Barack Obama before 80,000 people in a Denver stadium tonight delivered a high impact speech which traveled across time zones to audiences around the world. It is no secret that this election is one which has awakened interest in politics deep in America as well as provoked interest around the world. There is no doubt his oratory skills, his message of change, his connection to the Kennedy presidency and legacy and other factors which have reflected Barack Obama’s presidency has catapulted this junior Senator to the world stage.
The BU household wishes Barack Obama best wishes and God speed in his quest for President of the United States – WIN, LOSE OR DRAW.
Banned Again From BFP // August 30, 2008 at 8:55 am
I sincerely hope Mr. Obama loses the election after what would appear to be a phenomenal showing in the lead up. Of course the excuse given will be that America is not yet ready for minority leadership, and the result is that the major parties will not risk having a non-white run for office again. Horay… oh goodie.
I hope not to be alive when a non-white leader of the world’s most powerful country believes that it is appropriate to behave and make decisions like a white man, while so many in the non-white world starve and have good reason to see him as an enemy. If such a person does come along, oh Lord please let him be a Chinee or an Indee but not a Black.
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This comment made me go hmmmmmm, very good! I love to think ……..
Let us say,this 72 yr old man dies in office , six months after having won the elctions. Can this novice really handle the position of president of america and she doesn’t even know or visited half the country or know anything beyond being in charge of just over 9000 people. This is a dark day for america and the world is laughing their heads off at the silly games being played.
Scout,
It is called the politics of serious desperation.
Much depends on how articulate she is, and the responses of Biden and Hilary Clinton.
I now believe that Obama should clinch it.
@Sargeant
If i am to be classified, I see myself as a constitutional libertarian, I abhor “statism”, collectivism and or socialism. The Democrats for the most part are socialist who believe in Big government. A candidate like Barack in spite of his color cannot ever get my support or vote. John McCain is not, nearly enough conservative for me but is the lesser of the two evils.
I have a pretty good understanding of American government, and have often said that to much emphasis is place on selecting the president as oppose to selecting members to the House, given that this is where the real power lies. I could never have hold to “experience” being a requirement for the presidency. To many of our Past Presidents did not have any or much. I never bought into the “experience” argument against Barack, and i never said anything because i don’t support him. This argument is as hallow as the one about being a trained Economist that was used and failed in the last Barbados election.
I don’t watch Fox news anymore, as i gave up cable.
Adrian,
The two presidential candidates are miles apart on vision for the good of America.
Your comments smack of being a die-hard, perpetual Republican Supporter.
War With Russia Is On The Agenda
by Paul Craig Roberts
SNIP
The failure of the American media is again evident in the coverage of the Georgian-Russian conflict. The US media presented the conflict as a Russian invasion of Georgia, whereas in actual fact the American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian military launched a sneak attack to kill and to drive the Russian population out of South Ossetia, a separatist province.
Russian peacekeepers, together with Georgian ones, had been stationed in South Ossetia since the early 1990s. On orders from Mikheil Saakashvili, the American puppet “president” of Georgia, the Georgian peacekeepers turned their weapons on the unsuspecting Russian peacekeepers and murdered them.
This action by Saakashvili, elected with money from the neoconservative National Endowment for Democracy, an election-rigging tool of US hegemony, was a war crime. In truth, the Russians should have hung Saakashvili, as he is far more guilty than was Saddam Hussein. But it is Russia, not Saakashvili, that the US media has demonized.
Americans have become perfect subjects for George Orwell’s Big Brother. They sit stupidly in front of the TV news or the New York Times or Washington Post and absorb the lies fed to them. What is wrong with Americans? Why do they put up with it? Are Americans the nation of sheep that Judge Andrew P. Napolitano says they are? Americans flaunt “freedom and democracy” and live under a Ministry of Propaganda. (my emphasis /GM)
Two decades ago, President Reagan reached agreement with Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev to end the dangerous cold war. But every one of Reagan’s successors has sought to pick a new fight with Russia. In violation of the agreement, NATO has been taken to Russia’s borders, and the US is determined to put former constituent parts of Russia herself into NATO. In an effort to neutralize Russia’s nuclear deterrent and compromise her independence, the US is putting anti-ballistic missile bases on Russia’s borders.
