Obama does not come from the same tradition as his predecessors. He is interested in Asia and Russia, not Europe. There is no sense of a privileged relationship. They seem to take us for granted sometimes.
And perish the thought that Europe is being taken for granted because it is run by docile wimps and loyal Quislings who are happy to betray European interests for a photo-op at the White House.
Why pay for what you can get for free?
The fact that Barosso is an incompetent moron and that Bliar's ego tripping character assassination of the new Council chairman and the foreign affairs commissioner still lingers in the English-speaking press probably doesn't help either.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
It looks pathetic from afar. Imagine what it looks like to the actual guy. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
It looks pathetic from afar. Imagine what it looks like to the actual guy.
yup. buncha little kids, clamoring for charisma.... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~