Good news from Axelrod: Anti-Americanism “isn’t cool anymore”
posted at 6:43 pm on April 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
Never has the essential fatuity of The One’s foreign-policy vision been expressed so succinctly. This really is the core of their strategy to get people back on America’s team. Obama’s “coolness.”
“What’s happened is anti-Americanism isn’t cool anymore,” Mr. Axelrod said, speaking to an audience of a few hundred at a conference in Washington sponsored by the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.
“This president has not only engaged the leaders of the world, he’s engaged the people of the world,” Mr. Axelrod said, arguing that Mr. Obama’s approach to foreign policy has restored “a sense of humility” that “was missing” in the past.
It won’t get us combat troops from Europe for Afghanistan, and it won’t stop Iran’s nuclear processing, and it won’t change Zawahiri’s jihadi boilerplate even a little bit, but other than that it’s a whole new world. Interesting admission by Axe hidden in this formulation, incidentally — that the anti-Americanism of the Bush years was, to some greater or lesser extent, a pose, based not just on policy disagreement but on being thought fashionable or bien pensant. If Bush-hatred was that superficial, how superficial is Obama-worship?
Semi-related, here’s Spanish-language video of The One appearing to scold his new pal, presumably for not finding him sufficiently cool as to prevent that cheap stunt with the book on Saturday.
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Wow, Axelrod is almost as “cool” as O’bama is.
The getalifes are in charge now.
Del Dolemonte on April 20, 2009 at 6:46 PM
So now I know what it feels like to be angry enough to stroke out. These criminals have no shame.
anniekc on April 20, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Al Quaeda to Axelrod, just after the next terrorist attack: “We never got the memo.”
evergreen on April 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Regardless of your party affiliation, the office of the President deserves some level of respect. Instead of holding KKK rallies the republican party should come up with a better way to build their party
nice343 on April 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Man I feel so good knowing these guys are piloting the controls.
PSH.
Why do I feel an figurative engine stall coming one of these days?
blatantblue on April 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
LOL
Hows that alternate reality you’re living in, and how can I join you?
I’m sick of Democrats ruining the real world, so maybe I’ll join you in yours!
blatantblue on April 20, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Because of course what is cool, and what other countries think, matters.
*groan*
Dr. Manhattan on April 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM
why don’t u go and die.
Chudi on April 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM
If O is indeed “showing a pair” in that video, I would certainly be a tad less humiliated as an American. Maybe he doesn’t need to go around pointing fingers in every dictator’s chest in front of a room full of cameras, but if he was as ticked off as this video presumes him to be, he could’ve have shown a little more backbone in public. Of course, he could just be suffering from a damaged ego. Hard to know with this guy.
XWing5 on April 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Dude, I was 100% with you in the elections when you often stated how intelligent Obama is.. But when I listen to him now, and watch the policies rolling out of the usa day after day, and I watch him behave like a royal buffoon on the international stage – I’m not so sure anymore. He seems like a real dumba** so far. Guy reminds me of Alfred E Neuman more & more.
saus on April 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM
KKK rallies? Is that what you thought last week was all about? Funny, I didn’t see any white sheets or cross burning. In fact the only member of of the KKK is a Democrat Senator from West Virginia.
Agent of the Cross on April 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM
David, I don’t hate America. I hate you.
Realist on April 20, 2009 at 6:54 PM
KKK rallies were more a democrat gig (Byrd, et al). Oh, by the way, you’re amazingly ignorant.
zeebeach on April 20, 2009 at 6:54 PM
This guy looks like Goofy
I’m waiting to see big white gloves
blatantblue on April 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Ahhhh… just as I thought…
Its all about Form, over substance.
Romeo13 on April 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Mr. Propaganda is going to find out that after eight years of a combined effort from the Left, Democrats, Movies, TV, and the MSM to trash the United States in an all out war against President George W. Bush just for political means…………..
………… it will not be so easy to turn off the switch around the world.
Unless you go groveling on your knees………..
……… oh wait?
