European Socialist
Mr. Canfield’s letter in the Delaware County Times of 10/10 claimed: “Obama is a European style Socialist...”
For the past two years, our son has been assigned to NATO headquarters in Brussels Belgium. We’ve visited twice and had opportunities to tour Belgium, France and Netherlands. Our observation were that whatever, Canfield’s understanding is of European style Socialism, it’s working very well for them.
Our grandson was born in Brussels and our daughter-in-law writes: “I would have had a much different experience had I given birth in the U.S., and feel so incredibly fortunate to have done it here.” According to the annual State of the World’s Mothers report, “The United States has more neonatal intensive care beds per person than Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, but its newborn death rate is higher than any of those countries.”
The use of caesarean sections have increased greatly in the US as compared to Europe. One of the factors contributing to an increase in caesarean sections is fear of litigation. Litigation concerning infant delivery has become a relatively common phenomenon in the US and insurance companies require a much higher premiums of obstetricians compared with most other medical practitioners. C-section is major surgery and always carries greater risk.
An editorial by Jonathan Freedland was published in the British newspaper, “The Guardian.” Freedman suggests that a generation of young Americans, who fervently back Obama will turn cynical and conclude that politics doesn’t work after all, and many African Americans will decide that if the very gifted Barack Obama could not win, then no black man can ever be elected president. The rejection of Obama by voters would be deemed as all about race and the color of Obama’s skin.
If McCain wins in November, the Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is not only with the Bush regime, but with the American people. For it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once in a generation chance, for the fresh start, that the world is yearning for. Unfortunately, Europeans don’t understand how voter suppression in a key battleground state could again negated the the choice of the a majority of the American voters.
McCain’s campaign manager boasts that this election is not about the issues. International opinion would therefore conclude that in the end America couldn’t put its own self interest ahead of its crazy irrationality over race. For voters to make a decision, while fighting two wars on the trivial basis of a likable hockey mom would convey a lack of seriousness and suggest a nation in decline.
We have some catching up to do, because many Europeans are far ahead of Americans in critical thinking, health care, energy conservation, public transportation, and tolerance of those with a darker skin color.
For the past two years, our son has been assigned to NATO headquarters in Brussels Belgium. We’ve visited twice and had opportunities to tour Belgium, France and Netherlands. Our observation were that whatever, Canfield’s understanding is of European style Socialism, it’s working very well for them.
Our grandson was born in Brussels and our daughter-in-law writes: “I would have had a much different experience had I given birth in the U.S., and feel so incredibly fortunate to have done it here.” According to the annual State of the World’s Mothers report, “The United States has more neonatal intensive care beds per person than Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, but its newborn death rate is higher than any of those countries.”
The use of caesarean sections have increased greatly in the US as compared to Europe. One of the factors contributing to an increase in caesarean sections is fear of litigation. Litigation concerning infant delivery has become a relatively common phenomenon in the US and insurance companies require a much higher premiums of obstetricians compared with most other medical practitioners. C-section is major surgery and always carries greater risk.
An editorial by Jonathan Freedland was published in the British newspaper, “The Guardian.” Freedman suggests that a generation of young Americans, who fervently back Obama will turn cynical and conclude that politics doesn’t work after all, and many African Americans will decide that if the very gifted Barack Obama could not win, then no black man can ever be elected president. The rejection of Obama by voters would be deemed as all about race and the color of Obama’s skin.
If McCain wins in November, the Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is not only with the Bush regime, but with the American people. For it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once in a generation chance, for the fresh start, that the world is yearning for. Unfortunately, Europeans don’t understand how voter suppression in a key battleground state could again negated the the choice of the a majority of the American voters.
McCain’s campaign manager boasts that this election is not about the issues. International opinion would therefore conclude that in the end America couldn’t put its own self interest ahead of its crazy irrationality over race. For voters to make a decision, while fighting two wars on the trivial basis of a likable hockey mom would convey a lack of seriousness and suggest a nation in decline.
We have some catching up to do, because many Europeans are far ahead of Americans in critical thinking, health care, energy conservation, public transportation, and tolerance of those with a darker skin color.
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