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  • dude put the kool-aid down, please

  • I noticed that more people are not liking Mr O as much now. I never did like him.

  • @zebrainfart Not many Americans understand that Obama gave it the long term relief efforts, but the American people want the relief now

  • @h3aveNsHaZe I long term plan? You mean the plan that forces people to buy something that I and many other people don't want to buy? Or do you mean the plan that gives money to companies for mismanagement? Maybe to mean the plan that well allow anybody to come into the USA and live off the system and never pay a penny into the system?

    I would be happy to just have a job again.

    So please tell us what is this "Plan" you're talking about?

  • @zebrainfart If Barack was white, you'd probably have a different perspective. And as what you said in the last post, ''Never pay a penny''? You do realize every single American pays taxes, and most of them go into military funding. Now imagine what would happen if most of that funding went to medical/schooling? If you don't see it now, most of Europe, and Canada, all have free health benefits, and medical plans, but they do pay higher taxes.

  • @h3aveNsHaZe It has nothing to do with the color of his skin. So the "plan" your talking about is the "0 care". Ok So you think everybody pays taxes? LOL wish that was the case, there are a number of illegal immigrants. Those are the people I am taking about getting a free ride. There is no "flat rate tax" so that everybody pays taxes. When "O" was campaigning he did something over and over. He changed the things he believed in, he flipped many times. And the way the health care bill was passed.

  • lol yeah ... thank god america may get better, that has been bothering my mind for years ... phew, such a relief

    this idiot doesn´t know what he´s talking about

  • republican haters suck ,,,,,.........go obama you are the best president to stand for america......

  • The difference between Obama and Osama is the BS. hahaha! I saw that on a bumper sticker.I thought it was funny. I still respect him he is my president.

  • Obama is a a puppet!

  • Great speech.

  • If Obama cared about America he would reform NATO like he promised. If Obama cared about America he would not have outed the "Made in America" clause in the porkulus bill.

  • "the world economic picture took a sharp downturn after the election of Obama?"

    No, it did not. The world economy took a sharp downturn in *September, 2008*, when Bush was still (theoretically) running things. Further, even if it did happen in Obama's first month, it is absolutely impossible for one person to take a healthy economy and shove it in the toilet in ONE month, no matter who that person is or what their policies are.

    So regardless of the facts, you're talking nonsense.

  • we should continue to hate those that are bent on destroying us. Muslims want to destroy us, so we should wipe them out. plain and simple.

  • your exactly right we should continue to hate them.. because that will only make them want to like us more..And of course because EVERY SINGLE MUSLIM in the world wants to destroy us we should just wipe them out.. but wait wouldn't that mean that were just like them??.. wanting to destroy them for the simple fact that a percentage disagree with our way of life..

  • ur dumb

  • I cannot wait for the day to come when people no longer hate Muslims! We used to hate the Japanese/Germans/Italians but not anymore...we used to hate the Koreans and the Vietnamese but not anymore...now muslims!

  • como chileno... estoy de acuerdo contigo...

  • Europe loves Obama!

    Just a couple of hours to go...

  • Obama '08

    Bring America back to forefront.

  • watch?v=rdWjjvpH1Qw

    Somos Y MERECEMOS mejor que Obama ! El quiere nuestros

    VOTOS pero nunca hizo nada por los latinos en Chicago !

    Y miren como BHO dejo Chicago, de boca de latinos.!

    Busquen:

    Chicago Documentary: Where Is Obama?

    What Obama Left Behind in Chicago Video Obama DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE

  • Nice Video!

    I did one too about this whole debacle. I will send it to you. Tell me what you think.

    -TonyaTko

  • after the last 8 years Republicans arent voteable anymore.

  • I don't protest Bush because I love "America", which is actually USA, there is no such country as "America", but I protest G.W.B. because he is harming the world and all its countries one way or another, even when meaning to do good. He is just not fit to be a president.

  • Your dumb!

  • The group Vietnam Veterans Against McCain attacks Senator John McCain's heroism as a POW in the Vietnam conflict; this is making some waves in the news due to McCain's presidential candidacy.