Seven Percent Solution on April 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
OK, not the ONLY member of the KKK. I meant the only KKK member of the US Senate.
You know damn good and well nice that without Republican help LBJ would never have passed the “Great Society”. Deal with it.
Agent of the Cross on April 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Agreed. The problem with this is that we have NO idea what was said. He did look pretty pissed though. Chavez still had his way with Obama. Obama is probably mad he called him ignorant.
deidre on April 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM
So when exactly was it cool to be a drug addled hippie?
nice343 is one maybe she knows. Is her real name “Ima Douche”, ala Ann Coulter’s column?
kirkill on April 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM
The party is fine…it’s the liberals within the party which are the problem.
Wasn’t David Duke involved in leftist anti Iraq war protests? Wasn’t Robert Byrd a former klansman? OK, just wondering.
Mommypundit on April 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM
True enough. Based on his “performance” these last couple of weeks, it is hard to give him the benefit of the doubt.
XWing5 on April 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM
“some level of respect”, you lefturds sure did set that bar low when Bush was POTUS.
kirkill on April 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Yeah, I’m sure you were all about showing Bush some respect just because he was the president. The left is showing it’s hypocrisy … AGAIN.
/yawn
BardMan on April 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM
First of all respect is earned and not endowed upon any office . . . the rest of your diatribe is utter insanity.
rplat on April 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Great point, AP!
Weight of Glory on April 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Whatever Obama told Chavez, Chavez shrugged it off.
On the title, how could a cold-hearted person be anything but cool? Just keep on the look out. What Obama giveth with one hand, he taketh away with the other in spades. Whatever the “Anti-American” definition is at any given moment, don’t blink or you’ll miss its revision.
Axelrod turns on a dime. You could bank on Axelrod personifying a boogie man if you had any money and your bank weren’t shut down.
Don’t bother translating “Anti-American” since only Obama has the PC cult’s permission to promote it, though under the newly stoked guise of a “cool” analytical approach.
maverick muse on April 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Whew, I’m glad he straightened me out on that one, I’m obviously behind the times on what’s cool and what isn’t/NOT!
Like I would take advice about what’s cool and what isn’t cool from this fish-faced nerd that probably spent most of his high school days hiding in his locker!
So when their guy is POTUS dissent is NOT COOL but when a repub is POTUS dissent is VERY COOL I get it!
It’s not their hypocrisy that amazes me, it’s the fact they think no one will notice their obvious hypocrisy…what f-ing morons!
Liberty or Death on April 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Anti-Americanism is the liberal way.
10 things you didn’t see at the TEA parties
R D on April 20, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Allah-
Axelrod’s right, unless I’m missing some context here.
It sounds like he was saying that it wasn’t an easy, popular pose to take in Europe and the rest of the world to be reflexively anti-American, and then when the United States asks for help you say, “I’d love to help but I myself have an election to win, and you’re just not popular over here, so you see…sorry.”
Anyway, that argument is gone. I have no idea what it will mean in terms of policy – it might be totally meaningless. But you can’t just say, “Well if we’re too pro-American,we’ll lose, so sorry about your foreign policy goals.”
This was, in a tangential sense, one of the reasons why I voted for Obama. Not that the extremists care – they don’t. But it’s awfully difficult for a Zawahiri to recruit new members to fight “the Great Satan” when the Great Satan is Obama as opposed to Bush.
Proud Rino on April 20, 2009 at 6:59 PM
These guys act as if Obama were some celebrity rather than President of the United States. It is all about being cool or chic or hip or something. What happens when Obama is not cool anymore?
Terrye on April 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Ya know…if you spent more time reading and respecting Meghan McCain, you would know what was cool…just sayin’.
anniekc on April 20, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Peer Pressure!
cackcon on April 20, 2009 at 7:01 PM
You know what’s cool?
Israel will bomb the shit out of Iran’s nuclear facilites in the next few weeks WITHOUT approval of the Child-King.
