Comments on: What Bertelsmann Wants from Obama

By: Test

Test — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:32:23 +0000

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By: billig

billig — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:54:36 +0000

Arrogant?? Why??? I am not arrogant!!

By: Brasilien

Brasilien — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:02:00 +0000

Hey Vinny, you realy think all European are arrogant???? Sorry, but isnt it a bit snotty to say this….
I hope Obama will change Things in US, but if it is the right way to say 70Mils are peantus – that remains to be seen….. In my opinion it is right, the Book is a shame, an I hope he will not take a hard line with Germany.

By: Flug

Flug — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:08:04 +0000

Well, Bertelsmann definitely has some influence and political power in Germany as well, but I don’t think that the company is in a position to make any demands or claims. In less than an hour 70 mils are peanuts for Obama. I only hope that he will resist more critical interest groups. A giant task that Bush wasn’t able to handle: Oil- and weapon-companies.

By: Sharonsj

Sharonsj — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:56:32 +0000

I read the Pentagon paper on global warming which warns that it is more dangerous than terrorist activities! Crazy terrorists blowing up hundreds of people cannot equate with a hundred thousand inhabitants having to move somewhere because their islands are being submerged or millions migrating because their countries are in perpetual drought or unstoppable flooding. While the U.S. does use more energy than most, Europe complains about it but then gives only lip service to solving the problem. I don’t expect the rich and powerful to do anything because they are only concerned with how much money they can make before things fall apart. The only silver lining to the global depression is that people have cut way back on energy use.

By: Tobi

Tobi — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:44:14 +0000

#9 I am a european, a german from Berlin – and unfortunately You are right. I am embarrased beyond words for the stupid anti-Americanism in Germany and Western-Europe. I remember the Wall next to my parents house in West-Berlin and each time I saw the watchtowers, and the soldiers with their german shepards watching the “death strip”, I asked myself when this will finally disapear. I am so glad it did 19 years ago.
My parents always told me that the Americans (along with their allies) freed us from fascism and saved us from communism. It’s such a simple truth. “The Americans are our friends” they told me. I basically never did what my parents asked me to do – but they surely where absolutely right with this. So many Americans fought and died for our freedom. I am thankful and I won’t forget that.
They are people in Germany who still think like me of the USA, but I have to say that the mainstream goes right with that unbelievable arrogant and completely ridicoulus Bertelsmann “Trans-Atlantic Briefing Book”. I wish I could laugh about it, but I can’t. I hope President Obama can.

By: 888

888 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:12:29 +0000

Thanks, #8. I love Europe, but everytime I visit an American national cemetary or memorial there (whether it’s in France, England, Belgium or Italy), it saddens me that the Europeans who live in the big European cities don’t give any credit or gratitude to the hundreds of thousands of American lives lost or forever disfigured so that Europeans would have the freedom to criticize us the way they love to do.

By: Vinny Vidivici

Vinny Vidivici — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:09:19 +0000

Europe’s arrogance is indefatigable. You’d think a shabby track record these last hundred years on matters of global order maintenance would give Euro-scolds pause or, at the very least, leave Americans who’ve paid enourmous prices for Europe’s blunders skeptical. But no.

Unfortunately — and almost paradoxically, after 100 years of taking Europe’s garbage out for them — a large portion of America’s so-called leadership class is as committed as Europe’s would-be global viceroys to diminishing the influence, authority and sovereignty of the United States.

By: 888

888 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:47:02 +0000

As far as Germany and Bertelsmann goes, they shouldn’t be taken seriously, either. They need America more than America would ever need them. If Obama ends up appeasing Bertelsmann and allowing the company to push him around, then he isn’t as keen and shrewd as the world was led to believe.

Again, Obama is a phoney and, I’ll add, another Chicago thug in the vein of Blogo.

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:42:40 +0000

For Amy (2)

Soros connection:

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22644454_ITM