    The documentary "Missing, Presumed Dead the Search for America's POWs" however focuses more on Senator John McCain successfully blocking the release of classified POW/MIA documents.

    Here is a DVD extra from that documentary. A DVD of the documentary may be purchased at MissingPresumedDead website

  • The alternative is?

  • How come Obama won't dicuss the off shore oil drilling that we NEED, and Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats ran away from Congress and the House to try and stall? Democrats are yuppie Cowards, and Obama will destroy America and what little respect people have for us.

  • No, the Republcans are ridiculous hyporcrites involved in political theatre. Any decison that congress makes about offshore drilling will not manifest itself for years, and it will be very small. Congress is on recess and a few months will not amount to squat despite Republican blowiating.

    Why don't you disconnect yourself from FAUX news and find out what is really going on? When the Republicans controlled congress they met only 2 DAYS A WEEK! And since, they have filibustered constantly.

  • This is some of the smartest stuff I've ever heard about anything.

  • he understands Bank of America. the giant ad on the right isn't big enough? they have to invade the videos space too. AND YOU BASTARDS TOLERATE IT LIKE SHEEP

  • stop talking shit.

  • Obama has served 143 DAYS BEFORE running for president... does he have experience???

    make up your own mind

  • tfbruin21,

    EXPERIENCE IS ONLY IMPORTANT IF LEADS YOU TO DEVELOP THE RIGHT JUDGEMENT...THEREFORE it doesn't matter if someone works 30 years in the same job like McCain and have no judgement, he is WRONG in every single issue about America and foreign policy...IF THE EXPERIENCE DOESN'T LEAD YOU TO RIGHT JUDGEMENT IT IS WORTHLESS... That is why brilliant people can have early success, they don't need to much experience to identify problems and solve them. We must recognize that in Obama.

  • McCain can eat a dick everybody knows OBAMA is going to win

  • JOHN McCainFOR PRESIDENT 2008!

  • to rightizright, how great is our economy now? How do terrorists feel about our country now?  How does the world view the United States now? Suck, suck, and sucks. This is Bush's mess, and your buddy McShame will only continue it. We need change we can believe in, so vote Barack Obama!

  • obama is smart harvard law school no dummys come from there he will gather the right people together like bill clinton did. they say obama is to young but jfk became president and was younger than obama is now.

  • LISTEN UP, PEOPLE.

    It's like this--all you who want 'change', a 'black' (NOT) president, or any of this other garbage--you go right ahead and elect Obama.

    By the time he gets through trashing our economy, our 'image' with other countries, flipflopping daily, cuddling with terrorists, and playing rock star, he will have humiliated the U.S.A. so badly that we will NEVER elect another black president.

    Colin Powell? Certainly. Condi Rice? Maybe.

    Barack Obama? Shame for America.

  • Im a veteran of the Iraq war and will be voting for obama. McCain wants us to continue to fight and die for what cause? We still dont know.

  • Well I agree that we should change for the better but does Obama offer that since we would be going back to the failed policies of the Carter administration. We should have change for the better but that comes down to people's own opinion and not one party's vision of that.

  • Name a policy Obama offer is similar to Carter. If you can't stop posting your bullent points without facts. Any change one makes is always in mind for the better. No wants to hear I will give you the same. Except what McBush offers

  • Let them believe in us???????

    I have never heard of anything so pathetic in my life. Do you honestly go around worried if some guy in germany doesn't believe in you.

    That big crowd was right after a very popular euro band played so they didn't come and see him.

  • What parts of the constitution are being flushed down the toilet? Did you say the 2nd amendment because that one has been getting trashed for a long time.

    Did you say that people who hate the way we do things are America haters? Do you mean like people hate capatilism and want to rip big business all the time. These are all America haters by the way.

  • Wow this was some smart and intelligent commentary. If other main stream medias could stop being so bias toward republicans and just report the news. Every American should have been proud. That doesn't take anything from people to congraulate each other, that's what American's pretend to be all about.

    When one of their own is seen around the world doing well, it should make all of us look good.And be proud.

