. Australian government fears of a public backlash were never realized.
“The fact that Obama himself was making the announcement of U.S. troops in Australia quelled a lot of fears,” Lockyer said. If Bush had made it, he said, “there would have been a lot more hostility.”
“Democrat presidents tend to be a little bit more hesitant to define the world as good and evil, which tends to be more attractive to Australian ears,” he said.
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Comments (183)
republic2011
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:32pmAll hail the socialist. That should have told everyone something when he was being welcomed with open arms by the Germans. They have all been hoping America would go that direction someday. This was the pivotal moment for that transformation. Got to love it.. he is even ******* off his socialist/marxist base. But, re-elect him and he’ll make the all very proud.. I promise.
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:45pmWhile it should have told the American people something…..it didn’t. And here we are three and a half years later paying the price. This needs to be reversed this Novemeber by all that want a return to American greatness. History is once again repeating itself, and we’re all losing.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R83lXxK_8SI
BreeZee
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 5:15pmHA HA even the world sees what a POS he is. his ruin of our economy has finally hit the rest of the worlds pocketbooks. barry didn’t know(inexperience I guess) the US economy leds the world and if we go down even china can’t stand.
too bad some ppl in this country can’t see past his color and see what damage he has unleashed on ALL AMERICANS
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 5:59pmAccording to the article about “Julia”… aren’t those US Flags on the wrong side of the POTUS?
And what’s that snaky looking thing (center stage) coming out from under the curtain?
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:13pmDid they really think he was the socialist messiah? Is the world that stupid?
Report Post »From Virginia
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:17pm@Breezee – No -they DON’T see what a failure he is. They are still blaming Bush just like obummer is.
Shoot! I learned everything I needed to know about this bum when he said that Americans couldn’t eat what they wanted and set their thermostats to 72 degrees and expect the world to be ok with that.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:56pmI bet they wish they could get that Nobel Peace Prize back just look at the rest in his administration who also recieved one. Stop handing them out like candy you have to actually be worthy of such a Honor.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 9:43pmI have friends in Germany and the only reason anyone showed up for Obama speech:
1) Free Beer
2) Rock groups played before Obama showed up
(Free Beer) Obama chummed the water to get a turn out. So the whole thing was a staged event. Germans think Obama is a lightweight
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:35pmThe master fraud. Collective stupidity.
Report Post »2THINKABOUTIT
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:35amThis photo of Obama in Berlin was originally a front page of LosAngeles Times. It was flipped in photoshop. Otherwise the beloved Obama would have been shown giving the old “Seig Heil” The media would never do that.
Report Post »I did try pointing this out to Glen,Rush, and Sean at the time it was published, but to no avail.
Shame on LosAngels Times.
dublinthewagons
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:24amDear world: no more ree rides on this wagon! Get of and pull your own weight. Europe has yet to repay us for saving and rebuilding them after WW2. We have rebuilt the world and are now on food stamps ourselves. Our debt $$ to you is paid in full. How is socialism & hopie changie working for ya.
Report Post »Go crap in your own hat.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:51amREPUBLICORP, I was stationed in Germany on my final tour there when Clinton was elected. The Germans that I worked and associated with were irate and wondered how we (again a term I use loosely) could elect such commie pinko. One of our interpreters was really vocal. He was 7 years old when America entered WWII and saw what happened to his country under Hitler, then the Soviet take over of his home city. As a child he abandoned the bicycle that was his last present from his family and swam a river to escape the communist occupation into freedom. He had loved the Americans ever since and could not accept the free election of such a clown. He commented that Nikita Khrushchev was right and that we would be destroyed from within. I can guarantee that none of the left wing ass clowns here, JZS, ENCINOM(AN), MONNICNE, and others have never meet a refugee from communism. I have met far too many in my service to this country.
Report Post »wayner4162
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:16pmIf you attend movies, buy videos, magazines or any other thing produced in Hollywood or the entertainment industry, you should give some very serious thought to the fact that the people in Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment industry support with millions and millions of dollars, the cause of the communist socialist politicians and their movement to destroy our nation.
Report Post »If you attend any professional sports functions such as boxing, baseball, football, basketball or watch TV channels that air these sports events you are in need again of giving very serious thought to the fact that many, many of the players and coaches give millions to the communist socialist politicians who are ever closer to destroying our nation.
Political correctness is thought control by way of fear of retribution in the schools, work place, in public institutions, and many other places where their used to be what was known as freedom of speech. Evil is good and good is evil, this is the idea behind political correctness it is subversive and evil of itself.
