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2006-11-08 International-UN-NGOs

World sees vote as start of new foreign policy

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Posted by ed 2006-11-08 16:07|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Don't count on it.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-11-08 16:26|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2006-11-08 16:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe this will inspire the Iraqis to quit s_iting around and accelerate their security plans.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-11-08 16:38|| 2006-11-08 16:38|| Front Page Top

#3 One Frenchman, teacher Jean-Pierre Charpemtrat, 53, said it was about time U.S. voters figured out what much of the rest of the world already knew. Americans are realizing that you cant found the politics of a country on patriotic passion and reflexes, he said.

How Phrench of him.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-08 16:39|| 2006-11-08 16:39|| Front Page Top

#4 The world don't understand demo's are seriously paranoid about national security and if a attack comes here they will probably overreact and there will be no press to tell them to stop. It will be worst for them.

Posted by djohn66 2006-11-08 16:47|| 2006-11-08 16:47|| Front Page Top

#5
Israel is doomed.

Posted by Master of Obvious 2006-11-08 16:49|| 2006-11-08 16:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, said he welcomed the election result but hoped for more. Bush deserves to be removed, put on trial and given a Saddam-like death sentence, he said.

That's okay, Hafiz. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. Wanna hear mine? Someday Pakistan should glow in the dark for about a thousand years...

Posted by tu3031 2006-11-08 16:54|| 2006-11-08 16:54|| Front Page Top

#7 In my darker moments since the elections I feel Osama was right: we Americans simply don't have the stomach to finish the job. Hell, we don't have the stomach to properly start the job, IMO.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-11-08 17:00|| 2006-11-08 17:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I bet a lot of Europeans are wondering who the Dems will put up as Prime Minister and they'll be in for a shock when they realize Bush has two more years still.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-11-08 17:10|| 2006-11-08 17:10|| Front Page Top

#9 When I was in France a few months ago I was asked (twice) if I was going to vote for Bush in the next election.

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Posted by Parabellum 2006-11-08 17:21|| 2006-11-08 17:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Peace in our time.

Posted by anon 2006-11-08 17:22|| 2006-11-08 17:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Quick reality check here. Dems win a small majority in the House, and may (or may NOT) take the slimmest of leads in the Senate... and this qualifies as a "seismic shift.... to [the] politcal landscape"?!?!?

Jeebus! It sounds to me like the Dems and their MSM cheering section are simply amazed they didn't screw up yet another election in a major way, and are close to breaking their arms patting themselves on the back.

At least the current situation makes it plain to see that the Dems, MSM, Euroweenies, and Islamists were unified in their goal of dividing America, and now gloat together over their shared "victory".

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-11-08 17:45|| 2006-11-08 17:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Fuck Europe. For that matter, fuck the world. Let them all stew in their petty despots and learn to live under sharia.

But some also expressed fears that a split in power and a lame-duck president might stall global trade talks and weaken much-needed American influence.

In other words, they want us so long as we do their bidding. They know Democrats will do that, so now they're happy.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-11-08 18:03|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-11-08 18:03|| Front Page Top

#13 They'll be crushed once they realize that most of the people voting for the Dems did it because of domestic concerns (ie. illegal immigration, Republican arrogance after 12 years in power), than because of a deep seated need to be loved by the rest of the world.

They'll be even more crushed to find out "that cowboy" is still in power.....heh!

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-11-08 18:44|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ] 2006-11-08 18:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Yeah, too bad that cowboy gave that groveling, weak kneed speech today.

Posted by wxjames 2006-11-08 18:53|| 2006-11-08 18:53|| Front Page Top

#15 watch the hands, not the mouth

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-08 19:24|| 2006-11-08 19:24|| Front Page Top

#16 Ya' know...I tend to agree with RC - screw Europe. It's especially inviting to say screw European socialists.

The Democratic Party has a (to Europeans) distressing habit of trying to spend more money in this country and supplying less to foreign aid as far as I can remember - that's not necessarily a bad thing in this case.

I could even get behind sending less taxpayer money overseas and spending more of it here - provided it was spent on the military, on missile defense, on the space program, and on repairing our electrical and transportation infrastructures.

We've sent way too much money to way too many despots and dictators over the generations.

Not that that's what I really expect to see from this bunch...

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-11-08 19:27|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-11-08 19:27|| Front Page Top

#17 One Frenchman, teacher Jean-Pierre Charpemtrat, 53, said it was about time U.S. voters figured out what much of the rest of the world already knew. Americans are realizing that you cant found the politics of a country on patriotic passion and reflexes, he said.

Well heck, if I were French I wouldn't have anything to be patriotic about either.

Posted by DMFD 2006-11-08 19:39|| 2006-11-08 19:39|| Front Page Top

#18 What people do not realize is that Europe AND the US, despite all the Kool-Aid that is drunk, is still subject to become a big-a$$ed Car-B-Que, if we all continue to be all fuzzy about the Muzzy. Whether the Donks or the Trunks are in power.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-11-08 21:30|| 2006-11-08 21:30|| Front Page Top

#19 AP, I tend to agree with you, but see almost the opposite. If we get hit again, on their watch, I almost expect them to over-react (to prove how macho they are). Like a cornered tiger, you can only push so far, and then the Donks may very well OVER-RESPOND to any future attacks. As many have said here (more eloquently than I), this was NOT a mandate on Iraq....it was a mandate on how off rail the pubbies have gotten (Dubai ports, illegal immigration, judges like Harriet Maier, spending like drunken sailors, etc.). Plus, if we get hit or attacked again on the homefront, we know that only us heat-packers will be left standing to pull the lever the next time. What's ironic (still to me) is that AQ, Hamas, et al want to hit us for GRAND EFFECT, which means the urban centers. Those urban centers will loose a LOT of Donk voters if we get nailed again (except for Chicago, where the dead will vote on, doods).

Posted by BA 2006-11-08 21:41|| 2006-11-08 21:41|| Front Page Top

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