What will Barry do then?
omnipotent on April 20, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Proud Rino:
I think you are missing the point. Europeans still don’t like Americans. Latin American dictators still disrepect the President. Russians still look for an opening. etc. Other than getting slobbered over by the press, there is no indication at all that people are any less anti American than they were before.
Terrye on April 20, 2009 at 7:02 PM
I’m really astounded at the trolls lately.
They are quick to the threads
blatantblue on April 20, 2009 at 7:03 PM
It hard to get excited about a guy named “Axelrod” . . . perhaps he could change it to “Crankshaft” or even “Dipstick”.
rplat on April 20, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Maybe he has thrown the bomber overboard? Naw, not likely.
The more you hear, the more you realize just how much Obama sounds like Ayers and Wright.
tarpon on April 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Racists!
The height of liberal discourse.
rockhead on April 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM
I am sure that some foreigners like Obama, because they think he is more like them. Bush was too American for them. However, that does not mean they like Americans and when and if the day comes that Obama stops kissing their collective a**es I wonder if they will like him.
BTW, Africans always liked Bush, he had a very high approval rating there. Not all the world hated the US then, nor does all the world hate us now.
But the people who are rabidly anti American are not going to change their minds because of Obama.
Terrye on April 20, 2009 at 7:05 PM
The oceans go back to rising, the planet stops healing itself, yadda yadda yadda…
tgibson1962 on April 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
What I will be saying to a certain President in 2013.
Glenn Jericho on April 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Supplanting ridicule for “hatred” suffices, allowing that motivation AND manner of delivery affect the tone. Given that the Bush-ridicule was so superficial, it is that much worse for Obama because the ridicule at Obama’s expense is absolutely internationally genuine. NO ONE called Bush a pantywaist president; everyone in Europe snickers that Obama is.
In Latin America, Obama has taken the measure without a microphone to establish the sense that he can converse without a teleprompter. Good for him.
maverick muse on April 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM
http://www.thesmirkingchimp.com
Del Dolemonte on April 20, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Good one.
anniekc on April 20, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Animal Farm
TheBigOldDog on April 20, 2009 at 7:11 PM
uh huh this here is more evidence of the lack of knowledge regarding history. The KKK is an extreme left wing of the Democrat Party. It always has been and its foundation is in the Democrat party. In fact the FBI when from its early days of monitoring it had it pegged for what it was when it was founded and extension of the radicals in the Democrat Party.
Racism is a leftist ideal much like all things that are evil in this world to include fascism (National socialism key word being socialism), Socialism, Communism, Statism etc and so on.
Lefties need to project their evil onto their enemies in order to feel good about themselves but in the end it does not change the fact that evil continues to exist in the world due to leftist ideology and leftist apathy to do the right thing.
theguardianii on April 20, 2009 at 7:12 PM
I will give the same level of respect to Obama as the left gave to Bush.
That would be Z-E-R-O for those of you in Rio Lindo…
ladyingray on April 20, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Here is how I think it went down:
Obama: Look, you don’t know me. How can you say I am ignorant. You don’t know me at all. How can you say that stuff about someone you don’t even know. I’m “cool.”
Chavez: Yeah, okay. Here is a book.
deidre on April 20, 2009 at 7:12 PM
In tonight’s performance the part of getalife will be played by nice343
TheBigOldDog on April 20, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Yes. And the rest of the world’s dirtbags wetting their pants in fear over what the USA would do when pushed too far. Like when the hostages were released as soon as Reagan was sworn in. Those were the days. Waaay Cool.
tru2tx on April 20, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Canadians were just disrespectful during the American national Anthem at the Monrteal-Boston Game. I guess they didn’t get Axelrod’s memo in Montreal.
TheBigOldDog on April 20, 2009 at 7:15 PM
I always find it interesting that we’re told how “Everyone hates Americans”, but whenever I happen to be at any tourist attraction, Nat’l park, oceon, etc., all I see are people from other countries anxious to experience what we are and have. Not to mention the millions who have decided we have so much going for us that they chose to live here illegally. Maybe Obama is wrong…maybe we aren’t so bad.
anniekc on April 20, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Well played, AP.
