When Obama was elected, there were expectations of a different focus on the political stage, Europe found it quite interesting, but to say that all countries agree with his political message is to "throw stones in a glass cage"

Ehm, no. Call it anything you want, but it is not regressive. For it to be regressive, it would have to have the desire to return to a previous state. Since the US has never in its history been Socialist, any "Socialist twist" can by definition not be regressive as it doesn't return to any previous state. You are confusing "regressive" and "bad" here.
Anyway, I don't want to be a language nazi so let's just keep it at this.

Are egocentric people successful because they are egocentric, or are they egocentric because they are successful?
As long as you're not egocentric towards your friends, being egocentric towards other people doesn't have too much effect on you;)

Anyway, I can agree with you that most Europeans don't understand the "American idea of individual rights". You Americans on the other hand do not understand the idea of community, caring for other people.


Also, I've got one really nice question for you: drugs.
How can it be that in the US, with its highly valued individual rights, an individual cannot decide for himself if he uses drugs or not. While in the "socialist" Netherlands where the government supposedly decides everything for you, you can?
One very enormous fail of these supposed individual rights in the US, don't you think?

You mean Bavaria pilsener?:D For a lifelong supply of Bavaria I'll become a Capitalist right away!

Couldn't agree more with the both of you:yep:

Where are you from?

It would be interesting to analyze this from a factual standpoint rather than rhetoric, but I need a base point to being.

*Sigh*Pehaps you should check your history prior to assuming that what you want to believe is necessarily right.

...or do Europeans prefer to percieve the world as what they want it to be rather than what it is?

From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Communist_Party Now, please dispute this FACT before dismissing it out of hand.

...because, in fact, this is specifically what Morris was referring to. Or are we merely going to wish that it weren't so, state it in writing, and smugly expect the rest of the objective world to come around in agreement?

I hate to say it, but while I disagree in general with Bubblehead's conclusions, Europeans and their sympathizers, at least in this thread, are offering up no resistance whatsoever, and are rather busy patting themselves on the back for their "you must be kidding" responses which actually do nothing to factually refute the concepts Morris presents.

Commissar Obama re-writes history
 

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...n_an_idea.html

by at least 40 years at that.:hmmm:

LOL nothing he says or does surprises me anymore really.Obviously he does not know his history very well.

Like this statement puts his personality on the game, which I am not surprised at, now more anything can happen

Obama flaw #186

Does not believe in American greatness.

Did anyone notice how he couldn't at least choke out the "by our creator..." when he said "endowed with certain unalienable rights"?

When was this interview?

it was just another blow hard address by a useless bird turd of a human being - I dont think it was an interview.

Surely it was a bird that flew unusually wobbly, in the ether

While it's true the United States declared independence before Mexico did, the first permanent settlement on the North American continent was St. Augustine, founded in 1565. The first English settlement was Jamestown, founded 42 years later, in 1607.

Technically speaking, the Mexicans' ancestors had a city going here a generation before the Americans' ancestors did.

Very true but those where Spaniards, not Mexicans. I think what is happening here is a different interpretation of the facts. Ask yourself this, if Mexicans weren't Mexican before September 16, 1810, does that mean that we were not Americans before July 4, 1776? Bottom line Obama is a politician speaking at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Politics as usual.

Color it any way you like. The fact is that their ancestors were here before our ancestors.

I agree that Obama is just another politician, and not one I have any love for, but it seems to me that more and more this forum is filling up with far-right tripe hype, more and more ranting and less and less discussion.