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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SouthFloridaGuy who wrote (31939)	9/11/2008 2:01:18 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I strongly AGREE with your e mail. I have spent the last 47 years travelling abroad as a Navy Demolition diver, businessman, State Dept. Officer and as a tourist and actually lived overseas for 10 years of that 47 year period. (Including 3 years in a Moslem country) . I have visited 84 countries and worked in 34 of them. Our current stock is extremely low overseas, and our current real power , save for our incredible military power, is the lowest i have ever seen. It is tragic how the Bushies have squandered so much and have run our country into the ground. We had the world ready to work with us in any way possible in late 2001 and the idiot GWB threw that away. Although our preoccupation with military stuff has robbed us of our #1 status in many areas there is still a great deal of buried goodwill around the world towards the american people which we do not have to squander further with misguided arrogance posing as strength, instead we need to build partnerships and alliances to beat the terror threat and to offset the rise of Russian nationalism which we have inadvertently encouraged through our misguided energy and defense policies.

To: SouthFloridaGuy who wrote (31939)	9/11/2008 2:02:38 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

Yes, and I work for an international company and work with people from other countries all the time. In the office next door to me is a Russian national born in Kazakhstan. A week ago I was part of a seminar with coworkers from Russia (3), Canada (4), Scotland, (1), Norway (1), Germany (1), Malaysia (2), Australia (2), Indonesia (2), Nigeria (2), Libya (1) - two African teams didn't have representatives. On the question of Obama versus McCain: people literally ask me all the time, "What is wrong with you people?" When you say this in America people respond, "I don't care what others think." They have a point. Foreigners excessive interest in our politics is inappropriate and its arrogant for them to try to intervene. I don't tell any of the non-US folks I deal with daily who they should vote for in their countries. Furthermore, many foreigners know only what they read in their press and see in the movies. They are hardly well-informed, nor do they necessarily have our best interests at heart. New Yorkers besides that traitor Giuliani know what this country needs and it's not more xenophobia. And as much as we like to make fun of the French, if Middle America were stand up citizens, they would say, you know what, they were right about Iraq. I thought calling people traitors and bad citizens over political differences was sypposed to be a bad thing. Is that only for conservatives?