I would add only that anti-Americanism has never been cool, except with Euro-statists, totalitarians, tyrants and the New Left. This might be lost on Axelrod, as guru to the POTUS who marinated for a lifetime in the views of people like Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
The Obama Doctrine seems to have been formulated by his wife: There has not been much to be proud of America for in the period Before Obama… but now The One is here, and the world needs to get on board. Good luck with that.
Karl on April 20, 2009 at 7:18 PM
The kkk was a terrorist arm of the democrat party. You cant change facts and history, but you should learn from it.
canditaylor68 on April 20, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Yeah…. because we all know the Goal is to be “Cool”…
Not smart… not powerfull… not safe… not rich…. its all about the Cool baby…
Romeo13 on April 20, 2009 at 7:20 PM
+100
Obviously the re-education camp didn’t reach your area yet. The history books remain intact…..for now.
portlandon on April 20, 2009 at 7:21 PM
If we as a nation did away with the pro-American Government nationalism, we’d be better off. Both sides would rather play the silly “who’s more patriotic” game.
The Dean on April 20, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Regardless of your party affiliation, the office of the President deserves some level of respect. Instead of holding KKK rallies the republican party should come up with a better way to build their party
nice343 on April 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
First off, I can’t tell you how offended I am, by that statement. I’m sure this wasn’t in your thought processes when the office was being trashed daily by the left, when Mr. Bush was the President.
Secondly….were you this protective of the office, when the left, was so harsh, and trashing Palin, and her children on a daily basis? A trashing that still continues today? Were you this worried about the respect for the office, while Obama essentially trashes the constitution? Are you this protective of the office, while this President, is schmoozing with dictators, and tyrants?
Seems funny. I’ve seen vitriol from both parties, but this election, was by far the worst, and the trophy definitely goes to the liberal left darlin.
capejasmine on April 20, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Your kidding right? Didn’t the Iranians storm the American embassy while, the very nice Jimmy Carter was President? The first world trade center bombing was under the sexy, Bubba Clinton. The Marine Barracks were bombed under Regan and 9/11 under Bush. It would appear they care not who is in office, they just hate us.
Kjeil on April 20, 2009 at 7:26 PM
When you vote to elect a president of your own country because you think other countries will like it better . . . well, I’m at a loss for words for how lame that is.
Pathetic, actually.
Alana on April 20, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Ahahahaha! :D rofl!
Alana on April 20, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Heh. I’m sure Axelrod meant Zawahiri and Ahmadinejad. He could not have meant “Europe, Turkey and Latin America” seeing as how this is where Obama went. Wait. This is exactly what he meant. To which your response is:
Nevermind the grandiose achievement of his predecessor who spent 8 years to build a “OMFG, you forgot Poland!!1″ coalition. Obama couldn’t even get us European troops in the middle of a global recession after his first major trip overseas. A failure, indeed.
This change of hear isn’t entire superficial. Obama isn’t tied to any foreign policy decisions by Bush, which last time I checked, is what the GOP was running on in 2008. So we have a guy who comes across as nice, and who was against all the stuff that many Europeans were against.
How he proceeds from here is indeed a big question. And it is indeed true that while the previous moron did more than his fair share to screw things up, many problems in the world including those mentioned by AP exist regardless of Bush: Iran, North Korea, Venezuela. Still this kind of whining would be laughed out of this site if a Republican were in office.
Give him more time. And I don’t mean sit silently. We can argue about the measures he’s taking, but expecting any result at this point is silly.
Also, beware what you wish for. If he manages to stop the Iranian nuclear program, the GOP is out of power for millenia.
radiofreevillage on April 20, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Regardless of your party affiliation, the office of the President deserves some level of respect. Instead of holding KKK rallies the republican party should come up with a better way to build their party
nice343 on April 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
WOW!!! If ignorance is bliss, you are one happy M F’r. 99% of the posters here respect the office Obama holds, the only ones that I see obsessed with his race is the left, we simply can’t stomach his policies, and lack of a spine. When will you people finally figure it out, it is not color, it is content of character, SHEESH…no wonder MLK was a Republican!