  • obama will win i know he will

  • John Mcsame dared Barack to go, so be carful what you wish for. He was hoping he would fall on his face, or be poorly recieved, but he wasn't. Now they are calling him arrogant, presumptive, "he is acting like he is president already". Well Mcsame hs pamphlets wiht "president McCain" printed on them, Obama came of presidential becaus he is. Finally a smart, sharp, caring president. What a wonderfull change that would be. We must all do everything we can to elect Barack Obama.

  • Yes Nobama called McCains bluff, lol; and it did absolutely nothing for Nobama in the polls! Nobama with all the media coverage, and the Brittney Spears Paris Hilton Hoopla, has him leading by 2/3 points or dead even!! THATS HUGE if you understand politics. This trip actually alienated voters over 40, especially women! And forget him getting the veteran vote. Nobama has assumed the personality of his handlers. His wife hasn't been heard from either! They shut her down real fast.

  • You are right about the polls, but that is not what he did it for, and as for women, because john mcsame will overturn roe v wade, he also has voted against womens issues every time something has come up. He has even voted against making insurance co. paying for birth control pills when they pay for viagra, he called his wife a cunt infront of reporters and told a joke about a woman enjoying being raped by an ape. informed women will not vote for mcsame. How many dead troops are enough?

  • Also, as for vets, mcains record with vet orgs is bad, disabled vets gave obama a b pluse, mcsame got a d. mcsame was against the new gi bill, voted not to fund walter reid, voted agianst money for suicide help line and ptsd tharapy, he is not the man for votes, obama is polling very high with vets. but we will see in november. That is the only poll that matters.

  • Yeah they love America... riiight.

  • the point maked about foreign protesters not hating america but actually loving it, is true. im an american living in japan. im often asked if i "like" george bush.

    they tell me they dont hate america they just think bush has ruined it. and with the influence that america has, its a terrible thing.

    living here, when you tell someone youre american its not like it used to be. before, in japan especially, if you were an american you were a semi-celebrity. but now, theres a different feeling..

  • wtf this guy is retarded Germany picked hitler. We are picking our presidents like "American Idol". Does anybody listen to Obamas words? He is a moron.

  • let me guess... u voted for bush. ur the retard, obama will win cos he is the best candidate, if u don't like it... you can get out!

  • You know what is the different between saying love or leave it when someone burns the flag and saying it when they disrespect your favorite politician? One is saying you should leave the country because you hate where you live and the other is saying you should leave the country because you hate its political leader and that is a cult mentality.

  • Paul von Hindenburg picked Hitler (under duress, mind you), not Germany. Get your facts straight.

  • obamas well-tempered, rational and dutiful manner is somewhat close to the northern german mentality, probably a reason for the popularity

  • IMPEACHMENT NOW!!!

  • Google Jeff Fisher World Peace

    Now are the Young Turks part of the New World Order or are they for real World Peace

    I believe they are for World Peace

    HBO said BayPoint School in Recount.

    Barack is a big piece of shit for allowing the Bush Administration to continue covering up Israels part in the deaths of 35 teenagers at BayPoint School in Miami, Florida.

    By the way Jared of Subway foods is working with Jeff Fisher on a business deal that also involves Starbucks & Bally Sports!!

  • he gets 200,000 people in the middle of berlin because he's barack obama, more than because of what he's saying

  • Yes, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II were NWO driven as well. Now Obama is making it very clear with this speech that he intends to take it to a whole new level!! This is no random speech! It follows the NWO agenda precisely! Listen to the entire speech and go learn about the NWO and what it means for Americans!! Greyfox404, this is important! Learn about it!

  • what's wrong with a new world order? i think its inevitable with the internet, melting economies, outsourcing, large-scale immigration etc. in exobiology its called the transition from a type 0 to a type I civilization. it is thought to be the most dangerous of transitions that we may not pass if we continue to use local governments to meet global challenges. top jobs today will get outsourced to any part of the world with a decent internet connection. think about that. the NWO is *here*.

