Vote Obama: A Celebrity President the World Will Adore
Ok, let’s just get this over with: I am voting for Barack Obama. The reason is quite simple. I want a celebrity president that the world adores. Forget about policy. I yearn for the day when people stop me on the streets of foreign capitals and say, “Hey, you’re from that shining city on the hill aren’t you? Would you like to marry my daughter?”
For the past few years when I am traveling abroad and I forget to lie and say “I am Canadian,” I get that disquieting look of reproach, followed by an awkward break in the conversation; as if I told them that I have come for their first born or I do credit checks for a mortgage company.
Obama can change that. While he may very well be lacking in substance, he has that smile, that style, that pop-ish persona that can only boost our image overseas. And what’s wrong with that? If the naysayers are right, and we are headed for a socialist state under King Barack, then our businesses are going to need all the help they can get when committing acts of commerce abroad.
Now some of you who have read this far might say that I am being anti-American or that I am selling this great country short. I can see the comments now: “You moron! That is just nonsense! America is the greatest country on earth! Everyone wants to come here!”
While I am not in the habit of pinching total strangers, might I suggest that yes, you are dreaming. The reason people want to come to America is not necessarily because America is such a great country, but because their own country more than likely sucks.
“Vote Obama:”
Not in this lifetime.
Funny!
Wait, I’ve got an idea!…Why not vote for Obama because people really want to turn the page on the Bush Administration Foreign Policy…Nah….Hey, speaking of Socialism, let’s go with Obama since we’re further down that path with Bush, than any Dem has taken us!…Nah…OK, we don’t need no stinking popular president who may help the world forget about Cowboy diplomacy right!…Nah…OK, let’s vote for the guy who’s displayed the temperment in his decisions without rushing ahead on a plan only to go in reverse 2 days later!….Nah…OK then Let’s vote for McCain!….YAAY!!
Very good point!
I can’t understand people who want to vote for the big O, because we are already on the way to socialism, or they don’t want to vote for McCain, because he is not conservative enough, so they vote for the MOST liberal guy on the ticket.
BUT I can understand people who want to vote for him, because he is a celebrity……
You are just trying to provoke a worlwide newspaper crisis. If all the world’s intellectuals, journalists, and pundits can’t write about the horrors of America and its president, the papers will be trying to sell blank paper. This would surely be an aesthetic plus for the bird cages of the world, but do people really love their birds enough to shell out for an item that doesn’t provide a dose of moral superiority? I fear the writers would use their unemployment as yet another reason to hate America and they would start the ball rolling all over again. I fear you will have to continue to claim Canadian citizenship.
Those other countries and their residents who hate us are generally panderers and appeasers to Islamists who are now suffering because of their pandering and appeasement.
If being different from that begets their hatred, then I wear that hatred as a badge of honor.
Bobby,
Please keep saying you’re Canadian.
It’s better than cynical humor.
Keep laughing…until your articles have to “be cleared” by a government-certified “editor”…
But by then, your “jokes” won’t be so funny anymore….
you cannot go wrong with a president loved by iran, venezuela, hamas.
Really, a rockstar president must be proud of having such fans
It is interesting that Europeans who disparage American culture as celebrity-obsessed and superficial favor Obama. Oh well, they’ll learn to hate him in time.
i think secretly many Europeans hope that the US doesn’t vote in Obama. Then they can distract from all their problems by decrying Americans for being racist et al. Journalists in European depend on being able to say “yes we have a problem but at least we are better than America…” or “this policy is not working but at least we don’t have the American system…”
And what will comedians do without Bush?
Well I promise you it will be a lot easier to vote for Obama for his second, third, and fourth terms (see New York City) than for his first term. The new U.S. Agency for Truth in Broadcasting, Commissioner Schumer presiding, will ensure it.
Personally, I am sick and tired of the Celebrity and just want Hollywood to go away; please Celebrity do what you always promise, pack your Louis Vitton bags and move to another part of the world.
Please Celebrity, do this for the world move out of America so that we can live in peace and prosperity once again.
However listen good Celebrity, if you insist upon staying and imposing your ultimate Celebrity icon upon my life I will be first in line to demand half of your profits.
