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FrenchieCat

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Sat Mar-15-08 10:18 PM
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aka "The Ugly American"

Edited on Sat Mar-15-08 10:22 PM by FrenchieCat

That is who we are known around the world as.
That is our name, whether we claim it or not.

So can we agree that......

We are sick of being shunned and feared by those who we are supposed to be leading.

We prefer not to travel abroad keeping our heads down,
while discussing with people from foreign land how much our government sucks.

We no longer want to act as a recruiting magnet for Al Qaeda.

We desperately don't need to be invaders of foreign lands due to lies told to us.

We can't take another 12 Billion spent in Iraq every month.

Our Armed Forces are just plain exhausted!

We want to sign a Global Warming Treaty now, and Al Gore showed us why.

We really do want to ban Cluster Bombs from civilian areas; how could we not?
We have to become leaders in Nuclear Non-proliferation.

We want to be respected for our equality here at home, and our respect for human rights everywhere.
We seek to once again, not just cherish the constitution but to obey it.

We don't want the dollar to fall any further.
We don't want the stock market to crash day in day out.
We don't need the price of a barrel of oil to hold our economy hostage.
we don't want to understand that many around the world have their fingers crossed, hoping for it.

We want to find Goodwill that isn't there now.

We need a brand new face representing us.
We want to shock and awe the world in a different way than the way we shocked and awed it once before.

We want the people of the world to know that we care about what happens to them,
and domestically, we want to help those who need it with jobs and health care.
We need new infrastructure and competent government.
We are looking for a new kind of economy that delivers new jobs.
We want our children to be well prepared for the future, by giving them a superior education.

We have wished for transparency in our government.
We want to remove the grip that big money lobbyist have had on our capital.
We must begin reversing all of the Executive orders Bush did, not in our name.

We need the Change.
We want the Hope.
And I'm talking about the whole world wants and needs it.

If we agree, than our vehicle for doing this is to elect Barack Obama as President of the United States.

If the Skinny kid with a funny name who exudes charisma, intelligent like no one's business, knows how to react under pressure, and does it with a smile that lights up the room can't turn the page for us, then it means that it can't be done.

If we fail to elect Barack Obama, then we didn't deserve him.
If Clinton is the nominee, McCain is what we will get.
And if we end up with McCain, the entire world loses, and loses very badly.

The Urgency of Now is why I'm Fired Up......because I'm Ready To Go and end the long saga
for which I have never been proud of......that of being known as the Ugly American.

What's in a name
http://www.juancole.com/2008/02/barack-hussein-obama-omar-bradley.html

Obama expands delegate lead over Clinton
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1131ap_democrats_iowa.html?source=mypi

The strange case of Clinton vs Obama
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/The_strange_case_of_Clinton_vs_Obama/articleshow/2869905.cms