Other Countries and American Politics

The audacity! When election time rolls around in the US every four years, the media often goes out of its way to draw remarks from Europeans and folks at the UN and other global organizations. Why does the media ask these people what they think? Why does the media think Americans even care what others think? The answer is simple: The media works very hard to shape peoples' minds into thinking that we need to elect those who people in other countries want us to elect.

Today, it started again. Mr. Obama selected his running mate: Senator Joe Biden from Deleware. Immediately, the media runs out to see what other countries think about this.

Here are some quotes from the Associated Press:

"Biden owes his selection to (Russian Prime Minister Vladimir) Putin," said French political analyst Dominique Moisi.

In Britain, the North America editor for the British Broadcasting Corp., Justin Webb, said Biden was "Vladimir Putin's contribution to American politics — he is a necessary antidote to the Obama lack of worldly wisdom, which before Georgia was a bit academic to most Americans."

In Germany, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democrats, Eckart von Klaeden, said Biden was "an exceptionally good decision, which shows how Obama is trying to organize all elements of the Democratic party behind him."

The choice of Biden "is a good signal for these talks," said Angela Anderson, director of the Global Warming Campaign for the PEW environmental group. "I'm thrilled."

"The easiest and fastest way to demonstrate a change of foreign policy would be on climate change," said David Doniger, of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

All of these comments tell me to do exactly the opposite of what is intended. If other countries want a particular candidate to lead America, then I want whoever else is running. I want a president who puts America first, not the rest of the world, first.

I don't want to vote for president of the world. I want to vote for President of the United States.

I will vote for John McCain because he is the most experienced, he does not demonize wealth and big business, he will not overtax those who provide jobs, he has a plan for and will solve our energy problems, he is pro-life, he will appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court, and he will continue to fight terrorism using a military policy and not one based on the international court system.

Media ... Europeans ... Don't ever tell me for whom to vote. I don't trust either one of you. If you like 'em and want 'em, I want the other guy.

And make a note: Global warming is an unproven theory. In fact, there is more scientific evidence to prove that the earth's temperature has always changed and evolved even before man had cars and planes and boats. I'm not about to turn my whole life upside down because of an unproven theory.