  • The problem is that the people who are at the head of the NWO arguably do not have the people's best interest in mind. They are interested in securing profits and power for the top 1 percent and having the rest be slaves in service.

    watch Zeitgeist

  • the problem is the american government has been hijacked by corporations that are the de-facto NWO (through lobbying etc). so if the oil corporations would like to invade iraq, the govt will find an excuse to do so. the american people, like all other peoples in the world, are a decent and hardworking, generous and largely benevolent people. they'd like to think they have a govt of the people who's foreign policy reflects their core american values. but they don't. barack is our last stand.

  • Let's hope Barack is what we want him to be and not another bought and paid politician. He certainly inspires hope and I hope he follows through.

  • If Obama gets popped, I'll believe you.. I still have hope...

  • I still have hope too.

  • These are not democrat ideas! This is the NWO agenda breaking out into plain sight! This is for real people!!

  • Not a choice? world citizenship? Required to do more, not less?? This has to be the boldest NWO speech ever to date!! Americans better wake up and fast!!

  • "Common security" is directly out of the NWO play book!! This is a "ONE WORLD" speech! Nobody can say this does not exist now!! This is insane!! The NWO is pure satanic evil!!

  • Americans better wake up fast! The NWO power brokers have a 54 year head start on us and at least the last three consecutive Presidents! This is important people! This speech broke entirely new ground as far as putting the NWO agenda out in public!! Learn all you can and listen to the full speech. These are NOT democrat ideas. This is the NWO coming for the knockout punch to America!!

  • you are so much more genius and in the zone when you're not talking about your misguided perception about the way men can't help needing to fuck any hole they see. you hanging out with some high rollin pimps or politicians or what?

  • you are probably a muslim why are you not in your country fighting for it 0613162k

  • So, a candidate who graduated 894 out of a class of 899 in the Naval Academy is a good choice?

    Oh, let's not forget he is 100 years old and bordering on SENILITY!

    Oh, let's not forget he subscribes to the same policies as the buffoon who is in office now!

    All McCain claims is that foriegn countries will "cower" because he is in office!

    B.S.- it's these cowboy tactics that has America hated throughout the World!

    No one is going to be "afraid of" an old DWARF MAN like John McCain!

  • America is so hated, that tourist still come here in record numbers! Illegals still come here in record numbers. foreigners still come here in record numbers to become AMERICAN CITIZENS! Yeah that shows real hatred for America. I did notice Barry didn't bring the wife Michelle on this trip! In fact where has Barry's wife been the past 6 weeks? A real man lets his team tell him to put the wife in the closet? Barry took this trip to change his policies once again to get REPUBLICAN votes! He FAILED

  • those tourists are just as stupid as you. ilegal grants come there because they can make in an hour there what they needed to work a day for in their homeland. an that isn't a good reason to come! it just expreses the injustice in the world

  • You are just full of Fux News talking points arnt you? Try to use your own mind for once. HMM. Why would Michelle not go on the trip with Barack? I can think of 3 very good reasons. He has kids you moron! You keep talking about Barack changing his POLICIES. Name one POLICY that he has changed. Or can you not speak without Fux News telling you what to say?

  • And what other politician doesn't have kids? He changed his policy on Washington D.C. lifting the ban on hand guns! He said, he hoped they wouldn't change the law. He was all for other states testing the 2nd amendment. He also said that sending 20,000 troops in the new attempted surge WOULD NOT WORK! Now he says it has. Its also well known the obamas have nannies. They used them for th epast year when she was shooting off her big mouth. Now she's in the closet! Get it yet MORON? lol u assclown

  • I think if we are so hated then we should stop giving money to these countries that hate us so much because we should spare them from their own hypocracy when they burn our flag on CNN but then ask us for money.

  • There is NOTHING wrong with Obama...nothing!

    He is by far the best candidate for President America has had in generations!

    John McCain is A JOKE! His platform is that he is a former POW...how stupid!...So, McCain is running on the fact he was DUMB ENOUGH to get captured by ENEMY SOLDIERS!

    McCain is a 100 year-old idiot! At least the idiot in office now is younger!