Speak your mind, but more importantly BOYCOTT Hollywood movies or other products and BOYCOTT professional sports events in protest to the leftist socialist-communist movement in this country, take the money you would spend, and spend it on supporting ways to save our constitution, our government, freedom and our way of life.
dmerwin
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:27pmHe couldn’t deliver the global welfare check so they are pissed. Well, so are we.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:28pmTo the “Citizens of the World” who were so hopeful about President Obama, reality is a cruel mistress isn’t she?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 5:34pmPerhaps the “Citizens of the World” thought the SCOTUS’s “Citizens United” ruling was for them and they are waiting for Obama to “unite” the World with Sociacommiearxism.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 5:40pmHas anyone told the Obamunist nation how miserably disastrous the Obama presidency has been. He has spent more in 3.5 years than all 43 President combined.
Somebody tell ears how disappointing he has been.. He, Oblamer, needs to take the cotton out of his ears and stick it in his mouth.
Report Post »From Virginia
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:12pm“But since Obama made his Cairo speech, Ishtayeh added, “he found his hands tied and couldn’t make much progress.”
Hands tied? Who is he kidding? Obumbo had a bullet proof congress for his first two years. His hands weren’t tied by anythng! His hands are STILL not tied! If congress doesn’t agree with him he bypasses them and signs one of his little executive orders.
What a joke!
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 11:04pmThere were no “citizens of the world” all hopeful of an Obama presidency. It was a myth, story-making.
If anything, our relations have not improved but have worsened since Obama took office.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 11:20pmHow does the rest of the world think we feel . We are the ones stuck with him.
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:08amSo whats the NEW WORLD ORDER going to do without their muslim and chief? Maybe they‘ll still let him do his thing since we have NO control over what he’s about to do!
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:26pmPost what I wrote. We all know Glenn Beck was kidnapped. As I was. Let my Glenn Beck go…
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:00amwtf? over.
Report Post »HaroldHeard
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:25pmObama‘s Presidency a Global ’Disappointment’, not to shock anyone, but Obama‘s Presidency is just a ’Disappointment’, period.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 5:29pmYeah, who cares about “global” disappointment? Our country is ALL that matters right now.
Report Post »Zurich
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:37pmI knew there was no “Global Warming” but “Global Disappointing”……
Report Post »philipzhao
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:37pmBHO’s presidency is a shot in the arm for the Islamic world !
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:56amHAROLDHEARD, ” ’Disappointment’, period.”? You are too kind to him. He has in fact been more of a terror.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:58amAgeed. Things are fkd up enough here that we don’t have time to worry about the rest of the world. He is not so much a disappointment but rather an absolute abomination.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:23pmInternational disappoint over Obama has a name. It is called “style over substance.” He conned the whole world. Socialist Europe yearned for magic from Obama and all we asked for was leadership.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:40pmGird your loins for battle the black panthers will be at the booths again to drive away conservative voters this may get ugly so be prepared.
Report Post »FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:22pmWe have 3 articles in 2 days Obama negative. What is the world banking cartel trying to say? After all they own the media you watch.
This is what goes on—- “In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press….They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers.
“An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.” U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917
“There will be a new form of global (one world) government.” David de Rothschild, Nov. 7, 2008
“If we like it or not, we will have a One World Government. The question is if it will be achieved through consent or through conquest” – J. Warburg – ( Rothschild banker)
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:17pm@FromSeaToSea
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford
We “well enough” understand it now…. the “morrow morning” is coming.
Report Post »Cruelnunusual
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 8:06pmThe only given is that the media wants to take down Obama. Trying to see into a crystal ball too far is hopeless. The simplest answer is, they want Romney to make a few common sense improvements in the economy so the Banksters can invest some of the cash they stole. I’m buying stocks and maybe a REIT, real estate, and I’m dumping gold. Long term we’re doomed, of course, but it’s time to make money now.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:21pmJust like I think the kidnapping and torture of Glenn Beck is a real and serious disappointment. A really profound and grievous disappointment. If I could learn how to be disappointed.
I’m still in Concentration Camp No. 1,the UW psych ward, managing easily not to be disappointed. Someone is loudly playing “Let’s Get It On” behind me. As if sex was nasty.
Let my Glenn Beck go…
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:00amdude… your’re fkd in the head.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:19pmNice to see the world is even turning on Obama; the problem is WE are the ones stuck with a up and coming dictator in the White House who has ignited the world on fire.
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:47pmVery much agree,,,
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:16pmToo easily do people put their faith in other people and not themselves. What are they looking for a savior? Grow up people. Don’t for governments or people to save you. Look towards yourself.
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:12pmObama:
Report Post »The
Worst
President in
American
History
AJAYW
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:37pmMake Caryer look like a hero
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:01am4 sure!
