Now this I agree with. Bev.

yadda yadda yadda…… Democrats bad….. Socialism evil This article is about the change in policy on how we deal with the middle east……. why dont u stick to the subject and tell us all how well torture worked.

Documented Muslim upbringing? I asked you for sources the last time you brought this up, and got no reply. Where is this documentation? Anyway, Democrats aren’t basically socialists. A socialist is a person who believes that the state or collective should own and administer the means of production and distribution of goods, and that an egalitarian society with equal opportunities for all individuals with a distribution of wealth is the best way to do things. Democrats run on a platform that generally favors social freedoms, a mixed economy (i.e. the free market tempered by government interference) and progressive taxation. They do not advocate wholesale ownership of property by the state, etc. In any case, we’ve experimentally verified that having an ignorant and stupid president is extremely destructive. Obama is neither, and so I am sure he will do a better job. As for England and France, you have to look at the whole picture as well as the past in order to acurately assess what is going on. For instance, you simply can not ignore the affects of WWII on France today. In any case, I do believe that France faces problems because it does not respect religous freedom (and does not have a history of doing so) and attempts to force the Muslims to be assimilated. We simply do not have that problem here, nor will any president touch the first amendment. Another problem France faces is that it has made the system such that upward mobility is difficult, which means many immigrants are never given a chance to succeed. That is also not a problem for us here, though if we do not address the issue of illegal immigration from the Americas in a constructive manner it might be in the future. As for England, they do not have the problems that France has. Until our economy imploded, taking the world’s economy with it, they had continuely increased their economic footprint.

I agree that Bush and Obama have very different visions of what is best for the American people. But I don’t agree that America should be scared. Alert, prepared, creative, engaged…but not afraid.

So here we go again about the Muslim connection…since when does Muslim automatically become a dirty word as if they are less because of their religion?? Lethal cocktails for all Americans and that is why exactly? So all of a sudden Muslims are everywhere and they are going to rule the world….come on now you need to get a grip here, is your answer to send them back from whence they came so they don’t sully the good old USA. One thing Bush has left behind for sure is this “fear factor” and folks are still living in that bubble that anyone or anything that is remotely connected to anything to with Muslims is a bad thing!!! No one will accept that Bush and his policies created more and more terrorists throughout the world and many are of Muslim faith seeing as it is their part of the world that is being occupied as in Iraq and the US backing of Israel against Palestine for example. So if we need to fear Muslims then we should look at our part in all of it also as creators of a good deal of it.

Hello Deber, I must take issue with your concern regarding President Obama’s Muslim upbringing. I share the same opinion regarding this issue as General Powell. We need not fear President Obama’s Muslim roots. We, must however, always protect our liberties, our Constitution, and our democracy. The socialists in France have done much damage to that country. Their racism has also discredited them in the eyes of many. Europe is paying a harsh price for poor economic decisions. We need be concerned with the same happening to the U.S. economy.