So what has Obama done ?

tomder55 · Feb 13, 2008, 07:50 AM

A new bill that is co-sponsored by Barak Obama and Democrat Senators Maria Cantwell, Dianne Feinstein, Richard Lugar, Richard Durbin, Chuck Hagel and Robert Menendez will increase foreign aid by the United States to a level that the UN dictates . Sugar coating it with a name no one could object to ;"Global Poverty Act,"(S.2433) , it essentially brings United States aid to levels that the UN has dictated in it's "Millennium Project "goals.(0.7% of GNP)

Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the U.N.'s "Millennium Project," says that the U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already spends. Over a 13-year period, this amounts to $845 billion.

Does the US taxpayer gets the right to deduct from the contribution the cost of maintaining the global peace, maintaining and operating the GPS system and enforcing the UN armistice on the Korean Peninsula among others? I am sure the answer is, "no".

Obama has made his position clear . The candidate who will not wear an American flag on his lapel but allows his offices in Texas to fly banners of Che Guevara is taking his revolution global.

tomder55 · Feb 13, 2008, 10:44 AM

Steve ; I'd say that was a pretty ambitious docket given all the campaigning he has done since he became a Senator.

Dark_crow · Feb 13, 2008, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by tomder55

DC you as well as I are more than free to donate any spare change we have left to any of many worthy causes. I do not think that our government should be giving up basic sovereignty to the UN ;to set policy on our foreign aid or to determine what precent of our GDP is an appropriate donation. As mentioned we do not bill the UN for services already rendered . Nor does their calculations take into account private donations from individual Americans .

I agree with all you say here Tom...but what I do wonder is if we are in fact giving up basic sovereignty to the UN ;to set policy on our foreign aid or to determine what precent of our GDP is an appropriate donation. What I base that on is the fact we often disregard their wishes...Iraq is one example.

tomder55 · Feb 13, 2008, 10:54 AM

gee I thought we were complying with UN wishes in enforcing the number of resolutions they passed in over a decade regarding Iraq. They certainly did not complain when US and British Airmen risked their lives enforcing no-fly zones . They certainly don't mind the US fleet ensuring safe passage through the world's sea lanes.

Dark_crow · Feb 13, 2008, 11:08 AM

Tom
We do contribute 22% or more of their budget and the only other country anywhere near is Japan with 19%. Between the two, we rule. We are outvoted some of the time but it seems to me we pretty much only do what we want to do. I just don’t see them forcing us to do anything we don’t want to do.

speechlesstx · Feb 13, 2008, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Dark_crow

There is more, but…

No doubt, I already granted that much and he has been a busy guy. I just posted what he has been successful with so far and I think we need a president that did more than "keep a low profile in Congress" for three years. I actually like Obama, I just don't like the thought of his being president. But then again, I don't really like any of our choices that much.

tomder55 · Feb 13, 2008, 11:19 AM

Bringing the issue back to Obama ; I saw this in American Thinker and I believe it to be generally correct.

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Obama will be packaged as the Global Candidate to whom the world's poor and oppressed look for signs of hope for the future. His mixed race and varied national backgrounds symbolize his connectivity with peoples across the planet. The adulation felt for him beyond America offers the U.S. a chance for enhanced strength and repaired credibility worldwide. Sure, he's an American citizen, but he's also a global citizen, a man of the world.

The MSM will assert that the next president must not just lead the nation and the Western World, but he also must heal the international wounds caused by the Bush administration so that he can lead the world community to address serious global issues. As the MSM projects Obama as the Global President, they'll place before us, in print and on screen, individual people-of-color in Second and Third World countries endorsing him.

The MSM will tell us we need to more seriously consider who the international community wants in our Oval Office. That appeal will score with Americans who hunger to be told we're loved by others. Obama's speeches have already laid the foundation for the MSM's Global Candidate template. He tells his audiences that their support of him will not only change the nation, but change the world.

The collateral wing of the storyline will predict the world's profound disappointment if Obama loses in November. Americans will feel guilty if the world awakes the morning after the second Tuesday in November to a President McCain. And, we'll be told, the world will feel more frightened and distrustful of us than it already is. The MSM made a similar, but weaker, appeal in 2004 for John Kerry, particularly in reference to European countries. But Kerry was never close to the international rock star status that Obama has already attained.

Meanwhile, the MSM will make no effort to peel away the veneer of conceptual vapidity surrounding Obama's seductive oratory. They will not push him for clarity or details. Instead, they will be his campaign's de facto PR firm. Rather than probe his intentions, they'll focus on his emotional appeal made via ethereal notions of hope, compassion, love...(cue the inspirational muzak).

In short, the MSM will not require that Obama bring his intentions down from 60,000 feet to runway level. And, when people enter the polling booth to vote, with regard to Obama it won't be so much "What you see is what you get" as "We're not sure what we saw, or what we'll get, but it sure made us feel good." Sadly, for some, that will be enough.

American Thinker: Obama, The Global Candidate

Dark_crow · Feb 13, 2008, 11:21 AM

…but don’t like him relative to whom? What are the options? What are the actual differences between him and Mc Cain other than age and personality?

Choux · Feb 13, 2008, 12:01 PM

I saw Obama wearing an American flag in his lapel within the last month during a debate or television appearance.

I fell confident that the Che Guevara flag flying was a lie, too.

I'm reporting you to management for lying.

NeedKarma · Feb 13, 2008, 12:05 PM

Nah Choux, it happened, It was a small volunteer office. Nothing to fret about.

Choux · Feb 13, 2008, 12:16 PM

OH, thanks, NK, I can't swear he had a flag in his lapel, I just assumed it was a flag.

I can't even drop in occasionally on the political discussions....



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