  • Obama's platform is change. Hasn't told anyone what that is but I think the communist socialist know what he is talking about.

  • He is actually 72 but considering that Carter is way older than him and heads to the mideast to talk with Hamas only shows you that age doesn't matter.

  • Spot on.

  • Oh man! I strongly believe that the world will be very disappointed if we don't elect Barak Obama.

  • Sure he's a black man that doesn't have a lot of experience, but I thinks washington experience is the worst kind of experience you can have. And judging by Dick Cheney, experience is not always a good thing.

  • This guy needs to put his foot in his mouth and shut the fuck up. I bet when obama becomes dictator hell be his pet!

  • I want Obama so I can pay higher energy prices, give my money to the poor countries, Germany and France will like us, roll back the Bush tax cuts, have free health care paid for by the tax payers, legalize several million illegals, cut military spending, take our troops out of Iraq while leaving a military reactionary and logistics force there.

    All hail the holy Obama, we should sacrifice a baby in his name.... we already do, it's called abortion.

    If only Obama's mother was pro-choice.

  • The Socialist Democratic Party, the baby killing machine! Their leader, pick one. Commie Obama! Or terrified of O'Reilly Obama! Or evil liberal fascist Obama! Or Anti-Christ Obama! Or racist Black Nationalist Obama! Or appease our enemies Obama! Or baby killer Obama! Or broke-back mountain Obama/corrupt media! Or Barack Hussein Obama! Or flipper Obama! Or throw granny under bus Obama! Or Jackson de-nuts Obama! Or buffoon Obama! Or fast Eddy Obama! Or????????

  • I love you The Young Turks

  • Obama 08!

  • No he understands Europe. He want America to be like them. America is not europe, people came to America to get away from assholes like him.

  • your white brothers and sisters will vote for obama because he dose not act like a stereotypical black man and thats what whites fear and dislike. Maybe Romny or Huckabee would of had a good chance but not macain not very many people approve of Bush who is a republican and that will not help macain in the voting booth. the out come of this next election has already been decided by the news networks based on the info they pump into mindless drones glued to the tv. Obama 08

  • Great rank, Cenk! That idiotic WSJ OpEd about Bush being Batman made me think only that the only thing that applies is that this Admin is every bit as pessimissic and paranoid as that film (which I did enjoy). The soundtrack to me absolutely captures the mindset of those who have been in charge the last 8 years. Afraid to the core just like you say.

  • yep! i agree, cenk! only a scoundrel would seek refuge in the flag pin of empty patriotism!

  • Go the young turks! Obama 2008! Say no more!

  • (cont. from previous post) Mcain is that their approach to a problem is treat the symptom and ignore the cause. Imagine how pointless it would be to start treating a person for fire burns when he is still standing in the fire - This is unfortunatley how the republican party handles problems. For the record I consider myself just right of centre politically.

  • As a Canadian I'm exicted to have Obama possibly as the next president. Finally someone in the White House who dioes not see the world as black and white, or have a us vs. them mentality. Terrorism, like many problems facing the United States is like a disease in that it has many symptoms. The problem with GWB and (see next post)

  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau addressing the Press Club in Washington, 1969:

    "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."

    The beast has looked a bit wild eyed and crazy in the past 8 years. Here's hoping for a return to the normality of only the occasional elephant fart.

  • " FREEDOM TO FASCISM" is all you need to watch!! Obama fits exactly online with his ideals and beliefs. You hear prepared speeches which he has written NOT ONE! This puppet wants to be president, because the under current really running the show knows he will do exactly what they tell him. Go back just 6 months and listen what he was saying and what has changed! He is only listening to the young and dumb; which has proven to be the downfall election day. THEY DONT VOTE IN BIG #'s

  • He diden't had a speech prepared he diden't look down at all. I think he spoke from his heart, but he needs to tell, HOW he's gonna do all those things

  • he could not be more specific and lay down policy in a foreign country simply because he is not the president of the united states yet. so he has to play the fine line now and not overstep his authority just yet.