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:11pmATTENTION CITIZEN OF THE WORLD: …the citizens of the United States of America are not very proud of him either.!!!!!!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:06pmI didn‘t care what the world thought about Bush and I don’t care what they think about Obama.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:01amGONZO, You have to take into consideration that what we were told what other nationalities thought of Bush or even now of 0bama has controlled by our communist Main Stream Media. Does not mean that it is necessarily true. We are being spoon fed BS by these organizations.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:07amDuh, need to get my next cup of coffee. Apparently spelling, punctuation, and even wording failed me in that last post. But, you can get what I meant after all. Now, off to the coffee maker.
Report Post »CaKe
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:04pmI love you Glenn but please stop the Ron Paul foreign policy bull crap line! Yer all about cracking down on conspiracies yet you haven‘t noticed Romney’s ties to bilderburg and the elite? Makes me very dissapointed you don‘t talk at all about the corrupted crap all around what’s happening to Ron Paul! Alot of respect lost my friend, makes people wonder… If you really care about america you should pull for Ron! Not the bankertards! Romney was paid for by them and your fallowing the same herd! WHY???? Shame on you Sir!! Shame on you…
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:15pmBilderberg?!?! … and you say Glenn’s a conspiracy theorist? I’ve read some of that Bilderberg nonsense. Those people are NUTS!!
Report Post »RaiderforFreedom
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:20pm@Cake,
” If you really care about america you should pull for Ron!”
If YOU really cared about America, then you would realize that Dr. Paul is a great man, but doesn’t have a shot in the dark of winning this presidential election, or any future presidential election.
ABO 2012
Report Post »canadianproud
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:37pmWho are you to try and dictate to anyone to vote for Ron Paul. What makes you right?
Report Post »WISEPENNY
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 8:53pmDoes anyone think Glenn should be drafted for Romney’s VP? Sounds like a great idea. Seriously!
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:02pm…
Report Post »It‘s still Bush’s fault, after three and a half years out of office.
Obama-The-Blamer, and the Lame-Stream Media, never give up.
Pathetic!
Magyar
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:01pm“They’re” disappointed? Not only are most common sense Americans disappointed—they’re sickened by this embarrassing liar, thief, cheat and fraud!
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:12pm“HE TALKED WITHOUT LOOKING AT HIS NOTES”
WOW thats a FIRST!!!!!
OMG 2012
Report Post »pugczar
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 5:39pmMaybe they have never seen a teleprompter. We all know he can’t speak without one. They just weren’t that observant.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:05pmHe forgot to use the black swagger in his speechs that’s what fooled them.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:57pm…
Obama’s “HOPE and CHANGE” is destroying America.
To H*LL with his new slogan “FORWARD”.
Obama gives freebies to the Welfare bunch, who don’t work or pay anything into the tax system, or for that matter, even contribute to society.
These lazy people don’t realize, that the cash cow will dry up, when no one has any jobs, and no one will be paying into the system.
Most Americans will be in the streets, with no roof over their heads and no food to eat, before it will even dawn on the freeloaders what happened. Then it will be too late to fix the problem.
In November, FIRE the EVIL idiot, before he destroys America.
Report Post »Obama, bend “FORWARD”, so we can kick your @$$ right out the door.
Kerstile
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:47pmWhere does one even start with all of the garbage inside this article. It is a hit piece on the USA and Dubya (again), not on Obama. One small example: An Australian “lecturer’s” opinion matters why?
This article is written from the point of view of a “Citizen of the World”. Here is my humble, worthless opinion: Hey, Citizen of the World, stuff it.
The “problems” of the world are not the fault of any one country. The problems are due to an ideology. An ideology that has never been successful and has resulted in 10′s of millions of deaths during the 20th Century. So, Citizen of the World, if you want things to get better, shred Marxism, communism, socialism and progressivism. Then, burn the shreds and never look back.
This “article” is rot.
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:02pmThumb up
NoBama 2012
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:11pmYes the citizen of the world…..The person who says USA has no right to tell the rest of the world how to live yet demands a transformation of America..It will be nice to get a President of the United States again and to get rid of the President of the World wannabe.
Report Post »Kerstile
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 5:18pmThanks, m@micmac. I forgot an “ism”. Islam(ism). Burn that backwards, quasi-religious, socialistic claptrap, too. That, or at least a major reform.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:41pmThere has been No Successful Socialist Government in World History. Yet, INSANELY, the Liberal Faithful attempt repeating the Rite over, and over, again… expecting Utopia! So, as they continue, they must find More, and More, Insane Leaders!