This means you Spielberg, Clooney, Howards, Hanks, Streisand…if you want the Celebrity seizing prosperity I will personally come knowcking at your doors demanding a nice fat check from you.
I can’t decide which I home I’ll go to first, Streisand’s Malibu Mansion with an unobstructed view of the ocean or George Clooney’s Italian Villa with a beautiful view of Tuscany.
Who will be joining me in seizing all Celebrity profits if the Celebrity wins the November election?
Just by electing Obama our standing in the world would flower, finally the terrible years of Bush is over, the world will be dancing of joy and so would Americans.
The GOP president Bush has left us with two unfinished wars, 700 billion deficit and 11.3 trillion in debt. How can any body vote for this party again? The GOP’s lend and spend policy has ruin America.
The next president must balance the budget and start paying off old debt. To do that be prepared for massive budget cuts and tax increases, whatever it takes to balance the budget, there is no other way if we would like to have a tomorrow. It is our fault, we have been wreck less in voting for all the tax cuts without caring about how they were financed by our children. Those days are over for ever, if not we are finished.
Obviously only meet socialists when you are travel around the world, perhaps you’re one yourself. I’ve have lived outside of the US for around 8 years (of my adult life). I would be embarassed if I claimed to be a Canadian citizen. Just last year I spent 11 months traveling through Asia, Australia, Africa, & Europe and never once meet any foreign national with a negative view of the US…The majority want to come to the US for a better life. If you want Socialism vote Obama, something I could never do, I already have voted for Mccain, the only hope for the US to retain it’s standing and dignity around the world.
Vote McCain!!!!
#13 – You contradict yourself.
One one hand, you say no one should trust (i.e. vote for) the GOP.
This suggests you recomment a vote for ZerObama.
On the other hand, you say, “The next president must balance the budget and start paying off old debt. To do that be prepared for massive budget cuts…,” which is exactly the opposite of what ZerObama has promised to do.
Sorry, “Johnny,” If you really care about government spending less, VOTE McCAIN.
Hey, Bobby, here’s a better idea! Could you pass for Sioux? When my girlfriend and I traveled through Great Britain and Europe, we told everybody we were American INDIANS and were wined and dined all the way. Had a champagne breakfast with the Mayor of Unkel, Germany. We were too young and dumb to know WHY they loved us. (We were America’s First Victims.) All these years later, I now know that it’s the same reason they love Obama (America’s Second Victim -even if Obama’s black ancestors never spent one minute toiling in cotton fields.)
If I knew then what I know now, I would have told my European winers/diners/whiners that I was an Orginialist American – like Justice Scalia and Clarence Thomas. For the same reason, I’ll vote for McCain-Palin.
O/T but I want to sprinkle this everywhere especially in light of Biden’s interview with the FL reporter.
Important distinction that NEEDS to be made over and over again between now and Nov. 4.
When Obama talks about reducing taxes for 95% of working Americans he is only talking about income taxes. He is not talking about payroll taxes which is where the funding for new programs will come from.
The nationalized health care plan the Dems are salivating about is a 7% payroll tax, the new retirement plan to replace our 401k’s is a 5% payroll tax, and the wage insurance is a 1% payroll tax for a total new tax burden of 13%. Add that to the current 6% Social Security payroll tax and the 1% (or more) Medicare payroll tax and we’re looking at a payroll tax burden in excess of 20% which is not subject to the deductions the income tax is.
No one is exempt from payroll taxes so Obama is simply lying.
Given the headline, I hadn’t expected something quite so ironic and lightwieght. I don’t mind. I’m a fan or irony myself.
But the headline is serious enough that some things can be said. First, I haven’t heard “peep” out of McCain/Palin about anything in foreign policy besides, “Obama wants to surrender in Iraq and negotiate with terrorists.” Oh, yes, and Sarah Palin can see Russia across the Bering strait.
Your candidates have made the election about “character” and not “issues”. So 9 days from the election is really a fine time for you to trot out that there is a gap in Obama’s approaches to foreign policy. Where were all these McCain foreign policies at the RNC? Yes, I know, “drill, baby, drill.”
Character and not issues. What this essentially means is that you are going to convince people to vote against Obama, rather than for McCain.