  • yeah, but I was more talking about in america. Anyway he seems like a more competent leader and idealist than MCain

  • Young and Dumb? What is your education level? Obama has written speeches and is involved with every speech he gives. He is clearly not a puppet. Who is pulling the strings? I believe the real empty rhetoric is coming from people like yourself who refuse to listen to anything Obama has been saying.

  • Thats the problem, for a year thats all the media has played, his speeches! He has surrounded himself with the old clinton team who won it for bill. this is change? Fact is this guy has changed his tune on about every issue in just 3 short months. He's a pure socialist/Marxist. Anyone that believes raising the capital gains tax from 15% to 28% on the rich and they're tax to 42% then disperse it to the poor folks is not a marxist/socialist; then what is! More Gaffe's than Kerry!! he's a liar!

  • Your assertion that Obama is a "socialist/Marxist" is ridiculous for at least two reasons, first of which is that socialism and Marxism are not the same, and the second of which is that Obama is neither. What drivel. Actually this post of yours doesn't make any clear points. You start off on 6 unrelated tangents in 6 sentences (or fragments thereof) ending with two toss-off insults that are completely baseless. Did you think about what you were writing as you wrote? Get some schoolin'!

  • I can't wait to see how neocons try to paint him as a socialist or marxist when he picks Evan Bayh as his VP. That dog won't hunt.

  • If the fence is already red then there is no need to paint anything but to simply point out its color.

  • Its not that we think the things that Obama says makes him a marxist socialist. Its that he comes from a party that believes that.

  • The "socialist/Marxist" accusers seem to be poorly educated. I`ve never really undestood why some americans have a problem with taking care of the unfortunate- I think it is a part of a modern civilized country. You cannot choose your social background, true freedom is the freedom of opportunities, which means for instance that you can get a high education regardless of your parents financial situation.

  • even after all of obamas faults he's still a world better than a senile old fool

  • "his speeches! He has surrounded himself with the old clinton team who won it for bill. this is change?'

    Wow! how scary, we could be placed back into the 90's again with all those huge budget surpluses and an economy that is the envy of the world....what a horrible idea - Driving the country bankrupt sounds like a much better plan.

  • Budget surplus? lol....When Bush 1 left office clinton was handed a gold mine of an economy, that thrived for 5 to 6 years; until Clinton decdided to raise the capital gains tax and income tax on the rich. then his NAFTA treaty started reaping its benefits for foreign countries and chasing business away here. so by 1999 we were headed in a recession! As for you thinking in short terms , Bush 2 actually had better number the 1st 7 years, even after 9/11 and 2 wars MORON!

  • I'm from Europe and you hit the point right on the head with this video. Great inspirational speach in Berlin from Obama, in this following decade people are going to have to come to terms with the fact that technology (like youtube) is making the world smaller and we are all citizens of the same fragile world.

    Each one of us needs to take responsibility for change...one man can lead but cannot do it on his own.

  • Cenk is right about the cheney's and bush's of our country. They dont like the concept of America at all and i bet they and their followers and apologists never have.

    They hate Liberty. They hate Freedom. They hate Civil Rights. And they fucking HAAATE the Constitution.

    What they REALLY are is Loyalists.

    Descendants in ideology to the colonists who never fought the American Revolution, and in fact spoke out against it and praised the rule of the English crown. For they LOOOVE their king!

  • haha, how original is 63Whiskey?

  • thank god, yea.

    greetings from vienna ;)

  • all hail barrack obama the messiah is here that crowd in germany proves it

  • DO YOUR HOMEWORK. Obama is no better for America - look up Lyndon LaRouche and the reasons why America needs CHANGE NOW - and Obama isn't standing for change.

  • fuck ron paul

  • fuck 63whiskey

  • Very uncalled for. There is no need for disrespecting someone you have never meet.

  • i totally agree with cenk pretty much all of the world thinks we need america to become great again that's why we want obama well most of us do anyways 3 people here in canada might want mccain but i think they think he owns the french fries so they want more of that but the rest of us want a great president for america we hate bush cause he's fucking the world over not just usa

  • men praising other men.. how turkish

  • heheheeh ;)

  • Obama is no Ron Paul.