The gratuitously aggressive US military policy toward Russia will lead to nuclear war. I am confident that if Americans elect John McCain, or the Republicans steal another presidential election, there will be nuclear war in the second decade of the 21st century. The neocon lies, propaganda, macho flag-waving, and use of US foreign policy in the interests of a few military-security firms, oil companies, and Israel are all leading in that direction.
SNIP
Americans no longer have a government that is for the people and by the people. They have a government for and by special interests and an insane ideology.
But Americans have war, which lets them take out all their frustrations, resentments, and disappointments on “Muslim terrorists” and “Russian aggressors.” Few Americans are disturbed that 1.25 million Iraqis and an unknown number of Afghans have died as a result of American invasions based on Bush regime lies and deceptions. Even Americans, like Senator Biden, Obama’s selection for vice president, who understand that the wars are based on lies, still want the US to win. So, it was all a mistake and a deception, but let’s win anyway and keep on killing.
SNIP
For many Americans, war is like a sports contest in which they take vicarious pleasure and cheer on their side to victory. Millions of Americans are still bitter that “the liberal media” and war protesters caused America to lose the Vietnam war, and they are determined that this won’t happen again. These Americans have no realization that there was no more reason for the US to be fighting in Vietnam 40 years ago than to be fighting today in Iraq and Afghanistan or tomorrow in Iran.
Obama, if elected, is no guarantee against nuclear war. Obama has shown that he is as much under the Israel Lobby’s thumb as McCain. Obama’s foreign affairs advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, is not a neocon, but he was born in Warsaw, Poland, and has the Pole’s animosity toward Russia. The Bush administration has already changed US war doctrine to permit preemptive nuclear attack. With the US government determined to ring Russia with puppet states and military bases, war is inevitable.
Presidential appointees face confirmation in the Senate. Any of Obama’s appointees who might be out of step with plans for US and Israeli hegemony could expect opposition from large corporations and the Israel Lobby. There is no assurance that an Obama administration would not be positioned on “the issues” by the same special interests that have positioned the Bush administration.
Americans are filled with hubris, not with knowledge. They have no awareness of the calamity that their government’s pursuit of hegemony is bringing to themselves and to life on earth. (my emphasis /GM)
Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury in the Reagan Administration. He is a former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal, a 16-year columnist for Business Week, and a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service and Creator’s Syndicate in Los Angeles. He has held numerous university professorships, including the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by the President of France and the US Treasury’s Silver Medal for “outstanding contributions to the formulation of US economic policy.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9954
Facts // August 31, 2008 at 8:22 am
Adrian,
The two presidential candidates are miles apart on vision for the good of America.
Your comments smack of being a die-hard, perpetual Republican Supporter.
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Indeed miles apart. Obama’s policy positions are leftist in nature, The American communist i.e Liberal academia will love him. McCain is not trusted by core republicans, and has always had a warm relationship with Democrats, don’t forget he was “vetted” by John Kerry just 4 years ago to be his VP pick on a democratic ticket, and if McCain had his way he would have picked Joe Lieberman to be his running mate. McCain and Hammie Lah have something in common,…a willingness to put principle over party loyalty or towing the party line. McCain is more likely to govern from the middle where most Americans are. There is the politics of elections and real politics after elections. A look at both men over the years, their associations, written and verbal comments give us the best practices of what to expect if elected. I like what i see from John McCain over the years. Will any of the Obamanites dear ask Barack to explain is relationship with known American terrorist Bill Ayers? Will he refute that his Presidential bid was launch from Bill Ayers house? will he deny that Bill Ayers to this day is unrepentant for his group’s terrorist acts?