The only problem with that is that everybody has been trying to do this since January. In fact, Hillary Clinton lost trying it. Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
It hasn’t worked.
Sometime when you have a free moment go back through the archives of PJM of the headlines from the RNC forward, You will find that the name Obama appears in them most, Palin is next, and McCain a far distant third.
The downside of constantly trashing Obama, if it doesn’t work, is that you are constantly adding to his celebrity. Obama. Obama. Obama. Over and over.
So people get interested in Obama, and not McCain.
The Obama campaign has produced a highly effective set of ads with nothing but Obama talking straight to the camera. People who see them come away convinced that they know who and what Barack Obama is. Whether that conviction is right or wrong is beside the point. It is there.
And no amount of portentious commercials with scary voiceovers ["Who is Barack Obama?"] is likely to erode that conviction, which seems to those viewers to be based on first hand experience.
And the McCain advertising is, once again, repeating over and over, Obama, Obama, Obama.
If Obama is a celebrity, he has largely been made so by his political opponents, just like Republicans [back when they had more sense] kept putting out the message over and over; Nixon’s the One or I Like Ike.
I have an idea, why dont you really move to Canada and forget the great United States of America. Don’t ever come back. This country is too good for you!
europe must be forgetting that “with obama, (one) get supporters”.
send them to craigslist’s political forums. that’ll fix ‘em.
for life.
which city? start with the a’s.
never in my life have i seen such vile, hateful, racist, YES, REVERSELY RACIST, people congregating simultaneously in one location. it is apparent they have been trained that a verbal beatdown wins votes and influences holdouts.
Actually, the article’s premise is sheer genius, Vote for Obama and the furriners’ll love us, the economy will tank, and all of the illegal immigrants will flee to some other place when this worker’s paradise fails to materialize.
..we’ll be able to shop at Home Depot without being assailed by hordes of day workers.
“The GOP president Bush has left us with two unfinished wars, 700 billion deficit and 11.3 trillion in debt. How can any body vote for this party again? The GOP’s lend and spend policy has ruin America.”
One WAR, two fronts in that war. A War we are winning. How much will it cost to lose that war? If Ayer’s coup attempt works and Ohhhhh…….BAAMA! steals the election, we will find out.
America isn’t ruined. You show ignorance when you make that claim.
http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/index.cfm?event=showavgDecades&decade=2000
When President Bush was sworn in the Dow was around 9500. It is a little lower now, after the Democratic Congress created the current financial crisis in order to gain the White House.
Unemployment is now about where it was during the CLinton administration. Disposable wealth is about the same, as are most other economic indicators. We have fought and won a major campaign in a global war. So how can you claim that America is ruined? Have you ever lived outside of America?
America is no Utopia and never will be. It is still betterthen anyplace else. That is all that is needed, the rest is up to you.
If you have had a rough 8 years, it is YOUR fault. Changing the party in the white house won’t change that. You will still have a rough time of it. The first step to changing that is realizing that it’s your fault, not the government’s.
Eric: Good points, but it’s even worse than you state. The current > 7% FICA (Social Security + medicare) payroll Tax is a big lie. The lie is the part about “the employer paying the other half”. This is nothing but a stunt to make the payroll tax seem more palletable to the gullible masses. If employers were not burdened by this extra tax, they would certainly be able to pay more competetive salaries to their employees, or invest it elsewhere in their business, thus helping the economy as a whole. Thus the actual current payroll tax bunden is closer to 15%, making the future possible payroll tax burden under Obama closer to 30%.
syn: Cloony’s villa is actually in Lombardi (on Como Lake), not Tuscany. My wife made me drive there so she could snap pictures of his gate while we were visiting last summer. Fortunately, she lets me fill out her ballot for her. Otherwise, she’d end up cancelling out all my sane votes.
My friend: did you ask any of those Europeans , in particular, you met, if they would like an Obama for their president? more precisely, a Turk for president in Germany, a Moroccan in France, etc. Not that I am against it, but would they let that happen? The moral of the story is not at all the racist implication as some might conclude, but the fact that a great nation like yours, that is America is they only one that brought hope to people like Obama, Only in America as the saying goes; the rest, particularly Europe (and I am a European) is pure hypocrisy !!!!!!!!!!!