Check your history of the KKK, OMG!!! they’re all Democrats.
While you still ride your high horse, and most likely feel that those sophisticated European types have it all figured out, answer me one question, when has any Eurapeon Country EVER elected a Black Man/Woman to the office of Prime Minister? WELL…
Yes we have our faults, but never ask me to apologize for being an American, we need not, nor does our President! Let other Nations look within themselves before they judge us.
M-14 2go on April 20, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Anti-Americanism isn’t COOL . . . . unless it comes from HIS OWN PARTY?!
What a Hack-of-Hyper-HYPOCRACY!
IKIDYOUNOT on April 20, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Heh. I’m sure Axelrod meant Zawahiri and Ahmadinejad. He could not have meant “Europe, Turkey and Latin America” seeing as how this is where Obama went. Wait. This is exactly what he meant. To which your response is:
Nevermind the grandiose achievement of his predecessor who spent 8 years to build a “OMFG, you forgot Poland!!1″ coalition. Obama couldn’t even get us European troops in the middle of a global recession after his first major trip overseas. A failure, indeed.
This change of hear isn’t entire superficial. Obama isn’t tied to any foreign policy decisions by Bush, which last time I checked, is what the GOP was running on in 2008. So we have a guy who comes across as nice, and who was against all the stuff that many Europeans were against.
How he proceeds from here is indeed a big question. And it is indeed true that while the previous moron did more than his fair share to screw things up, many problems in the world including those mentioned by AP exist regardless of Bush: Iran, North Korea, Venezuela. Still this kind of whining would be laughed out of this site if a Republican were in office.
Give him more time. And I don’t mean sit silently. We can argue about the measures he’s taking, but expecting any result at this point is silly.
Also, beware what you wish for. If he manages to stop the Iranian nuclear program, the GOP is out of power for millenia.
radiofreevillage on April 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM
I liked it better when Chavez hated us. At least North Korea was starting to get a clue. Now it is full steam ahead for every socialist/marxist dictator in the world.
Including Obama.
izoneguy on April 20, 2009 at 7:35 PM
nice343 on April 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Obvious troll is obvious.
Ortzinator on April 20, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Then we should use easy words.
And simple sentences.
Nothing too hard.
Kralizec on April 20, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Garofalo, is that you?
calbear on April 20, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Not cool to be Anti-American unless you are;
1.)The apologize for America Presidente Pinnochio!
2.)The Presidente Pinnochio out to turn America into a socialistic cesspool by destroying it’s wealth producers!
3.) Harry Reid and Party saying the war is lost and attempting to subvert the effort while troops are winning it!
4.) A clueless Obamabot as 50% of the public itself proved to be!
5.) A leg tingling member of the mainstream media!
6.) A liberal college professor who has never had a real job just went from high school to college to teaching in college!
7.) One of Obamas Terrorist friends or Spiritual mentors!
We heard from you Anti-Americans and you’re going to hear from all of us soon!
Pass the Tea and Tea Parties Please!
dhunter on April 20, 2009 at 7:36 PM
nice343 on April 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
this is where you and the other idiots are wrong. The president has to earn respect from the Americian people. He is not a king, nor is he a “special person”. He is simply a human being who was able to raise alot of money and say what he needed to to win an election. The office is what deserves respect not the man/woman in the office. And that respect for that office has been earned over 230 years by man making the tough decsions and placing the country first.
Obama has not earned a large majority of the countries respect. In fact he is losing respect on a daily basis by putting himself above the country. when he goes abroad he is no longer Obama he is the personification of america its past, present and future. his words say he is apart from the country. He deserves no respect infact he deserves scorn and ridicule for his actions in the last 3 months.
unseen on April 20, 2009 at 7:43 PM
radiofreevillage on April 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM
LOL…where can I get what you are smoking?
unseen on April 20, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Anti-Americanism is not cool, it’s hot.
Has anyone seen any photos of Obama beaming with, say, the C.E.O. of Exxon-Mobil? As for the size of the military budget, is he freaking serious? How big a budget did the 19 9/11 hijackers have?
