politiek Category

Olle Johansson, Sweden

The new craze in the southern states of America is the 2007/8 presidential election campaign sticker of Barack Obama. It says Run Barack Run, Republican campaign strategist Frank Luntz said. 
Luntz: "But I put it on the front of my car."

The biggest sponsor of rightwing Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich is billionaire casino king Sheldon Adelson. He already gave $21 million till now to the campaign of Gingrich and is considering donating another cool $100 million. That's how obsceen politics in the U.S. has become. Adelson can afford it, he's good for at least $25 billion. 
When the casino mogul was asked if it was fair to influence an election like this, he said:

“I’m against very wealthy ­people attempting to or influencing elections,” he shrugs. “But as long as it’s doable I’m going to do it.”

But why would he spent so much money on Gingrich? Very likely a loser. Well, Adelson is buying public policy. In this case, the Middle East policies of Republican Newt Gingrich. 
Adelson, who hopes that his son will become a sniper in the Israeli Defense Force, wants for example to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Gingrich said he will do so on his very first day as U.S. president. Adelson also was pleased with Gingrich’s description of Palestinians as “an invented people.”
Indeed, that kind of policies.

GeenStijl zelf ziet het zo:

"Maar het pakte eventjes anders uit. Achter Castricums rug zaten namelijk Frɇnk van der Linden en Felix Rottenberg met hele grote messen en hakbijlen klaar. Om die nare eikel van het PowNews eens goed te paybacken voor al het leed dat hij hun grote held Job Cohen had aangedaan."

Reacties op GeenStijl:

De witte poeder is Rutger naar zijn hoofd gestegen en wat over is gebleven is een enorme lul. (XelaGBS)

Dat [lees: daar] zit je dan met je grote mond. Felix Rottenberg blijft een baas! (m@rkus)

De opmerking van Matthijs dat Rutger een bange indruk maakte was vrij dodelijk!! (truthmatters)

Rutger heeft gelijk. Als je hém niet eens aankan, hoe wil je dan een land - laat staan een stad - leiden?!? Dat wordt leiden met een lange ij en dat is dus ook het geval gebleken. Te sympathiek voor een job (J) waarin je keihard moet zijn. (macmiep.nl)

Tja. DWDD is dan ook geen programma voor hoogstaande interviews. [..] DWDD is oppervlakkige entertainment, en wat dat betreft niet eens zo ver verwijderd van Pownews.
Rutger & Felix sitting in a tree. *gaap*.
Matthijs - dát is pas een slechte...

Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ

Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com

The approval rating of President Obama is up to 50 percent while 42 percent of Americans have a positive feeling about Mitt Romney.
Rick Santorum's approval rating is 33 pct. His sweater vest comes in at 17 pct.
Ice cream is ahead of all candidates at 97 pct.

Yes we can show Romney he sucks for another cool 57 million dollars.
By the way a lot of it is not his but his friends money.

The next states where Republicans will be voting in one week are Arizona and Michigan. Michigan is particularly important because it is the home state of Republican contender Mitt Romney. Now that Rick Santorum is the main opponent of Romney people have to pay attention to what comes out of his mouth.
This happened just this week. Santorum comparing Obama to Hitler. Santorum's spokesman talking about the radical Islamic policies of Obama.

In the polls Rick Santorum is doing almost as well as Romney:

ARIZONA (PPP): Romney 36, Santorum 33, Gingrich 16, Paul 9
MICHIGAN (PPP): Santorum 37, Romney 33, Paul 15, Gingrich 10
MICHIGAN (We Ask America): Romney 29, Santorum 29, Paul 12, Gingrich 10

Look at Texas though... wow. Luckily for Romney Texans won't vote till May 29.
University of Texas/Texas Tribune. 2/8-15.

Yaakov Kirschen, Dry Bones, Israel

This is what writer Tim Egan had to say  in the NYTimes about the electoral process in the United States. The Republican primary electorate looks more like the population that the U.S. in 1890 than in 2012  than in 2012:

"There is no other way to put this without resorting to demographic bluntness: the small fraction of Americans who are trying to pick the Republican nominee are old, white, uniformly Christian and unrepresentative of the nation at large."

I wouldn't be to sure about that David Roberts. A majority of Republican primary voters dislike Mitt Romney a lot more more than Rick Santorum. In the polls Santorum is ahead in Romney's home state of Michigan. If he wins there, Romney is in deep trouble.

That's the problem with religious freaks like Rick Santorum. Not only do they believe in something never seen, never proven, something that created the wurm that bores through the eyes of innocent chlldren in Africa blinding them forever, they also can't be wrong. They have God on their side.
And of course the other man's God is false, like Obama's God. This is what Republican frontrunner Rick Santorum had to say about Obama's God. So if fundamentalist Christian Santorum will become the Republican nominee, get ready for the false prophet real prophet debate, like, well... medieval times:

The “president’s agenda” is “not about you,” he said. “It’s not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your job.

“It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology,” Santorum said to applause from the crowd. “Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology.”

Pavel Constantin, Romania

Arab News

The approval rating of President Obama is at the highest level since a year. More than half of the Americans now approve of what he's doing. 
Finally his well thought out strategy of not being any of the Republican candidates is paying off.

The debate about whether birth control should be a part of health insurance will be over soon in the U.S. Science has come to the help of the christian rightwing.
Republican Jeanine Nutter from New Hampshire explains her male collegues all about protecting their prostates from the evil workings of the pill for women:

Republican New Hampshire Representatove Jeanine Notter:  “As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Brownstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?”, Notter asked state Rep. Andrew Manuse (R-Derry). 
“In the children that are born from these women?” a confused Manuse replied.
“Women take the pill and it’s in their bodies - I’m very anti-chemical - and the men pick it up,” she explained.

Christo Komarnitski, Bulgaria

RJ Matson, Roll Call

Students in the U.S. begin their life after study with a debt of now totalling 1000.0000.000.000 dollars... one trillion dollars, the reality of life in America. Last year Americans for the first time had more education debt than debt on their creditcards. Young people graduating have an average debt of more than $25,000. 

This is what Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum said in a speech recently:

"If we follow the path of President Obama and his overt hostility to faith in America, then we are heading down the road to the guillotine."

That's why Santorum is surging ahead of Romney in the polls. With every sentence he hits on all things Republicans love: logical fallacies, Obama paranoia, and fuck the French.

Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland, Germany

Rob Tornoe, Media Matters