Everthing will be allright when we all start praying to Alla five times a day,and the government is running every aspect of our lives.
You do know that most of the Toyota cars sold in America are made in America, just not in Detroit, right? As for taxes, real competition means you get to keep the fruits of your labor when you succeed, not be burdened with more taxes and regulation that confiscate the fruits of your labor and make it harder for you to work.
TO: All
RE: “The World Will Adore”?
Why am I suddenly reminded of that warning in that Old Book….
And I thought the passage was referring to the Holy Mount…..
….maybe it’s not just THERE.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. If Obama is elected president, how much ya wanna bet the CIA increases the thickness of their file on me?
P.S. I played around with the wort ‘abomination’ in that passage from Matthew…..it’s not really in that Old Book like that, but I’m reminded how the lettering for some city near the mouth of the Euphrates has changed from the First Century until 1990.
I think the chief reason to vote for Obama is because if we all do, the economy will recover miraculously overnight. McCain will lead us down into the doldrums of a depression. Neither of these will have anything to do with them doing anything: trust me, the day after Obama’s election, the story in the media will be the “Obama Miracle” that causes the recovery of the economy, sparked by a “New Spirit of Optimism” sweeping across America. Just watch.
“The GOP president Bush has left us with two unfinished wars”
So did Roosevelt and the libby wibbies love him to death.
Don’t like that Bush has left us with two wars? Re-elect him so he can finish the wars!
Chuck – Blasphemer! God will smite thee! Prepare for Judgment! Any second now….
You have an FBI file? Really? Um… do I have one, too? (tremble)
some toyotas may be made in America, but their profits go back to Japan. When you include their supply train and administration, it’s obvious that much more money goes to Americans per unit when you purchase a Chrysler, Ford, or GM product.
And Ford at least is now a match for any car on the road. GM still has a little catching up to do but depending on the model can be at the front of the class (eg. Malibu, any Buick, etc.)
Marc Malone yes apparently we all have an FBI file as i found out in paperworking for myself here in France…and you’re right this is funny, however dear article author I am assming that you ar being extremely facisist (I hope I got that right-you know “tongue-in-cheek” otherwise you’re VERY scary)
Oh France seems to be screaming about all of their young people running off to work in the scary unsocialized medicine USA of all horrors, and that just because they can get this horror MAKE MORE MONEY!!
When I first started reading this I expected it to be satirical in explaining that voting a celebrity for president for the sake of celebrity itself is dumb. I was disappointed to hear our friebd was dead serious. The world isn’t a popularity contest, the European heathens don’t vote here, and they certainly won’t elect anyone just because we like him. The president is the only person in the entire executive branch that we elect, and we have to chose the most capable person for that job. Barry Hussein can be ambassador to Kenya. After all, he helped that government come into power anyway.
Is it Obamalies or Lies Obama tells?
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=73
If there is a “President Obama” in our future, he’ll be popular and adored by “The World, Inc.”
Popular and adored…until, of course, he actually has to make a decision.
This is Obama’s achilles heel: he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room, but he also wants to be the most popular as well. Sorry, “Zero,” you can’t have it both ways, no matter how many adoring magazines slap your halo-rimmed photos on their covers.
Remember, for the world to adore Obama, America must lead in showing they love Obama first. He will only become our President if more Americans love him than McCain.
Maybe they just don’t want another fool at the wheel of what is still the most powerful country on Earth.
By the way, is “Middle America” really a code phrase for “The Dumblands” (aka “Redneckistan”)?
http://www.asecular.com/ran/terms/redneckistan.htm
If the world particularly non democracys like our President we have selected the wrong President. A Democracy has never gone to war against another Democracy.
There will be no president barry. Polling companies encounter a persistent 60% refusal rate, ie, 60% of potential participants decline. The large obammie lead has ALWAYS been a big lie. However, there WILL be riots, due to the expectations engendered by the same big lie.
Gird your loins (sorry)…
“Barry Hussein can be ambassador to Kenya.”
I don’t know what Kenya did to make you mad, but it must have been something pretty fierce.
