Published: 7 Nov 12 09:50 CET | Print version
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Leading politicians in Sweden of all political stripes rejoiced early Wednesday morning over the re-election of US president Barack Obama, but cautioned he has a tough road ahead.
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That, couples with the hardened divisions in the society ensure that a very rocky road lies ahead for the US and its friends.
To all Americans,Obama is the best present to Americans who struggled to figure out who will suit best to their needs. he actually had tough 4 years but to me the hard part is over and it's only giving 100% attention to economy that is remaining, which he can handle it with little support from stubborn and negative Republicans. i hope Obama struck a deal with Iran and the middle east at large.
surprise, i aint American but but it's a dreamland for me.
Either Romney (private bankster, leveraged buyout thief) or Obama, America still is beset with Wall Street's lackey:
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-crashes-out-of-the-top-10-in-world-prosperity-index-2012-11
(I suspect Swedish politicians are happy 'cause they still want to extradite Wikileaks' Assange for the USA.)
Oh oh, I sure hope Obama has the sense to listen to all that sage advice from Swedish politicians! Where would he be without them?
"I thought the American people had more common sense that that. Doubling down performance of the past four years makes for pretty grim economic outlook ."
Obviously there was another option how to beat Obama. Maby next time they should opt for Ron Paul as a great republican oponent candidate not that mor(o)mon Romney.
It's time to man up and act!! The Republicans would be pushing whatever nonsensical bill they could pass with or without Democrats overall consent.
It's time to play politics, not nice guy again.
Yes, I understand that most financial bills would have to pass through the House and the Republicans would do their utmost to block them - but there is a 'sink or swim' instinct for next primaries that could get some Republicans to think outside the box.
The real issue is that there is only 2 parties. There ought to be 4 maybe 5 equally matched parties to represent the diverse nature of the country - that way everyone gets what they want by compromise.
As it is, no matter what Obama does, he will inevitably alienate or dissatisfy half the populace.
Do you think there is any chance of getting a few democrats to think outside the big government/socialist box? NOT!!!
A question for all you socialist deep thinkers. What is it about the nanny state/socialism/communism that leads to cultural suicide? If it such a good thing for the state to care for you from cradle to grave, why are the European birth rates so low? Native birth rates below replacement leads to cultural extinction. In Europe, the process is being exacerbated by the invasion of the fast breeding, Muslim hoards.
i'm not a republican but I can see that his last four years were not good for america and i don't hold a lot of hope for the next four years either with the attitude his people have.
at 7:06 AM November 18, 2012
I know some human fingers were remotely controllingmy posting of the following in Bangladeshi Newspapers.
That is too unscrupulous old style manipulations of mankind benefiting positive attemps of honest and good guys.
However, I succeeded minutes ago in posting @ Washington post and hope the same here in LA Times.
Not only Israeli heads but hot tempered leaders of other side too is to be blamed for these stupid bloodshedding events. Wise, non-violent minded leaders like: Obama, it's an open secret, that they (including humanitarian and peaceful minded people) can do nothing but share blames of supporting high-tech partners of Semitic origin such as businessmen of Israel.
It proves that Media is still in the grip of unscrupulously wealthy thugs. People often die in thousands of head counts in some part of the world as a result of human Brutality or Natural disaster. (e.g. USA, Bangladesh, Srilanka, Nigeria, Arabia, South-Africa etc.) and no outcry even in the cases of inhuman Saudi-Arabian type beheading atrocity.
And sometimes death of only one hundred becomes too a big deal like WW3.
e.g. 50 semites die in retaliation of the death of 1 single terrorist of semitic origin and all the top media get flooded with news, images and pictures in ways to brainwash ordinary folks with the impression of a exploded hell that even never ever exist in the cosmos.
Dumb practice but who cares for that in this rapid communication era, where real fact is quickly learned by every wise global folks elsewhere?
Use of common sense is now better than the judgments of old style warlords and a few nards with impractical knowledge based on lones of memorized words of stinky law books of outdated and old ideologies.