Have I missed something? Has a new president already been elected?

It certainly appears so. Or could it be Barack Obama is being presumptuous and is already telling other countries and Americans what foreign policy is going to be come 2009?

His arrogance is getting to be tiring. To use the Chicago vernacular, Obama is trying to put the "hustle" on us. He's a pretender

He is long on talk and short on substance. I report,U decide.

How they vote in the United Nations :

Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records:

Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time

Qatar votes against the United States 67%20of the time

Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time

United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.

Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.

Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.

Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.

Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time...

Algeria votes against&n bsp; the United States 74% of the time.

Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.

Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.

Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.

Libya  votes against the United States 76% of the time.

Egypt  votes against the United States 79% of the time.

Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.

India votes against the United States 81% of the time.

Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.

Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.

U S Foreign Aid to those that hate us:

Egypt , for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States, still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.

Jordan votes 71% against the United States

And receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

Pakistan votes 75% against the United States

Receives $6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

India votes 81% against the United States

Receives $143,699,000 annually.

Perhaps it is time to get out of the UN and give the tax savings back to the American workers who are having to skimp and sacrifice to pay the taxes (and gasoline) .

Pass this along to every taxpaying citizen you know.

Disgusting isn't it

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Joe Soucheray: For those who believe anything, it's easy to believe in Obama
Pioneer Press

Article Last Updated: 07/26/2008 09:31:56 PM CDT

What an odd presidential campaign it is when one of the principals, John McCain, managed to capture the other day but a modest inside-page newspaper photograph of himself and a woman named Renee Gould in a supermarket, where McCain, presumably, was jawboning with her about the price of broccoli. The store was in Bethlehem, Pa. It was in the United States, and it was old-fashioned political stumping.

While, in the meantime, Barack Obama was touring Europe and sounding vaguely un-American, which I don't mean in the spiteful or unpatriotic sense. In fact, he was very careful to point out that he loved America. His remarks in Berlin were so broadly encompassing of world change that he sounded like a fellow who might have been from anywhere, from France or Argentina or Turkey. He is not unlike the television news anchors who clamored to accompany him to Europe and help husband him through the travails. He could be from anywhere.

"People of Berlin, people of the world,'' Obama said in remarks at the Victory Column in Berlin's Tiergarten, "this is our moment, this is our time.''

I'm trying to imagine a German politician giving a speech in Yankee Stadium in which he tells me that it is our time. Our time for what?

Well, as a former president who also appeared in Berlin, and for a more powerful and specific reason, once said, "There he goes again.''

Obama's followers know what Obama means when he promotes change, but I don't. At least when he refers to change as

IT might develop under his watch in America, I can get an idea of his boilerplate adherence to his party's plank, free health care and another roundhouse punch to the 1 percent of taxpayers who already pay more than 30 percent of America's income taxes. He even threw in a little "to each according to his need'' reference when he said, "This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created and share its benefits more equitably.''
That plays well when you throw your arms around the world. I have no earthly idea what that portends or what it is that he imagines he is going to change.

It was all very UNy and One Worldy, especially when he referred to what he called the burden of global citizenship, as that burden might be applicable to saving the planet.

The planet is OK. What should concern the world is how we might survive our attempts to save it. One major volcanic eruption would put us in our place, but until some perfectly natural disaster comes along, we continue to be attracted by the warm glow of politicians whose extraordinary vanity makes it acceptable to believe that humans are bigger than nature and that as a result of us being, well, present and accounted for and driving SUVs, we have apparently ruined the planet.

Which we haven't.

"As we speak,'' Obama said in Berlin, "cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.''

Really? If you believe that, then you will believe anything — that you might head off this disaster, for example, by buying different light bulbs. Or you might have to believe that you had better stop driving in Boston and that the state had better close those factories in China.

Believing in anything, I do believe, explains Obama's grandeur. He preaches a meaningless belief in anything better than anyone, better than Al Gore or Sting or any of the notable reverends we have gotten to know.

It was a fabulous speech in Berlin and then off to Paris and then home.

Meanwhile, McCain's photograph appeared the other day beneath Obama speaking to 200,000, and the sign behind McCain in a restaurant in Ohio said "Schmidts Fudge Haus

Country song titled IT AIN'T SAFE TO BE NO WOMB DWELLER

Today I saw you on the ultra sound
You sure ain't very big around,
Warning! warning! little feller,
It ain't safe to be no womb dweller.

Since your momma took the notion,
She can kill you without commotion,
And I ain't got no say about your life,
Cause your momma, she ain't my wife.

But how can they call it "pro choice",
When me and the little feller got no voice?
The supreme court sez it's a woman's choice,
SO DEAR SON, GOOD NIGHT, GOD BLESS YOU.

Music written to this would be appreciated.

I report and U decide
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