Is that the goal? Cheap and fast? Hmmmm... maybe I'm going about this totally wrong after all.

Of course the French would love a socialist like Obama.

Ellet Wilson you need to understand what being  an American is all about, and what America represents. America represents diversity which is the mainstay of its strength, its resiliency, its perseverance. By attempting to destroy that, with your way of thinking, is UNAMERICAN. America will continue to be the greatest nation because of your relatives way back yonder, who made it possible for you to be here. I am sure not everyone of your relatives made it here legally. To deny those who are born here citizenship, is to destroy the fabric of this great country. Your wish will not be granted. This is the Lord's territory. This is the land which supports and maintains freedom world wide.

I am shocked that people are impressed with what Europeans think. I don't care. They need to remember who saved them and what use to be their countries instead of the European Unions. Barack Hussein Obama will not be the man I vote for. Even though some change may be needed I don't want it to be for the worse.

Funny how Republicans are constantly chided for being the party of fear... yet all I hear is that more Republican presidency will destroy the WORLD!!!!

At least be honest about your own fear-mongering.

Yes, that's JUST what we need, to become MORE like the socialists in Europe and to the North. Hey smart guy, read The Federalist Papers and you'll realize our electoral system was DESIGNED to be complicated and drawn out. And Lapinoid, please explain to us how electing a President who believes government screws things up more than it fixes them will lead to the extinction of the human race. It's assinine comments like that that give Marxist psuedo-intellectuals a bad name. If you socialists want to debate the issues, great, but stop regurgitating your propaganda you heard from the latest Michael Moore or Al Gore "Documentary" or read on some far-left web blog. This country was established on principles of LIMITED GOVERNMENT and the idea that the only thing government does well is take power and rights from its citizens. The bottom line is socialism is absolutley NOT compatible with our constitution and the ideas of limited government established therein. The ONLY way to establish socialism in the United States is to destroy and subvert the very document this country was founded on. Members of the American Socialist Workers Party (AKA Democrats) and the Europeans they love so much should try READING it, the Federalist Papers and the ideas Jefferson expressed to Madison in his letters from France that he wrote while the constitution was being written before they decide to make stupid statements that are illogical and factually incorrect.

Some of the previous comments are typical of self-centered individualism that a majority of Americans are proud of. I have lived in and/or visited France many times in the past 40 years teaching American politics to French students and French politics to American students. Many Americans hate the French for the same reason many French hate Americans: we are much more alike than different. They do not have a parliamentary system they have a presidental one (since 1958) and in fifty years they have only chosen a liberal one once (Mitterand). All of the rest have been conservatives. But they are fascinated with this election because while they generally dislike blacks from Africa (or Haiti), they love African-American culture and personalities. When it comes to hating taxes and government interference in their lives and being told by foreigners how they should change, the French are easily as fiercely independent as we are.

Being an American whose maternal language in French. I have been very aware of everything going on in France because of my mom who keeps me abreast of the news there. I have one thing to say to France.  They said earlier this year, that the "magic" was gone in regards to the US, well just tell France that the magic is back and it is gone to be more powerful than ever before. Once again we can proudly say : "only in America....."  Desolee la France de vous avoir decu.

Americans should also remember that we would have lost the Revolutionary War without French help, and never "conquered" the middle third of the US (Louisiana Purchase)without buying it from the French. The French lost half of their male population aged 18-45 in WWI which ended in a stalemate between the British and the Germans who both wanted the war. The US role miltarily was insignificant in WWI. The US fought the Nazis in WWII to save the British not the French. If the Germans had never attacked Britain there is good historical evidence that we were only interested in containing German influence in continental Europe and would have concentrated only on the Japanese in Asia after Pearl harbor. Why don't some of you actually read a little more history instead of repeat myths you heard in grade school?

What a tremendous evening for Barack Obama and the Democrats; a Hollywood production filmed on location in Colorado. Mr Obama is an excellent actor but too inexperienced to be President.He must be returned to the Senate.

I continue to fail to understand why anyone but compassionless multi-millionaires vote Republican. The rest of you guys are being duped. Europe almost destroyed itself in rivaliries in World War II, and though it learned, at a huge cost, what really matters. While we have the "richest and the best," the average person, and the people most in need, tend to live better in Europe than in the US.

But the biggest, BIGGEST problem is this: In the US, you can work full time or more, very hard, and still be in poverty. I think we may be the only industrialized country where that's true. And we expect people to value hard work? I love this country, but the fact that we have so many working poor is humiliating. The fact that both parents have to work all the time, for companies cutting their wage, and endorsing Republican candidates who talk about "family values" when they're a big part of the reason these people can't be at home with their kids -- I mean, it's beyond hypocritical.

And I am a multi-millionaire. So what's your excuse?

The French have chosen a socialist society where people are taxed 80% of their earnings. They love Obama. Does that tell you anything about what Obama would like to see happen in the USA? Oh, and by the way, the French response to WWII was to first capitulate and then cooperate with those that sought to destroy France. If they love Obama, that's enough for me to know I don't.

@Lapinoid Leland: Since you speak for "many people in the rest of the world", I have to point out that I am one of those people in the rest of the world. Africa, to be precise and with traceable roots going back to 1733.

Based on my family's personal experience over these 275 years, I am convinced that Barack Husein Obama is the one who will prove to be the extinction ticket for firstly, all that we admire in the great USA, and ultimately also for the rest of the human race.

It is with deep concern and sadness that we watch you being gullibly led astry by his showmanship and empty promises.

PLEASE come to your senses and support John McCain, our only hope, a true hero with a very admirable life story and properly equipped to keep your country and the rest of us from harm.

Dear Americans,

Your country is not just one of countries in the world.
Your country is the leadership of the world.
So, in a way, you have to elect not only for your country, but also for the world.... which is ultimately for your country too.
And all the rest of countries in the world, not only Europe, but also Far east and Middle east and Africa, all are looking forward to seeing Americans make the right decision for the world.

MY Wish ----- I want to respect again Amerca --- the ideal and the people who are decent and genuinely good.

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