If Michelle Obama gets tired of merely entertaining dignitaries as first lady, she might try her hand at editing for the Associated Press. After all, according to the AP, her husband has made it "cool" to be an American again. Yahoo.com is giving play to the story by featuring it as a top headline in the "World" section of its news page (see image at right).
From AP writer William J. Kole:
VIENNA, Austria – She was a stranger, and she kissed me. Just for being an American.
It happened on the bus on my way to work Wednesday morning, a few hours after compatriots clamoring for change swept Barack Obama to his historic victory. I was on the phone, and the 20-something Austrian woman seated in front of me overheard me speaking English.
Without a word, she turned, pecked me on the cheek and stepped off at the next stop.
Nothing was said, but the message was clear: Today, we are all Americans.
Story Continues Below Ad ↓For longtime U.S. expatriates like me — someone far more accustomed to being targeted over unpopular policies, for having my very Americanness publicly assailed — it feels like an extraordinary turnabout.
Like a long journey over a very bumpy road has abruptly come to an end.
And it's not just me.
An American colleague in Egypt says several people came up to her on the streets of Cairo and said: "America, hooray!" Others, including strangers, expressed congratulations with a smile and a hand over their hearts.
Another colleague, in Amman, says Jordanians stopped her on the street and that several women described how they wept with joy.
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
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Hate to start Off topic
November 5, 2008 - 15:22 ET by ArcherBbut....
Will there be any investigation into the "alleged" voter fraud we've been hearing about so much? I know it won't change the outcome of the election, but I don't want to put up with it again in four years!
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Jeepers, Mr. Kole
November 5, 2008 - 15:28 ET by Mica the MagnificentOh, pa-leeeeeze!
You should have added: Why, even the smoke from my crack pipe was happier.
I wish one of theses
November 5, 2008 - 15:29 ET by motherbeltI wish one of theses socio-political geniuses would explaing how it is that someone winning an election with just over half the votes suddenly "unites" us all?
Well, gee, I'll sure sleep a lot better tonight, knowing that it's "cool" to be an American again.
After all, they tell us that was the whole point of this election: to make the world like us again!
I think I'm going to hurl.
Not only a sleazy never ending election
November 5, 2008 - 15:33 ET by ahusserBut a 10 week love fest from the lefties. The Age of Aquarius is back by popular demand.
"...no civilization, no matter how rich, no matter how refined, can long survive once it loses the power to meet force with equal or superior force." - Bernard Knox
Oh give me a friggin'
November 5, 2008 - 15:31 ET by bigtimerOh give me a friggin' break!
Duct tape time....if you have none handy get out your barf-bag!
Despicable, disgusting, deplorable...all of it.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
This is too easy...
November 5, 2008 - 15:33 ET by MidAmericaWithout a word, she turned, pecked me on the cheek and stepped off at the next stop.
They can kiss me on the 'cheek' too.
Obama won because of
November 5, 2008 - 15:35 ET by lumpya whorish media blatantly fellating him during the primary and the general election. Will they continue to do so during his administration? When a free press dies, freedom dies.
Market tumbles as economy overshadows election
November 5, 2008 - 16:29 ET by MaximusBraveheartLook at that Rueters/Yahoo headline! If it were a REP, the headline would read "Market tumbles on McCain election." Is there any doubt?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081105/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks_50
M-B
Edit: This just out by the AP- Wow they did question if Obama has something to do with it! Yahh think? They actually publish the truth, once he is elected that is...
"Stocks plunge as investors ponder Obama presidency"
By SARA LEPRO and TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer Sara Lepro And Tim Paradis, Ap Business Writer – 1 min ago
http://news.yahoo.co...
Erin Burnett actually said
November 5, 2008 - 17:17 ET by motherbeltErin Burnett actually said yesterday when the market was flat, that it had already factored in an Obama win, so it probably wouldn't jump much unless McCain won.
I guess the take-away is that when McCain didn't win , it didn't just stay flat, it tumbled.
Crappola! I was Country
November 5, 2008 - 15:37 ET by Clear thinkerCrappola!