This HAS to be a joke. No one is this ignorant. Right??
If “Europe” (i.e., the media and elites) wants us to do something, you can bet it’s not in our best interest.
Well, as for those bored Canadians who are just “dying” to move to the U.S…
They just had a national election that took 14 weeks to elect the leader of their country. Politicians hit the road, debated, made their cases to the people.. and the people decided. And more importantly they didn’t waste hundreds upon hundreds of millions that could have gone to helping the people. Shameful.
Wake up people!
UNI-PARTY GOVERNMENT: A BAD IDEA
One party rule is ruinous, as explained at this link:
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/uni-party-government-very-bad-idea.html
Questioning the American Bolshevik views
1. Is wealth redistribution taking money from stockholders and redistributing it to those who don’t pay taxes?
2. Is it more important to make sure that illegal votes are not disenfranchised or making sure that groups like ACORN do not nullify honest votes.
3. Would premature U.S. withdrawal from Iraq grand jihadists a victory and make all of our accomplishments, money spent and lives lost a big waist?
4. Can this country afford to grant socialist Democrats total control of the government and allow them to sacrifice our safety by cutting the military budget by 25%?
Now comes the big question. How do we stop socialism from ruining our lives?
The answer is simple. Don’t vote American Bolsheviks into power and boycott the socialist propaganda media into bankruptcy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjvBEKrGkDI
Cybercorrespondent
Vote McCain….there is no other option!!
Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. … However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual … who … can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.
Friedrich Nitzsche
I like to imagine how much the Euros will love us after:
We pull out of Iraq, and it descends into civil war;
Iran gets a nuke or two, and then the entire Mideast becomes a nuclearized zone. Then Israel gets nuked, but they retaliate with all 18 of their nukes;
Russia just decides to occupy a neighbor, and America lacks the physical might to do anything about it, because we gutted our military again, as well as lacking a strong leader. Carter did it, and so did Clinton;
Yep, they’ll love us when we can no longer defend them.
The reason European countries love to hate the USA is to justify their socialistic governments. They are forced into ‘fairness’, keep much less income, and have little choices, why should AMERICANS get to be so free from government control? Remember, their media is completely in the tank for Obama, so they really have nothing but liberal disinformation to go on, almost as bad as those who live in the People’s Republic of San Francisco. It still amazes me that 90% of Obama supporters have no real idea why they like him in the first place.
Instead of lying (“I am Canadian.”), why not actually become a Canadian? That way, you don’t have to participate in the US system.
And you can join the world club in thumping your nose at us. And you don’t have to ‘hide’ or go to the extreme (travel abroad) to do that.
What a useless column.
I’m from Canada, and most people I talk to don’t want to move to America because “you have to work hard”. Yeah. Funny that. A superpower built on freedom and liberty and the belief that you get ahead if you WORK HARD, not a socialist nanny state that gives you everything.
The other first world countries in the world are the same:
UK = socialist nanny state
Australia = mildly socialist nanny state
Italy = total socialist nanny state
France = socialist nanny state complete with au pere and 6 weeks vacation
There’s a reason that people from countries like China and India come to America. They aren’t afraid of working hard to get ahead.
Obama is trying to sell the American people on “making it easy”. I just watched his 30 minute infomercial and it was one long song-and-dance about how everything should be easier. Everything will be given to you! Courtesy of the Dear Leader Obama.
If you go down that road your days of being a superpower are numbered. And yes, at that point, Italy and France and UK will love America. Because finally their socialist crapulence will have company.
Does anyone remember this famous line?
**United we will stand, divided we will fall.**
Which candidate is looking to unite America and the world? Which candidate is dividing America with a campaign full of fear, hate, and smear? Which candidate seems to be well received by the world’s communities? Which candidate seems to turn off the world’s communities? Which candidate is promoting positiveness and hope? Which candidate is promoting negativeness and doubt?
There is a common belief that one who promotes positiveness and hope tends to lead in a good way but one who promotes negativeness and doubt will only lead to disaster.
Unity must not only be attained in America but must also be attained throughout the world to win this war on terrorism. For the sake of the Good to survive in this world, it MUST unite for the common goal against Evil.
