sent to me in e-mail don't have a link.....
here is what some of europe thinks of us....
The Daily Mail (UK)
wrote this editorial about Obama on 1/6/2009.
(confirmation, Google
"London Daily Mail Obama's Victory")
Obama's Victory--A British view
A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad
racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned
any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America
largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous
and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special
interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for
the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but
has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer
in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with
his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over
history, rabble-raising over reality.
A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the
world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon.
Victory for those who prefer welfare Victory for those who prefer welfare
to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group
think and herd mentality, rather than those who fight for individual
initiative and the right tobe out of step with meager political fashion.
Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his
people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to
be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within
that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers
constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television
stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative.
Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be
censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and
open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies
who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.
A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to
raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers' unions
to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West
is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve
as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.
A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to
the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity,
failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation.
A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social
extremists and urban snobs.
Congratulations America ! Your funeral will be sooner than you
think!
