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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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 Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:29 am Post subject: Buffett backs Obama |
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FRANKFURT (AFP) - Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, is backing Barak Obama for US president
Buffett told a press conference here Monday he had offered support to both Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton but that since it appeared Obama would win the party's nomination, "I will be very happy if he is elected president.
"He is my choice," Buffett said. |
http://news.yahoo.com
Buffett has referred to Obama as one of his heroes, along with his father, investment guru Ben Graham and a couple others.
Buffett said:
"I've got a conviction about him that I don't get very often....He has as much potential as anyone I've seen to have an important impact over his lifetime on the course that America takes". |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Oh he's just a latte liberal, koolaid drinking Obama cultist.
*sarcasm* |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Milwaukiedave wrote: |
Oh he's just a latte liberal, koolaid drinking Obama cultist.
*sarcasm* |
No, he's not. He's been very clear that he would support either Hillary or Barack. He's not one of those fools who would vote Republican because he doesn't like one of the candidates' personalities. He's an issues man. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Fukuyama backs Obama for US presidency
By Eleanor Hall
He is one of America's most famous neo-conservatives and his ideas on the spread of democracy have informed the Bush administration's foreign policy.
But Francis Fukuyama, the author of The End of History and Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, is now a sharp critic of US President George W Bush and has even come out as a supporter of Democrat frontrunner Barack Obama for president.
Professor Fukuyama is particularly scathing about the Bush policy in Iraq but he says that regardless of who is elected to lead it next, the United States is about to undergo a significant transformation.
In Sydney as a guest of Sydney University United States Studies Centre, Professor Fukuyama spoke with The World Today's Eleanor Hall.
ELEANOR HALL: So what advice do you have for the next president of the United States on foreign policy?
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA: I think that the US as a result of Iraq has really alienated itself from a good deal of the global public. Not just people in the Middle East where anti-Americanism is at an all-time high but from its European allies, from a lot of publics in places where there ought to be a lot of sympathy.
So I think the United States needs to reconnect with the world. It needs to do some symbolic things like, we shouldn't torture people, so as a first symbolic gesture I think the new president ought to close Guantanamo and I think in general what you need is a shift.
There needs to be great downplaying of the whole war on terrorism. To call it a war I think has over-militarised our objectives and the means that we have used to prosecute it, and I think there has to be a greater shift to the use of soft power in projecting American influence and then there are large areas of the world where we have kind of neglected thinking about things like east Asia where you have obviously got some very big changes going off.
ELEANOR HALL: So which president do you think would be the best placed to handle these challenges? Would it be president McCain, president Obama or a president Clinton?
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA: Well, it is a little bit difficult. In my own thinking since I have to vote in this next election, I personally actually don't want to see a Republican re-elected because I have a general view of the way democratic processes should work and if your party is responsible for a big policy failure, you shouldn't be rewarded by being re-elected.
I think of all the Republicans, McCain in many ways is the most attractive but he is still is too, you know, he comes from the school that places too much reliance on hard military power as a means of spreading American influence.
I think in many ways, Hillary Clinton represents both the good and the bad things of the 1990s and there is something in the style of the Clintons that never really appealed to me and so I think of all the three, Obama probably has the greatest promise of delivering a different kind of politics.
ELEANOR HALL: That is a big shift for you, isn't it? To go from a registered Republican voter to an Obama supporter.
ELEANOR HALL: Barack Obama talks a lot about sort of big change and what sort of revolution do you expect him to deliver in the United States if he does become president?
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA: That is an interesting question because I think that one of our problems in the United States is that the existing polarisation has gotten very debilitating, where you cannot talk about certain issues like raising taxes or starting a program in investing in infrastructure without this being cast in this old ideological debate. So I think that he probably has got a better chance at trying to forge a different kind of rhetoric. Different ways of thinking about that.
ELEANOR HALL: Do you expect to see a real shift in America? In 10 years' time will it be a very different place if Barack Obama is elected?
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA: I think the shift will happen regardless of who is elected. I think that the politics of the country is going to be different. I think in tone and certainly in terms of the international perception of the United States, if you elected someone like Obama, it is really going to be really quite something I think to witness and I think that is why a lot of people would like to see him as president because it symbolises the ability of the United States really in some way to renew itself in a very unexpected way.
ELEANOR HALL: Are you one of those historians who sees an inevitable decline in US power though over the next couple of decades?
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA: I don't think American power is going to decline in absolute terms but what is happening manifestly in the world is that there are other power centres that are growing.
So you have got China and India and the rest of east Asia and that is going to happen regardless of what the United States does, so one way or the other so relative power is certainly going to decline.
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