Report Post »Vernon Black
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:52pmSocialist Marxist’s are TRUE believers….they, including Obama, would have NO problem murdering anyone who opposes them:
KILLED IN THE NAME OF SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM IN THE 20th CENTURY:
Report Post »Mao…… 75 million
Stalin…..60 million
Hitler……20 million
Shek……10 million
Lenin……. 4 million
The Socialists believe that Socialism would work, if it were only their Leaders in charge!
Gonzo
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:04pmIsrael is socialist for all intents and purposes.
Report Post »FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:06pmObama is a mass murderer as well. He has signed onto the killing of NATO in sovereign nations around the world and directly kills with CIA drones everyweek. The last count I saw was 513 killed by drones over say the last year. Of the 513, 499 roughly were estimated to be collateral damage.
Report Post »We have a mass murderer in the WH. 3 US citizens were droned in the last 3 months having never been charged with a crime. We need to get rid of Obama, exit the UN, and abolish the banking cartel Federal Reserve. I vote for printing our own money and giving one half to the homeless in America.
Last year we paid $83 Billion in banking cartel interest. There’s no need to. Public servants are afraid of the bankers accept Ron Paul.
lukerw
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:15pm@GONZO
Report Post »And… the same maybe said… of Every Family Unit… where Israel acts a one big Jewish Family! But, in a Family… there is No Economic Growth within nor plan for Export Trade. So, the Family is not a viable Economic System… just as Europe, and as Israel!
dmerwin
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:56pmGonzo
Report Post »I’ll concede that point but would also point out that they expect EVERYONE to contribute. Our liberals and the Europeans do not.
IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:34pmA president can’t do all things for all people but when you promise you have to pay the consequences with either losing an election or your reputation or both. He has treated some of our best allies dishonorably and that will count against him too around the world.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:38pm“and many people would still prefer Obama over his presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney”
So the “world” would prefer the Marxist ??? That is all I need to know …
Romney 2012! OMG 2012!
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:07pmCATB I sure hope not. The last four years was enough for me.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:28pmHe got a lot done–
Report Post »Obama’s green jobs accomplishments.
SunPower, after receiving $1.5 billion from DOE, is reorganizing, cutting jobs.
First Solar, after receiving $1.46 billion from DOE, is reorganizing, cutting jobs.
Solyndra, after receiving $535 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
Ener1, after receiving $118.5 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
Evergreen Solar, after receiving millions of dollars from the state of Massachusetts, filed for bankruptcy protection.
SpectraWatt, backed by Intel and Goldman Sachs, filed for bankruptcy protection.
Beacon Power, after receiving $43 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
Abound Solar, after receiving $400 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
Amonix, after receiving $5.9 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
Babcock & Brown (an Australian company), after receiving $178 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
A123 Systems, after receiving $279 million from DOE, shipped some bad batteries and is barely operating. It cut jobs.
Solar Trust for America, after receiving a $2.1-billion loan guarantee from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
Nevada Geothermal, after receiving $98.5 million from DOE, warns of potential defaults in new SEC filings.
These are taxpayer dollars given to these companies, that supported Obama’s election campaign.
MCDAVE
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 11:52pmThese were pay offs disguised as green investments ,,,,the biggest rip off of the American tax payers in the history of our nation…..Can anyone name an Obama success in green energy that makes economic sense and is not funded by the tax payers?
Report Post »FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:59amCan anyone say “LOSER”? Someone needs to stamp the mans forehead with an “L”.
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:27pmThe good thing is in January he`ll be free to go the country of his choice to be their President and work his majic like he did here. Hasn`t been great.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:26pmI counted 7 mentions of G.W. Bush in that article.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:39pmStill running against Bush … even the AP.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 4:15pmAP====absolutely PATHETIC
They are knee deep in NO CREDIBILITY
OMG 2012!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 11:42pm“and many people would still prefer Obama over his presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney.”
When you read the AP you might as well be reading the huffington post. At least they don’t try to cover up their slant.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:26pmWe have like 80% of our population that has no clue of whats going on. I could careless what the world thinks!
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:25pmHe certainly has been disastrous for every man, woman, and child in the USA. He is the pathetic, disaster of disasters.
However, among the ridiculous MSM, the Inept Ears Mesiah isn’t doing too bad. Wah, Wah, Wah… the elite have given him a Nobel Prize , Two Tony Awards, Two Grammy’s, an Oscar, two Time Man of the year’s, Two People’s choice awards, Two Playgirl Man of the year’s, and 3 Marconi awards. The commie media isn’t in the tank for Oblameo, No..Not them…
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:22pmWORLD…. How’s that “Hopey Changey” think working out for you folks? Well, let us tell you about that for a spell. Take a seat, listen closely and learn…
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