Here's what one of Europes largest newspaper says about the GOPs candidates:

reply to post by eLPresidente


Protectionism? Check!
Non-Interventionism? Check!

Seems like full points on isolationism for the USA, as far as the definition on wikipedia goes.

Text It's amost as if you have to be an a**hole to be accepted by TPTB in order to become President. And then we wonder why the rest of the world doesn't like us.

reply to post by Taupin Desciple


I am glad there are some people that get it. I think the world desperately wants to like America and for the most part they do like America. Its just that your duopoly regime of a government has become more and more openly psychotic over the last decade. Do us all a favour and elect Ron Paul. I think that would quell anti-American sentiment across the globe quite a bit.

reply to post by ManFromEurope


Yes, and wikipedia isn't the first place I'd go for that information because when you click on #2, non-interventionism, it will tell you that some say it is the antithesis to isolationism.

Also look at protectionism, legal barriers between trade and cultural exchange. Ron Paul has openly expressed his stern position on the free market, free trade and open cultural exchange.

Originally posted by eLPresidente
reply to post by ManFromEurope

 

Yes, and wikipedia isn't the first place I'd go for that information because when you click on #2, non-interventionism, it will tell you that some say it is the antithesis to isolationism.

Also look at protectionism, legal barriers between trade and cultural exchange. Ron Paul has openly expressed his stern position on the free market, free trade and open cultural exchange.

Sorry, I can't find any sources for (for example) open cultural exchange and Ron Paul. All I could find about "cultural exchange" on ronpaul.com was this: "America’s founding fathers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, favored non-interventionism combined with free trade and free cultural exchange."

Could you please give a source for Ron Paul saying about himself about cultural exchange, I think that every hit on google are just pastings of my above quoted text from his homepage without any direct references to himself, just to Washington and Jefferson.

Originally posted by Fitch303
Another example of the "tolerant" left, what a joke. When you read articles like this you know they're in panic mode.

The left?

Originally posted by godWhisperer
i was hoping to see their take on ron paul! did the story continue to include him?

To be honest , Ron Paul doesn't get a mention over here in the UK and I imagine it's the same in the rest of Europe. He hardly gets the coverage he deserves in America.

It's more "news worthy" to poke fun at the other Republican candidates, who are a bit of a joke.

As I said before, 2012 is Obama's to walk away with.
The GOP candidacy has been filled with losers there to get their reputations drug through the mud.

I can seriously see these peoples business associates telling these people to run, while dropping dirt on them to the media behind their backs. We see the back stabbing in business all the time.

Look at the creds Palin and McCain lost.

Of those who had the best chances:
Cain-done-rep ruined for good-about to quit while he is ahead
Perry-done-can't talk? can't negotiate-no longer in it
Bachmann-never had the creds to have a chance
Mitt the Mormon (best gop choice you get..lol) is not Christian enough for the masses.

Just wait a little longer and you will see NEWT ripped apart and ruined for good (The dude has no place as a GOP leader, and has proven his lack of morals over and over).
Enter a new GOP face..just wait a little longer.

Couldn't agree more with the article. The only guy who at least seems ok is Huntsman, but he's obviously too intelligent for the GOP, so won't ever win the primaries.

reply to post by Fitch303


I'm not sure where you're going here.

This isn't an American newspaper. There's no way it can be left or right wing because both are perceived differently over there.

Clearly we can see that Europe is following everything the GOP does ver closely.

Must have had a field day with Rick Perry's favorite ranch, all the Bachmann quotes about slavery and Caine's brilliant analysis of China's up and coming nuclear capabilities.

The translators are never perfect but got the point...and a good laugh. Would have been better if it were translated with Gizoogle, but that site doesn't seem to work anymore.

Originally posted by godWhisperer
i was hoping to see their take on ron paul! did the story continue to include him?

Even the European MSM ignores him, or completely lies about him. Wow. One of only two candidates for president, including our sitting president, that is willing to immediately stop the wars, and he's painted as a loon.

End wars=completely insane.

The world sickens me.

/TOA

reply to post by The Old American


He's painted as a loon because although some of his ideas (ending wars, etc.) are sound, he then ruins it with retarded statements like saying the EPA should be shut down.

In the end, it doesn't matter, he won't ever get the GOP votes, and there's no chance in hell the left will vote for him given his stance on EPA and similar stuff.

Every single election you get the same nonsense...people saying "this time, RP will win...just wait and see!!". In reality, those very same people don't get how politics work. If they did, they'd realize pigs will fly before RP wins

Originally posted by The Old American

Originally posted by godWhisperer
i was hoping to see their take on ron paul! did the story continue to include him?

Even the European MSM ignores him, or completely lies about him. Wow. One of only two candidates for president, including our sitting president, that is willing to immediately stop the wars, and he's painted as a loon.

End wars=completely insane.

The world sickens me.

/TOA

Exactly!
I think the worst and most telling thing is when you have someone like Bill O'reilly saying "If you don't support the war then just shut up!"
He is always claiming Obama wants to be this Socialist fuhrer type, and in his next breath hes spouting off about how we must support the war or we hate America. How does that make any sense?

The political right has become so deluded that it is actually promoting not to think for one's self.

Originally posted by Misoir
Please ignore facts and proceed with your PC-driven denial of reality.

I wish people would stop throwing around this term without any regard for what political correctness actually is. There is nothing politically correct about this article. In fact, if anything, it's quite the opposite.

Leftist ideology and political correctness are not the same thing, although they can and do often overlap.

Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts, and, as purported by the term, doing so to an excessive extent.

As you note, this article is aggressive and offensive to many. There's nothing about the article that could be described as "seeking to minimize social and institutional offense".

the scary thing is.....
outside of paul, who although I like him, I don't think he will ever get enough exposure in the mainstream media to actually win the nomination....
newt appears to be the sanest among them, and sometimes newt sounds like a fruitcake...

now, I know, I have said over and over again that I would never vote republican again...
but I would for paul, if he got it,
and I would for newt...if only to get the other loon out of office!!!
I'll take a hyper intelligent fruitcake over a no intelligent one any day of the week!!!
newt might be crazy, but I think he could do some good with the economy, that's if we have an economy left still.

Did that newspaper also report the Democrat Obama talking about visiting 57 states? Why no Obama and Biden gaffes? Could it be that Germany is as Socialist/Marxist as Obama?

reply to post by Misoir

It’s from where? And it’s New Left foaming at the mouth? Oh Germany, no that is not a surprise, the Frankfurt School got to experiment on that country pretty thoroughly

Not to mention we got Hegelianism from Berlin as well. They can have it back really. And they can put it the same place where Marx belongs. In fact they can have Obama too, I mean he did campaign in Berlin, and they loved him.