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Gee I wonder why?

John,
Thank you for the measured tone of your question. I certainly did not suggest either of those two points. What I meant is if you have a friend who knows what he/she is talking about, you listen, you take the advice and you act accordingly. America is a huge sovereign state and has its own interests to protect and is fully entitled to do so without reference to anyone if it so wishes; however, with that power comes a responsibility. A drunken friend should be told not to drive. Should that drunk go out and kill several people, resulting in opprobrium being heaped upon him, that shame/disgrace is well-deserved. What we saw during the last eight years is a trend that has sent your great country out to the fringes of democratic society because it rushed against all advice into areas that were not a threat and where it had neither the knowledge nor expertise. It did not listen to well-meaning advice all of which was based on fact. For example, Iraq. Several of the foreign posters here have alluded to this trend and, like me, because they admire the US, do not like it.

To put where I’m coming from on the Presidential debate in context:
I am very pro America. That country has been very good to me and my family. I have had kinsmen go there from the early 1700’s – one was a sloop commander in the 1750s and was captured by a French privateer off Cape Henlopen; others fought & died (on your side) in your Revolution and on both sides in the civil war. Still more fought in WWI and II. I spent five very happy and profitable years there and like to think that, in addition to the taxes I paid, I made some contribution in return by giving freely of mentor time/lectures to the student/business community.

Where I have a problem is when false claims are made that are patently untrue and yet accepted unquestioningly by part of the populace and by too many on this BB. Politicians should be questioned and held to account. Being interested in the election and having – currently – some extra free time, I posted more than is usual.

To call Obama a Marxist is arrant nonsense. To call him a towel head, or many of the other names we have seen on this BB (e.g. Mc [censored]) is despicably racist. Sadly, no-one saw fit to comment on these insults.. To say that he supports terrorism because he knows Ayers and Khalidi is downright ignorant. Actually, McCain probably is closer to Khalidi – when he was chair of the IRI they gave about $500k to the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, a body that Khalidi helped found.

There were claims that Obama was going to cut the size of the military. Quite the opposite: he proposed an increase of 65,000 troops for the Army and another 27,000 for the Marines. On gun control, the NRA advert “Imagine” on a gun ban is totally fictitious or at best a gross distortion of the truth. That ad fails to mention that the issue was a local handgun ban. The gun owner knew his house keys had been taken, did not bother to change the lock, kept his two children in his bed and when he heard something downstairs went down with his illegally-held gun and shot the intruder and then called the cops. What Obama voted for was not any general repeal of the right of self-defense, but to uphold enforcement of the local gun ban, a "petty offense."

I do not want to go on with more or, indeed, list the Obama lies/distortions on McCain’s policies– there are several of them too.

Hopefully President-elect Obama will achieve many of his promises.
Hopefully he will not encounter any of the uneducated goons on the wrong end of a gunsight.
Hopefully the 100k jobs and $4 billion in taxes paid here by US multinationals will not be taken away by him.
Hopefully my American friends when they come to visit will no longer feel they have to apologise for where they are from.

Thanks for the opportunity to explain my views.
Warm regards,
K.

Kerryman:

I appreciate the post.

Best,
John

You falsely paint all on this board (I imagine you except non-Americans) with this untruth. More than one member condemned this racist slur, and more would have if Dave had not quickly deleted the thread when it was called it to his attention.

Jay

Do us a favor.....keep 'em.

King Brown let us down; many of our draft dodgers have returned.

I see on another thread that RWTF repeats his use of the racial slur that closed a previous thread. And again some repudiated him for this.

keeryman is anti American through and through and his posts prove that.Just another "keyboard coward" that would not have the guts to say in person what he dribbles out here.This arrogance,and calling anyone who disagrees with "his" view of what and how we americans should own gunwise and say is unacceptable.Its sad that the poor parenting he had did teach him better.

Remember the traitors,confront them at every venue.
OWD,Kerryman,possunhunter,pmag

As do I.

Brent

I just can't believe you would write something like that. Keep that up and no one will be visiting. What a stupid thing to say! Anyone who would apologize is not a true American.

it'll be a cold day in hell when i appologize for being American. that's the kind of low life thing the ditzie chicks and other America-hating celebrities do.

of course....our president-elects wife has said she was never before proud of her country until now so there you go.

roger