Ok America, think about this one and please think about this one very hard. America’s economy is no longer a domestic economy but only part of a broader picture, which is the global economy. America’s market is no longer a domestic market but only part of a broader picture, which is the global market.
Bush not only has one of the lowest approval ratings of Presidents in the past and present, within our country. He also has one of the lowest approval ratings of U.S. Presidents in the past and present, throughout the world’s communities, mainly due to the unjustifiable Iraq War. This has damaged our standing in the world’s communities. The views of the world are currently very unfavorable towards America in a global market. What does that mean for the American public?
1) A world’s unfavorable view of America in a global market means that the world will be reluctant to buy many products made in America or use many services from America.
2) The world will be reluctant to invest in stocks, bonds, or any other financial investment packages from America, in the stock market.
3) Foreign investors will be reluctant to invest in American businesses, financial institutions, manufacturing, technology, military technology, and currency.
4) The world market will be more interested in exporting and less interested in importing from America.
Since our invasion of Iraq in 2003, we are seeing a major decline in one of our biggest market, which is the automobile market. While we are importing Japanese, German, Italian, and Korean automobiles and are buying them excessively now more so than ever; the world has been buying less American cars. GM, Ford, and Chevrolet have reported record losses and layoffs within these past 5 years.
A future President that will be viewed favorably throughout the world will not only strengthen our ties with the world’s communities, but will deepen America’s pockets for generations to come. So here is my wisdom for America —
~~~When one looks at a beautiful painting, one must not focus only on a small part of the painting or one will lose sight of the whole entire beautiful painting.~~~
They made such a big flap at the clothes the GOP offered Sarah to wear on the campaign…yet not one of the sleazy, disgusting slime of the MSM dares speak up that Barry is spending nearly twice that amount PER HOUR in his vain attempt to steal and destroy our cherished Constitution.
From one who had the misfortune to live in Europe for over 10 years (just ONE of the biggest mistakes of my life), how dare those furriners scoff and glare at America. If it wasn’t for the US they’d all be speaking German, or Japanese…if they were left speaking anything at all.
The reason they hate George so much is because he turned out to be nearly as left as BHO…so the past 8 years is just a taste of what is in store if we as a country are STUPID enough to elect that unworthy contestant next Tuesday. Let’s appoint him King, and have him live in Hollywood with all of his subjects. America needs an advocate in the Oval Office; not someone trying to win a popularity contest.~~~
The term “shocking” can’t even come close to describe the severity of the financial crisis that we are faced with. According to Barack Obama, the only way we can get out of this mess is for this country to adapt socialistic values and enforce socialism by gaining control of all three branches of government. I’m sure that the mountain of money his campaign has collected from domestic and foreign donors, names the Obama campaign won’t disclose, will be used for that purpose. As soon as total control is gained, organizations like ACORN will have a green light to further abuse the law to suppress free speech, control the outcomes of elections and brain wash children in schools to believe that socialism is the answer to all of our problems. With total control of the government, and help from people like Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright and Antoin Rezko, who will probably be pardoned, achieving the ultimate goal, “a life of sexual confusion and moral collapse” will become a strong possibility.
The proof that socialism, or spreading the wealth around does not work can be seen by examining ACORN and its accomplishments by manipulating bancs to make loans to minorities with bad credit. By using charges of racism and threats to use CRA to block business expansions, ACORN and Obama already contributed to the crises we are in today and finding new ways to distribute the wealth will only make the situation much worse. His idea to put a three-month moratorium on foreclosures will further weaken the already fragile banking industry and only benefit delinquent homeowners by allowing them to live rent-free.
In order for our economy to start prospering again, we first need to elect an honest leader who is determined to stamp out the corruption in government and to stop the leftist movement from destroying the middle class. The hard working people can no longer be expected to keep giving until they themselves have nothing left to give.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjvBEKrGkDI
Cybercorrespondent
http://cybercorrespondent.blogspot.com
Wow!
looking at these coments…I can see why so many people (non muslims I might add) dislike what Americans stand for. How Shallow can you all get!!
The comments that portray America as “The greatest Nation on earth!” make me wonder how many have bothered to read history books or travelled outside the “great” USA???