Obama trip to Europe
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I am a naturalized American citizen living in Brussels, Belgium.
I share the feeling with so many others abroad that people around the world continue to look to America for moral leadership in world politics. I believe that Barack Obama could provide that moral leadership for America and for the world.
In this context it is important to understand the meaning of morality as 'moral intelligence' as opposed to the authoritarian interpretation of the word in the sense of 'moralism'. American moralism is the basis for American foreign policy and the American definition of the role of commander-in-chief.
In keeping with Obama's stand for change in Washington, we need a new definition for the role of commander-in-chief as a moral leader or 'statesman' who stands for peaceful and therefore moral solutions to human political problems. The function of America's president as commander-in-chief would be to promote freedom in the true sense of the word i.e. freedom of rational conscience or 'moral freedom' - a universal human aspiration and the basis for true democracy.
I share the feeling with so many others abroad that people around the world continue to look to America for moral leadership in world politics. I believe that Barack Obama could provide that moral leadership for America and for the world.
In this context it is important to understand the meaning of morality as 'moral intelligence' as opposed to the authoritarian interpretation of the word in the sense of 'moralism'. American moralism is the basis for American foreign policy and the American definition of the role of commander-in-chief.
In keeping with Obama's stand for change in Washington, we need a new definition for the role of commander-in-chief as a moral leader or 'statesman' who stands for peaceful and therefore moral solutions to human political problems. The function of America's president as commander-in-chief would be to promote freedom in the true sense of the word i.e. freedom of rational conscience or 'moral freedom' - a universal human aspiration and the basis for true democracy.
It is imperative the holder of the office understand the world not just the United States.
To understand the different cultures of the world and have the respect of the majority of the world's people strengthen's the US.
The curreent President is dumb as a stump and has no understanding of the different cultures in the US. He has no comprehension of the cultures of the world.
He has the respect of less than 30% of the US citizens and far less of the people of the world.
Barack Obama could change all of this.
George Bush has some very inteligent aquaintences. That does not make him intelligent
You vote on the canidate.
Obama is not a racist, a communist, a terrorist or a mobster.
Anybody with a half of a brain knows that whether thay are supporting him or not.