Comments on: Obama Elected, The World Rejoices – Turkey, Macedonia Perhaps Not So Much

By: Bas

Bas — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:06:43 +0000

Also see: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10956685.asp?scr=1

By: Bas

Bas — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:01:16 +0000

Even your government claims to be working towards becoming a “modern, democratic” country.

By: Damla

Damla — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:06:32 +0000

Turkey is already “moden, democratic”. Who the hell wrote this article?

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:42:58 +0000

I am not so happy about Obama getting in as the next president.

I voted for McCain, mainly because he doesn’t have any plans to ban guns in America and that’s of interest to me since I own a gun business and am an avid hunter.

But I do wish America would get out of the middle-east and stop its Nazi Germany style of dictating what it thinks is right and wrong in the world.

My wish is for the USA to pull out of the middle-east, close up our borders (mainly between Mexico and the U.S.) and start fixing what is wrong with America such as welfare, immigration, unemployment, the healthcare system, corrupt politics and crime.

Could also stop supporting Israel to get the terrorists off our backs. I mean we have already armed them to the teeth including providing them with a nuclear arsenal so they can defend themselves just fine without our support.

By: Bas

Bas — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:01:31 +0000

@Laura:

What exactly is anti-American about Obama’s policies?

I think Bush has been very anti-American. You use the word ‘freedom’ right there. The biggest impact Bush has had on the US during his presidency is what he did with creating Homeland Security and the Patriot Act. Those two things have truly been anti-American. The American people should have gotten on the streets about this (as this is your constitutional right) yet you did nothing.

Now Obama, didn’t do anything yet, so let’s see how he will be. I’m highly skeptical of him, since the 3 guys I thought would be fit for ethical presidency didn’t get nominated. However, I believe Obama’s presidency will be less “anti-American” as Bush’ presidency.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:56:49 +0000

It’s very interesting to me that Obama’s popularity around the world has caused people to rejoice at his election. Since anti-American sentiment around the world is at an all time high, should that not give Americans pause when they realize that Obama’s anti-American-freedom policies has earned all this praise? I hope so.

By: martin

martin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:45:43 +0000

Interesting and well written article. What is being missed here is the common factor of election based promises that are forgotten once elected. Forget what policies were made leading up to the election it is a new ball game now Obama has control. Let’s see how many promises he or should I say has advisors keep. Incidently the ‘advisors’ are probably the same people who pull the string on Bush.

By: The Fitness Diva

The Fitness Diva — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:19:28 +0000

This article was very enlightening and informative.
I had no idea about these issues, and it will be interesting to be aware and to see what decisions will be made regarding these regions under the Obama administration.

Great post!

By: Bella Casa

Bella Casa — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:59:56 +0000

This is fascinating to learn…see, my husband was born and raised in Macedonia and was 110% behind Obama…apparently he didn’t get ‘the memo’

Bella

By: Bas

Bas — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:03:50 +0000

The most popular? He’s not even a president yet. Bush started out as quite popular also.

Not this extremely popular though. I think people’s expectations of Obama are too high. He’s not a miracle worker and he’ll end up disappointing a lot of people. I learned in my course for political campaigning that the ones that use the ‘hope’ / inspiration message usually have the most trouble getting re-elected for their second term.

I’m very skeptical about Obama, but at least he’s no maniac.