  • You guys know what bush would do for a crowd of 200,000 people that still tolerates his retard ass. I remember Clinton still got big crowds at the end of his second term, with political leaders around the world still wanting to see him. With Bush, he'd be lucky to not be lynched with pitch forks and torches.

  • I have to agree with tristanPEJ. 'America, leader of the free (?!) world' and 'idea of america' rant from you Cenk? What kind of nonsense is that. Just leave me alone in my humble little country and do not lead me to any light of freedom or unity of the people blah blah...have enough of that since the last sickening 7 bush years.

  • I can't help think what Europe will think of us if we elect McSame.

  • Europe will no longer think that Americans are stupid (You have after all re-elected Bush)

    If you elect McCain Europe will KNOW that Americans are stupid.

  • Sad, but true. When Bush got reelected in 04, London's Daily Mirror had the front page headline: How Can 58 Million People Be So Dumb?

  • We all need to be cautious about who we call stupid. Although as an American I agree putting Bush in the White House wasn't one of our better moments, lots of us didn't vote for him. More to the point, plenty of other Nations have put dubious leaders in power in their past. So look to your own history before starting the name calling.

  • who cares what others think of us??? this is so fking dumb that we teach our kids that it doesnt matter what the other kids think of them, that they are smart, pretty, cool, etc. but we as adults run around wondering what other idiots, with failed economic systems that see us as a threat, think about us... pure asininess

  • Lol, It's true, Bush would probably draw a crowd TWICE as big as Obama if he went abroad, but they'll all be protesters. lol.

  • Agreed. Lol

  • Dude that's what i've been saying all along. Protesters protest because they LOVE America, not because they HATE it!

  • You got it exactly right! The America we love is the America without torture, without Gitmo, but the America which instead defends human rights around the world and does not flush them down the toilet in the persuit of mere power or wealth. Because in the long run, societies become richer (intellectually, culturally) and more powerfull by staying to their ideals.

  • McCain voted with Bush 95% of the time in 2007 and 100% of the time in 2008.

    I love Bush, and I think McCain will do just as good a job.

    (being sarcastic)

  • Good job Cenk! REMIND people what the World is pleading for. America's success is the world's gain.

    OBAMA '08

  • his speech was great, but your lines about America "leading the world" is just sick and revolting. If anything we (the rest of the world) wanted America to learn from the Bush years that you are not the center of the universe, you do not lead the world. You are no more or less important than any other nation. I love Obama he will be a great leader for the US, but Americans really need to learn some humility on the international stage.

  • Beautiful speech. Sen. Obama is a very hardworking, eloquent individual.

  • Thank you for posting this video. I enjoyed it alot. I agree with you. Sen. Obama is a shining example of what hardworking, compassion, and optimism can do. I'm proud of him. Obama '08!!!!

  • yup yup trudat!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Cenk takes America too seriously. No one cares about America. We just want America to stop behaving arrogantly and like hypocits. The ego in this country is ridiculous. America tries to make itself important in the world. Unfortunately that sometimes come in the form of invasion.

  • Gotta agree

  • I agree that Cenk is overexaggerating about how much people care about America. But I think you're overexaggerating as well when saying no one cares about America. As much as people around the world watch American movies and listen to American music and emulate American culture and buy American products, obviously people care. And how the superpower behaves is a concern to citizens of foreign countries. They'd rather have Obama rather than another Bush.

  • Speaking a s Obama said a s a citizen of the world, I'll say that the world would rather have anyone but Bush.

    However, Obama's popularity is built on a false impression thanks to the US propoganda media machine, that he is an anti war candidate.

    Wrong. He is a continuation & actual expansion of the war on terror, dragging all NATO nations with him.

    1 will increase the Afghanistan war

    2 will start a new war in Pakistan

    3 continues occupation in Iraq

    What change? Vote Ralph Nader.

