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Vera,
We all live our lives trying to please other people. In essence that is what
work rules, behavioral expectations, laws, marriage vows and guidelines are
all about. If we do not at least try to please at a minimal level, then more
than likely, we will live alone, an outcast to society. The same goes for
countries as well.
Jonathan Gramling
Publisher & Editor
The Capital City Hues
"The News for ALL of Madison"
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Subject: Re: FW: "The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the
man it yearns for" - UK Guardian
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Anyone who lives their lives trying to please other people will be very
disappointed (and far worse off) in the end...the same goes for countries.
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"In the days before volcanoes were invented, lava had to be hand carried
down from the mountains and poured on the sleeping villagers.
This took a great deal of time."
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From: "Baldeh, Samba" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:29 am
Subject: FW: "The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it
yearns for" - UK Guardian
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> How Europeans are seeing the election. This, and other prescient
> observations. It's quite good:
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> "Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much
> misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been
> anti-Bushism, opposition to this specific administration. But if McCain
> wins in November, that might well change. Suddenly Europeans and others
> will conclude that their dispute is with not only one ruling clique, but
> Americans themselves. For it will have been the American people, not the
> politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for
> a
> fresh start - a fresh start the world is yearning for."
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> "And the manner of that decision will matter, too. If it is deemed to
> have been about race - that Obama was rejected because of his colour -
> the world's verdict will be harsh. In that circumstance, Slate's Jacob
> Weisberg wrote recently, international opinion would conclude that "the
> United States had its day, but in the end couldn't put its own
> self-interest ahead of its crazy irrationality over race."
>
> "... I know that even to mention Obama's support around the world is to
> hurt him. Incredibly, that large Berlin crowd damaged Obama at home,
> branding him the "candidate of Europe" and making him seem less of a
> patriotic American. But what does that say about today's America, that
> the world's esteem is now unwanted? If Americans reject Obama, they will
> be sending the clearest possible message to the rest of us - and, make
> no mistake, we shall hear it."
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> CLICK HERE
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/uselections2008.bar
> ackobama> to read the full article.
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