@Facts: I am not a supporter nor a member of a political party anywhere on this earth. I have voted for Ted Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy, Al Gore, George Bush, and would have voted for Mitt Rommey if he had won the Republican nomination no matter who the Democratic nominee would have been, I would have voted for Hillary Clinton before John McCain, and i am voting for John McCain now the dust is settle. I had never considered Obama. I just could not bring myself to vote for someone on the basis of their skin color, as it seems all dark skin people are suppose to demostrate their individuality by so doing. I just happen to practice a real and different kind of individualism
Green Monkey you usually put up some good articles but this one is in consistent from paragraph to paragraph, and it’s prophetic title isn’t supported by anything in the details. What has Mr. Roberts seen so far in rhetoric, foreign policy activity and or military troop movement to suggest such. I don’t support the US backing of the Georgian leader in this crisis, as it was clear that he could not be reasoned with and that he was unpredictable from day one, yet Russia history is one of invading and conquering, how can you seemly agree with the constant threats that Russia issues against Poland and other sovereign countries? How do you hedge against a repeat of Soviet style foreign policy by Russia under a leader who thinks the Soviet Union is still viable?
Dear Green MOnkey
You quoted General Smedley Butler speaking in 1933. In 1933 Adolf Hitler had come to power in Germany. American tried to maintain a policy of neutrality and General Butler was speaking in this vain. However war began in Europe, Germany bombed Pearl Harbor and America could no longer remain neutral. After Hitler was finished with killing the Jews he planned to re-enslave black people – slavery in much of the Western Hemisphere had only been abolished less than 100 years previously. American did the right thing to enter the war. Neutraity in 1939-45 would have been wrong.
War is sometimes necessary.
But lo0k who it was that was helping to finance Hitler and bringing him to power. The financial and business elites, not only in Germany, but in the US as well, and this includes Prescott Bush, the grandfather of George Bush. Once again, as Butler was trying to explain, it is the elites and big business that manipulate the system for their own benefit and when wars they help create do break out, they make sure they profit one way or another, i.e. “war is a racket.”
Sort of reminds one of how the likes of well connected business people at Halliburton, Blackwater etc. profited immensely from Bush/Cheney manipulating the public and creating their own wars today.
Here’s a Youtube video discussing the Bush/Nazi connections
See also the timeline (below) showing the connections between Prescott Bush and other US business interests and the Nazis.
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/timeline.html
The point is that Gorbachev and Reagan agreed that when the Berlin wall came down and the Cold War was declared over Russia would withdraw its troops from Eastern European countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia etc. back within its own borders, and in return NATO, which had been formed ostensibly to repel a Soviet lead invasion of Western Europe, would allow Russia some breathing space and not push itself onto Russia’s doorstep, so to speak, by expanding Eastwards into the fomer Soviet block countries. In other words a militarily neutral buffer zone between NATO and Russia would exist that would offer the Russians some assurance that by pulling back their troops from the old Warsaw Pact countries they would not open themselves to invasion. Remember that Russia has also been invaded by Western European countries a few times over the years. This promise to Gorbachev was not honored by subsequent presidents who attempted to do exactly the opposite of what had been promised by encouraging the ex-Warsaw Pact countries, including Poland, to join NATO and thereby put NATO bases and missile batteries on Russia’s front door step.
Russia, quite rightly, feels it has been betrayed and played for a sucker as it now sees itself increasingly closely surrounded by NATO bases. Imagine if the situation were reversed and Russia was forming alliances with Central and South American countries and shipping them military equipment, training their armies, installing missile bases on Mexican soil etc. What do you think the reaction would be from Washington? Ho hum. No big deal. We can live with that? My understanding is the threats to Poland are in response to Poland agreeing to host a US missile system on its soil right next door to Russia. Let Russia put a missile base in Mexico and I can guarantee you, US troops would be on the Mexican/US border massing to invade in very short order. I doubt very much, they would even take the time to issue a threat before acting.
Russia also sees itself as under threat as it has one of the worlds largest remaining supplies of oil and natural gas outside the Middle East, and with the increasingly precarious world energy situation as the world is apparently soon going to reach a peak followed by a decline in oil and natural gas production. Russia is, quite rightly in my opinion, concerned that the encirclement of their territory by the Western NATO based alliance has as an ultimate goal the break up Russia itself in order to get control of oil and gas fields currently in Russian territory.