I was Country Proud way before being Country Proud was cool.
Sad Day For America
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Just the first of many
November 5, 2008 - 15:38 ET by allamericangirlJust the first of many miracles that are about to be reported about now that the Messiah has been crowned.
"Liberalism is a mental disorder" -Michael Savage
I'm moving to Austria!
November 5, 2008 - 15:46 ET by Smoking HotNot like I'm getting much action around here...
SH... Don't let the door
November 5, 2008 - 15:50 ET by bigtimerSH...
Don't let the door hit your a$$ on the way out....
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
There's something to this
November 5, 2008 - 22:01 ET by Smoking HotI facetiously made a comment as though I was going to leave the country and BT here told me to go for it in not so many words. He could have said "me too" but he didn't.
Interesting how the conservatives don't see the grass elsewhere as that much greener. USA #1, even if there are promises of unearned Austrian kisses and even if the USA just elected a Muslim socialist (not exactly). "America, love it or leave it" is the true credo through thick and thin.
What's driving this steady devotion? Someone ought to get themselves some federal grant money to study this phenomenon.
Maybe Smoke,
November 6, 2008 - 10:48 ET by IamTinmanMaybe Smoke, because I have ancestors on both sides of my family who came to this country to find freedom and have shed blood and sometimes died to protect it for almost 400 years.
From the Revolutionary War to Iraq, my family has answered the country's call whenever asked. All they asked in return was to be able to live their lives as free men and women and for some a plot of ground and a brass plaque to remind people of their sacrifices.
In my 60+ years I have traveled to every continent except Antarctica and have always returned home grateful to live in this wonderful country with it's great natural beauty and terrific people.
Sure we have problems, sometimes big ones but we have always felt secure in the knowledge that if we only work hard and apply ourselves we can have a brighter future for ourselves and our children. We are not a socialist nation and I hope the current administration does not take us too far in that direction.
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
Not to Worry...
November 5, 2008 - 16:59 ET by dodecahedronThe sweeter the honeymoon, the more bitter the divorce.
When they figure out Obama doesn't really have magic powers to make everything better, they'll turn on him.
And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn’t fully understand. -Alfred the Butler
"When they figure out Obama
November 5, 2008 - 21:21 ET by HeavyChevy"When they figure out Obama doesn't really have magic powers to make everything better, they'll turn on him."
Wait your telling me Obama can't bless my lotto ticket? Now how am I going to pay for all that "wealth spreading"...damn!
"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."
HC
November 5, 2008 - 21:29 ET by TheAssessorObama is like a 60's doper. He talks a lot, but he can't thread a needle. It's damn sad to see values disappear.
It's America, not Omerica
I know...
November 5, 2008 - 21:52 ET by HeavyChevyall we can do now is regroup and recover and be prepared to fix this mess in 4 years and brother its going to be a big mess indeed.
"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."
I've always been an
November 5, 2008 - 17:10 ET by moovovaI've always been an American, and I've always been cool! (Well, maybe I wasn't THAT cool in high school...)
I like it better when they
November 5, 2008 - 17:18 ET by TN MomI like it better when they HATE us and are afraid to mess with us!
Today we are all Americans?
November 5, 2008 - 17:23 ET by nkviking75Today, we are all Americans.
And on Jan. 20th this country will start resembling America less and less.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
There is nothing "cool" about a socialist America.
November 5, 2008 - 17:57 ET by R D HelmI'm sorry, but I despise this lying fraud that is Barack Hussein Obama with every ounce of my being. He is without a doubt a Marxist who is interested only in taking from us our freedoms and our property.
I will strenuously oppose this hideous, evil man and his anti-American agenda any and every way that I possibly can.
-Dave
Resist the Obamatons.
I'm sorry , but if this
November 5, 2008 - 17:55 ET by cocodrieI'm sorry , but if this offends anyone, lump it. The MSM gave us eight years of Bush-bashing and ruined the reputation of a decent man. Now they have given us as a president an unchristian crook, a terrorist loving marxist hoodlum. He is a four flushing scoundrel, a true Stalinist socialist. a pansy. He refused to support our troops and tried to cut off their supplies. Therefore I support the office of the president but not the man in the empty suit.