Buy Danish on April 20, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Agreed. Anti-Americanism isn’t cool.
So when’s Axelrod gonna tell Obama?
swash_plate on April 20, 2009 at 7:49 PM
unseen says of Barry Whosane: ‘He is simply a human being who was able to raise alot of money and say what he needed to to win an election’…he raised alot of foreign money, money from Soros and every other anti-American with billions. he was able to mesmerize alot of people who want gov’t to take care of them….get the white guilt vote and the black racist vote.
AP says: If Bush-hatred was that superficial, how superficial is Obama-worship?” That’s an excellent question. unfortunately you won’t get an Obama lover to answer it.
I doubt that Obama scolded Hugo…He loves the book and many Americans do too…it shot up to 1st on the NYSlimes’s best-seller list.
It’s like Obama has a book club now!
Christine on April 20, 2009 at 7:50 PM
That Axelfraud is one clever propagandist especially considering that his product, Obama, has singlehandedly made it cool to hate America with his anti-American friends, speeches and “America Sucks” word tour.
OxyCon on April 20, 2009 at 7:53 PM
radiofreevillage:
Obama has done nothing thus far but embarrass and apologize for this country. As for the GOP being out of power…I would not be so sure of that. I am old enough that I have heard that song before, from both sides of the aisle.
Terrye on April 20, 2009 at 7:53 PM
We are at war,
Unpatriotic.
Sound familiar?
Hypocrites.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 7:53 PM
I have read some foolish statement from trolls on this site, but this has to be in contention for one of the most dumbest ones in history.
kam582 on April 20, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Part time patriots- only when your party is in charge.
Hypocrites.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM
I never heard Bush say that anyone who disagreed with him was unpatriotic. I never heard Bush go to a foreign country and criticize a former President. I never saw a foreign leader rant at Bush for 45 minutes. I never saw Hugo Chavez slobber all over Bush. I never saw the Russians laugh at Bush. I never saw the Europeans treat Bush like a movie star and then dis him.
No, Bush was not the one who called people who disagreed with him unpatriotic.
But I have heard people in the Obama administration say something very much like that about Tea Party protestors, veterans, and Republicans.
Terrye on April 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM
.
It will be awfully easy to deliver the same degree of damage with LESS members to “the Great Satan” when the Great Satan is Obama as opposed to Bush.
Sorta negates the need to expend the resources to recruit as many additional members.
And, when the defenses are diminished, even less opposition is required.
News2Use on April 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM
radiofreevillage on April 20, 2009 at 7:32 PM
no that post deserves more of a response. first of all Obama is tied to alot of the policies that Bush was. it’s called allainces, treaties, friendships. These things like eastern europe’s (poland) friendship were decades in the making. It cost american lives and treasure to secure that friendship. America lived under the threat of MAD for decades to secure the release and freedom of eastern Europe. We activily engaged the Soviets economically, politically and in proxy wars for generations to secure that friendship. Obama is not king. He has certain responsibilites as President one being to understand the goals of the country for the last oh i don’t know 230 years to bring freedom into the world. Not to pissoff our friends and embrace the enemies of that freedom. If Obama wants to dissovle our treaties and alliances there is ways to do that.
As far as Iran what is going to make them stop now? Obama going to ask them pretty please with sugar on top? the Jews will bomb them and then Obama will have to choose between the Jewish homeland or Muslims. I already know who he wants to support. Will the country let him. will we forget our history and allow another 6 million jews to die so that the rest of the middle east “will like us”?
And what of the millions south of our border who dream of freedom? What did Obama’s embrace of Chevez and ortaga and Castro do to them? Do you thing the freedom loving people will still love us? with every move Obama is making as many enemies as he is friends…and if he moves totally away from Americian’s forgein policy of the last 70 years will our allies stick with us. will they be able to trust the word of the americian’s again. Of will they understand that our policies and views will and can change from one day to the next? Who will invest in us as a military allie if they can not count on us being there when we the next president comes into office.