Well, well, well, is n’t life funny!! Here I am being accused of racism in the ‘Obama Assassination Attempt’ discussion on BFP whilst here, on BU, it’s ‘sister-blog’, a cartoon is being displayed which I find highly, offensive, in whichever context it’s intended because for me it suggests that blacks are only capable of singing and otherwise, playing-the-fool, especially at time when America may be on the verge of electing its first black, president!!
Is n’t life strange, but I could NEVER find it appropriate to use such a cartoon, yet, I AM THE ONE BEING ACCUSED OF RACISM!!
Wonders will never cease!!
Please see, also, the end of the ‘Wukking Up’ discussion, here!!
DID EVERYBODY MISS THE NEGATIVE, IMPACT OF THE CARTOON, EXCEPT ME?!!!!
Dear David, I know u don’t have much regard for my opinion, which is your right, but is there any possibility of your removing the offensive, cartoon, even though it’s Bimbro making the request?!!
Bimbro // September 2, 2008 at 12:43 am
DID EVERYBODY MISS THE NEGATIVE, IMPACT OF THE CARTOON, EXCEPT ME?!!!!
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Bimbro, you of all people should know that in todays Politically correct world it is ok for one black man to call himself and other blacks the “N” word while non-blacks are forbidden.
Adrian
I don’t agree with you. No-one whether black or white should be calling a black man at any time by the “N” word. It is offensive.
I hear young fellows now calling girls “bitch” and they are responding. I told my daughters, the day any fellow call them “bitch” and they respond, I would put their food and other belongings in one of my kennels and they can live there. I’m serious. Blacks need to respect themselves. That’s why you would never see me wear a slave band.
@The Scout…
You and I often do not agree. But on this particular point, I resonate *deeply* with you.
(IMHO) This word should never be uttered by *anyone*. It is too loaded with hate and prejudice.
Kindest regards to all.
@Bimbro
What about the image you don’t like?
Bimbro, you of all people should know that in todays Politically correct world it is ok for one black man to call himself and other blacks the “N” word while non-blacks are forbidden.
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Hi Adrian, and thanks for the reply. Yes, the irony and stupidity of it is absolutely, amazing!! For me, anybody, whatever his or her colour who refers to a black person as a ‘n’, ‘deserves to have their genitals cut off’!!
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The scout // September 2, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I hear young fellows now calling girls “bitch” and they are responding. I told my daughters, the day any fellow call them “bitch” and they respond, I would put their food and other belongings in one of my kennels and they can live there. I’m serious. Blacks need to respect themselves. That’s why you would never see me wear a slave band.
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Scout, I entirely, agree with u, but so do I think, does Adrian!! If by slave-band, u mean a wedding ring, I entirely, agree again!! Don’t c why the ladies need to wear one, either, for that matter. To me it makes us look like cattle, tethered by some ring or other!! I find them so amusing!!
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Hi David, thanks for replying, and I’m really, surprised that u need to ask!! Perhaps, u did n’t c the same ‘Black and White Minstrel Shows’ as I did, as a boy, on the telly with these white men, blacked-up and singing and, frankly, to an extent, looking like clowns, not to mention that idiot Al Jolson in the movies!!
David, to put it mildly, my friend, I prefer to think that black, people r capable of much more than simply, ‘acting-the-fool’ and to place the image in an article when a black man is aspiring to one of the highest, offices in the world, seems to be, more than inappropriate also, in an age when we’re supposed to be transmitting positive, images of black, people!! For me, this image is equally, offensive to the ‘golly wog’ emblem!! I know that we’ve probably, lived in different cultures but to me, the Al Jolson caricature is unacceptable, in whatever context!!
Thanks for listening!!
Basically, David, I feel that we need to take pride in ourselves, because if we don’t why should anybody else!!
I’m a Barbadian expat and am very pleased to see so many of my countrymen at home so engaged in this US election, and also that this site is giving so many of us and others alike the cance to air our opinions on this crucial presidential election. Thank you all.
Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore.
I’m a Barbadian expat and am very pleased to see so many of my countrymen at home so engaged in this US election, and also that this site is giving so many of us and others alike the chance to air our opinions on this crucial presidential election. Thank you all.
Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore.