Luckily for the Tea Party, Europeans don’t vote in U.S. elections. With the exception of Spain and Britain, it seems that there is little taste there for the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. Below are two articles we translated from French today that only serve to reinforce this impression.
First, columnist Daniele Fonck of Luxembourg’s Tageblatt, in an article headlines Prepare for Tea Time in America, writes that European understanding for the positions of the Tea Party is extremely limited. She goes on to deride Fox TV as ‘horrid,’ and calls the Tea Party a ‘bizarre blend of Christians, right-wing anarchists, and disappointed Republicans:’
The Tea Party dreams of “saving America” by constraining the administration and the Federal Reserve, cutting taxes, abolishing the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency, and promoting free enterprise without any constraints or controls. The seek to abolish unemployment insurance, even if seeking to preserve (at first) public health insurance for seniors – would otherwise would cost too many votes. Finished, too, would be the “socialist” policies of Obama, the left-wing press, indeed, the left in general, and the oppression of the White minority.
As amazing as it sounds: The Tea Party has considerable campaign funding and has used it against the “Kenyan crypto-Muslim,” read Barack Obama.
In the second article from Switzerland’s Le Temps headlined Cheap Advice for Obama, columnist Luis Lema writes that Barack Obama, in the face of ‘an over-the-top opposition which has been seduced by every kind of populism,’ will have to convince the country that he’s still in touch with it’s wishes – or he’ll have to ‘leave.’:
Alone, Obama has had to defend both his own record and that of his Democratic cronies. One indicator is striking: in Washington on Saturday, what constituted the largest gathering of the Democratic campaign took place in the absence of any responsible Democratic Party official. It was hosted by Jon Stewart, certainly a talented TV comedian, but one who spends his time making fun of the political system rather than finding ways to improve it.
Without a way to defend them against an over-the-top opposition which has been seduced by every kind of populism, the policies advocated by Obama haven’t made headway in much of the country. America remains committed to individual freedoms as the apple of its eye. Obama still has two years to convince her that it’s the same for him, or to leave.
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