  • Obama

    Obama never said he wanted a "war" in Pakistan. He said he would strike al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan if he gets the intelligence and the Pakistani government can't/won't act -- meaning an airstrike or something similar -- not a full scale war with the nation of Pakistan. Obama is well aware that Bin Laden and other top leadership are hiding in the tribal region of Pakistan.

    He will draw down troops in Iraq.

    Afghanistan DOES need more troops.

  • Do you know that more civilians have been killed by air strike type bombs in Afghansiatn by NATO forces than the Taliban itself.

    Is it any wonder why violence has increased in Afghanistan seeing you as an invading enemy.

    Your media doesn't show you the human cost of war. It makes you think somehow using war is a means of peace and liberation.

    Infact the US media unlike the other NATO nations has zero coverage of the Afghanistan war.

    You are confusing resistance to occupation to terroism.

  • I agree with you in that coverage could be better, no doubt about that. However name me one news organization that does have manipulative intent. Many regard news organizations that often supports their views are good, but however regard others as biased. As non-white Canadian, while travelling in Europe I experienced a lot of racism and hatred - European media may offer better coverage in Afghanistan, but turn a blind in regards to other issues such as treatment of minorities.

  • No media is perfect, and every country has to use an international media source to find out more of the actions of their own government I find.

    But the US media is the biggest propoganda war machine I've ever seen and it has helped me understand their views. US CNN is very different from international CNN on the coverage of IRaq, Afghanistan, Israele- Palestine.

    They never report how many civilians died in Afghanistan, Iraq & soon Pakistan by NATO bombs to understand resistance to occupation.

  • We see this quite often in media in where countries are engaged in conflict. Russia - Chechnya conflict, France and the colonies in Africa....heck we even seen it here in Canada when our police and military were in two armed engagements with groups of our aboriginal people (Oka and Gufstistan Lake) The news was essentially geared towards to nationalist belief. When I watched the America new regarding the conflicts here in Canda it was completely different.

  • Also,I find that some of the US media does report the facts, but then they engage in impossing candidates on the audience that are actually against their very positions, and denying information on candidates that are anti war.This channel, the young turks is an example.

    Look up youtube video by TYT entitled:

    "U.S. Bombs Killing Afghanistan Civilians"

    where Cenk is against the bombings in Afghanistan.

    Yet he's forcing us to support Obama knowing he'll increase war in Afghanistan& Pakistan!

  • Don't get me wrong as I do agree with you on a lot of points and as it currently stands I prefer Euro over America. But unfortunatley like America, many in Europe still have the white privilege mentality.

  • I myself am an ethnic miority but I'm lucky where I live in Britain there is a lot of integration in schools and the work places.

    But there are always pockets in each country that have perhaps by chance have racial homogeney which often results in racial tensions. Some European countries do have racism in sport that is rasing awareness to.

    There does need to be awareness, but also people need to careful not to take isolated events and present them as representative of the population.

  • Some very good points in your post, thank you. Regards to the racism issue, unfortunatley what we experienced were not isolated incidents and seem to be reflective of a wide spread sentiment. I am not as optomestic as you as I see racism everywhere across all political spectrums through all areas of life and from all groups (white and non-white). What actually scares me the most is not so much the racist, but rather the people who smile and deny there is a problem.

  • Maybe your media hasn't informed you on something that happen on 911 about 8 years ago. thats why we are there because the taliban decided to attack us so we just did not up and attack the country for no reason.

  • Don't be ridiculous. If our media hadn't informed us about 9/11 NATO nations wouldn't nbe dragged into this conflict in Afghanistan.

    However, it is AL Qaeda not theTaliban that were responsible for 9/11.

    The Taliban are a threat to their own people, but it is not America's responsibility to try to restructure a country to "shape democracy" using military intervention in the process of trying to get the culprits repsponsible.Y has increaseed support for vilence in resistance to occupation.

  • LOL...it is awesome watching the OBAMAites become hawks when months ago they were little cowards scared of defending Iraq from Al-Queda. Now they are all about a surge in Afghanistan. I wonder if Obama is going to have his daughters enlist and fight in Afghanistan when they turn 18. Fucking Chicken Hawks.