Idiots like you have no understanding of world affairs. you use feelings to dictate your world view instead of reasoning and logic. If it feels good it must be good right?
unseen on April 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM
I don’t know, the Somalian pirates have no problem hating Obama and recruiting new pirates. The Pakistanis are not feeling all warm and cuddly toward him, what with the drones still dropping bombs. So I guess that the whole thing of getting rid of Bush did not take care of hating Americans when it comes to Zawhiri and his friends.
Democrats forget that Osama declared war on the United States when Bill Clinton was president.
Terrye on April 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
So, do we now have confirmation that it was “cool” when O was hangin’ with Ayers, Wright, et al?!
jeanneb on April 20, 2009 at 8:03 PM
unseen:
That is true. After all if Obama runs out on the eastern Europeans that is just like putting them out on a limb and sawing it off. Why would anyone else want to be in that position?
Terrye on April 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Part time patriots- only when your party is in charge.
Hypocrites.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM
WRONG!!!! I’ll always be a Patriot, no matter who’s in charge. I will always defend my country, from enemies abroad, or within.
Find another argument.
M-14 2go on April 20, 2009 at 8:05 PM
The junta occupying the White House is as anti-American as they come.
As to the rest of the world. Screw them.
progressoverpeace on April 20, 2009 at 8:05 PM
I guess cons not read this post:
New video shows less friendly encounter between Obama and Chavez.
Thanks AP.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Well, I know that more than anything else I want my president to be doing what all the “cool” kids are doing. So if anti-Americanism is out, I want my Prez to be out front of the newest trend.
That’s how we judge a great leader — by how well they don the trappings of the current fads.
Cripes, the stupidity of this Administration is astonishing.
cruadin on April 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Democrats forget that Osama declared war on the United States when Bill Clinton was president.
Terrye on April 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
They also forget that iran declared war on us when carter was president and are still at war with us in deed as well as word. And Obama is going to allow our avowed enemy, the one that says it will destroy us get the bomb. Insanity does not begin to describe this policy.
unseen on April 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Unfortunately for Axelrod, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright didnt get the memo about anti Americanism… scratch that, they are “patriotic” dissenters right ? Yeah, that’s right.
“not cool” are two very revealing words to have been used by Axelrod. Is any one even surprised that he would say something like this? Not me.
nagee76 on April 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM
I like your brevity. :-)
Whereas getaclue tries but just cannot pull it off.
tru2tx on April 20, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Part time patriots- only when your party is in charge.
Hypocrites.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM
WRONG!!!! I’ll always be a Patriot, no matter who’s in charge. I will always defend my country, from enemies abroad, or within.
Find another argument.
M-14 2go on April 20, 2009 at 8:05 PM
that’s the problem with the left that think you love the country because of who is in charge. Most conservatives love the country because of the consitution not who is in charge on any given year. Our military and politicians take an oath to defend the consitution not the Presidenacy, or the Congress but the piece of paper that is our founding. If those in charge decide to rule in a way that is outside of that consituion than not only our military but our population is duty bound to resist that effort. that is what being a patriot is. For ideas and ideals not for a person. The majority of people in the armed services did not sign up because they wanted to fight for GW Bush. They signed up to protect this country, to expanded our ideas to other people that have never known freedom. Americians do not fight for any man nor for any party. We fight for our ideas.
unseen on April 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Hog Wild on April 20, 2009 at 8:12 PM
dang it…. hit preview first, hit preview first
Hog Wild on April 20, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Not that your argument has any legs anyway, but according to the Obama lexicon we are not at war, so what are you talking about?
Buy Danish on April 20, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Not that your argument has any legs anyway, but according to the Obama lexicon we are not at war, so what are you talking about?
Buy Danish on April 20, 2009 at 8:16 PM
GOOOOD ONE>>!!!!
unseen on April 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Part time patriots- only when their party is in charge.
jdkchem on April 20, 2009 at 8:20 PM
According the DHS secretary, we are not at war. We are at “man made disasters”. So there.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM
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