Excerpts from Obama’s South Carolina Speech (read full transcript here):
Accentuations (Hervorhebungen) by Füchsin
„(…) We are looking for more than just a change of party in the White House.
(…) We’re also struggling with our own doubts, our own fears, our own cynicism. The change we seek has always required great struggle and great sacrifice. And so this is a battle in our own hearts and minds about what kind of country we want and how hard we’re willing to work for it. So let me remind you tonight that change will not be easy. Change will take time. There will be setbacks and false starts, and sometimes we’ll make mistakes. But as hard as it may seem, we cannot lose hope, (…)
(…) When I hear that we’ll never overcome the racial divide in our politics, I think about that Republican woman who used to work for Strom Thurmond, who’s now devoted to educating inner-city children, and who went out into the streets of South Carolina and knocked on doors for this campaign [i.e. Obama’s campaign //Füchsin//]. Don’t tell me we can’t change.”
(Cheers, applause.)
“Yes, we can. Yes, we can change.”
(Chants of “Yes, We Can! Yes, We Can!”)
“Yes, we can.”
(Continued chants of “Yes, We Can!”)
“Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can seize our future. And as we leave this great state with a new wind at our backs, and we take this journey across this great country, a country we love, with the message we’ve carried from the plains of Iowa to the hills of New Hampshire, from the Nevada desert to the South Carolina coast, the same message we had when we were up and when we were down, that out of many we are one, that while we breathe we will hope, and where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words: Yes, we can.”
Sounds frightening to me.
Dennis Prager Show (c)
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1 cris // Jan 30, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Füchsin, you’re right, this is a very interesting thing to watch, how some people (and most of the media) worship Obama.
I found something similar on Brussels Journal
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2920
An excerpt:
The outcome of the US presidential election will affect the lives of millions of people around the world. So it’s probably not surprising that many Europeans are resentful that only Americans will have a say in it. European media are saturated with election coverage that is heavily biased in favor of the Democrats. And, as in past elections, European elites are also demanding the right to help choose the next occupant of the White House. What follows is a brief survey of what some Europeans are saying about the American way of democracy.
An editorial in the Brussels-based, center-right De Standaard articulates a view shared by many Europeans: “American presidential elections are not ‘home affairs’. American decisions have repercussions all over the globe…. Hence, the world should be given the right to vote.”
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What European elites really seem to want is the right to “help” Americans choose the “correct” candidate. And if newspaper headlines are any indication, that person is, overwhelmingly, Illinois Senator Barack Obama. Indeed, across the continent, European elites are infatuated with Obama, who is now a cult figure.
In Germany, the center-right Berliner Morgenpost proclaims that Obama is ‘The New Kennedy’ while the centrist tabloid Bild says that ‘This Black American Has Become the New Kennedy!’ The left-wing Frankfurter Rundschau compares Obama not only to Kennedy, but also to Presidents Lincoln and Roosevelt.
The Hamburg-based, leftwing Der Spiegel asserts that: “Obama is the candidate of the idealists […]. Obama also happens to be the candidate of choice for the foreign press […]. Many in Europe would like nothing more than a ‘European’ America.”
2 Füchsin // Jan 31, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Das ist wirklich ein sehr interessanter Artikel. Danke!
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