"I'm sorry , but if this
November 5, 2008 - 21:24 ET by HeavyChevy"I'm sorry , but if this offends anyone, lump it."
My friend we would send you a fine gift basket with your choice of fruit after that comment!
Preaching to the choir.
"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."
same here
November 5, 2008 - 21:26 ET by semolina_filcherI support the Presidency, not the man.
What price "cool"?
November 5, 2008 - 18:24 ET by Chris NormanGee, I refused to do a lot of stupid things in high school just so I would be considered to be "cool". I guess this putz did and continues to do so.
Obama and the media are
November 5, 2008 - 18:46 ET by zfObama and the media are infantile. Basically they are saying, "We'll do whatever the rest of the world considers 'cool' no matter how wrong or stupid it is, because we just want people to like us." How freaking shallow and weak-kneed can you get?
A hallmark of their
November 5, 2008 - 19:03 ET by Chris NormanA hallmark of their terminal stupidity is that they can't recognize just how stupid they sound.
I damn sure don't need a
November 5, 2008 - 18:38 ET by ConservativeRexI damn sure don't need a sycophantic media to even hint that it's now cool to be an American again. The media has never been proud to be an American, they have always been ashamed to be an American. White guilt put an unqualified man in our White House.
They tried to destroy a good man for eight years but he didn't listen to them. I hope at the end he tells the media to kiss his ass. But he has more class than that.
Obami is not one to bring the whole country together, he didn't get any mandate, he only got about a million more votes. Liberals are meaner than a cut snake. Let them bask for the moment. It won't last. They are spoiled children. When reality hits them they will panic. Let them. Let them get out of their own problems.
Resist everything they try to do. Fight them on every level. Fight them on the city, county, state, federal level. If we want to take ownership of our free country that honorable men have left in our care, fight them, Don't buy their newspapers, magazines or watch their networks. Even FOX network. Give your blood pressure a break. Let them see their numbers drop fast.
Write or call every Republican in your district that joins with the democrats on ANY vote. Do not let them off the hook. We must run every RINO out of our party in the next two years. Make them feel ashamed that they represent the party of Ronald Reagan. If we want our country back to normal, these are just some of the things that must be done in the next two years. Resist!!
Anybody need any further
November 5, 2008 - 19:07 ET by HockeyKidAnybody need any further proof of how shallow "the world" is?
BFD Most of the world
November 5, 2008 - 19:23 ET by SemperrightBFD
Most of the world doesn't understand indoor plumbing.
What would the world look like without us?
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference.
The MARINES don't have that problem."
President Ronald Reagan - 1985
Good evening Semper
November 5, 2008 - 22:04 ET by cocodrieYou answered your own question. The world would look like the contents of outdoor plumbing. I don't know who they can turn to for help now. I never thought I coud ever be so appresensive about America and Israel's future.
This is only according to
November 5, 2008 - 19:30 ET by balboaThis is only according to one writer's experience. This is not the proclamation of the AP or Yahoo.
Ug
November 5, 2008 - 21:53 ET by kd5463"An American colleague in Egypt says several people came up to her on
the streets of Cairo and said: "America, hooray!" Others, including
strangers, expressed congratulations with a smile and a hand over their
hearts." Yeah, because that is what we really want right now, millions of Muslims happy about who's the President of the United States. Aren't these the same people who danced in the streets when 9/11 happend?
It's even cooler to be an American with a brain!
November 6, 2008 - 10:51 ET by IamTinmanIt's even cooler to be an American with a brain! I've been on this planet for over 60 years and not for one second have I been ashamed of this country.
There are some americans whose conduct I am ashamed of but for every one of those there are thousands who see past skin color, accent, religion, and gender and appreciate the person inside!
Americans are and have always been a hardworking, law abiding, god fearing people who believe they can run their own lives with precious little government interference.
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson