Friday - November 07, 2008

Obama should turn his back on the EU, Will he have the freedom to do that?

My guess is no and most likely he may not want to.  While not ALL Democrats are super left, it seems it’s the far left wing that controls that party. I think they love Europe and the Eu AND, if they can they’ll want to come together in a love fest.
Is that extreme thinking on my part?

Barack Obama should turn his back on the EU
By: Bruno Waterfield in Brussels at Nov 5, 2008 at 14:42:31

Barack Obama has a lot to do. He should ignore siren voices from the European Union hailing a “new deal” for the world.

The Democrat President Elect has got the EU all excited, hot and bothered - see here. But, politely, gently and firmly, President Obama should turn his back on the EU.

The EU represents the politics of respectable consensus and embodies the low expectations of tarnished European political establishments, which are characterised by their estrangement from voters.

Contrast the high expectations that Mr Obama represents for American voters to the low, positively depressed, expectations surrounding Gordon Brown, or any other EU leader you care to mention.

Mr Obama’s victory, the high turnout and messianic support, represents one of those truly political moments when voters reject the establishment and express an incoherent, but real enough, desire for a new direction.

The new Democrat President Elect needs to focus on the domestic, real politics, real debate about what his America should mean not the comfort blanket of bureaucratic, consensoid governmental structures - especially those on the “multilateral” foreign stage.

Internationalism does not mean going through the official channels.

Both the American and European political establishments hope (in a vampire like way) that the hopes surrounding President Obama will confer some badly needed legitimacy on them.

But democracy is not and should not be about providing an infusion of legitimacy to confirm and reinvigorate the status quo and the living dead politics of the establishment.

Spiked has some interesting reflections on the meaning of the Obama effect. “The election of Obama brings to an end an important chapter in America’s culture wars. But will it create the space for a new political debate?,” asks Frank Furedi.

The US election shows that people, the voters, want something new - a sentiment in Europe too. Mr Obama will not deliver on those expectations if he listens to a tired old EU.

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Posted by peiper     on 11/07/2008 at 10:22 AM   
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