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Korea Times Assistant Managing Editor Oh Young-jin wants Americans to vote for Hope ™.
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I stopped reading when he blamed mad cow hysteria and the accompanying vigils on the US. (I’d like to blame today’s rainy weather on the US, by the way. Anybody else concur?)
Anybody remember reading this guy’s articles after the 2002 accident involving those middle school girls?
“But during the campaigning period thus far, Americans have shown reason prevails over such prejudices and bigotry.”
Now if only the majority of Koreans could follow suit….
meaning in reference to mad cow
I got as far as the opening sentence of the second paragraph:
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That was enough to trigger the internal alarm and start me pouring this mook a big thermos-full of STFU.
Glutton for punishment, I managed to get further before quitting after this ignorant bit:
Barack Obama Sr. was not an immigrant but a foreign student who achieved his purpose of obtaining a high quality US education and returning back home. And no longer possible? When was the last time a biracial American with a foreign name held a high political office? This joker’s free to offer an endorsement, but I sure as heck hope no American takes voting tips from a KT editor.
When Obama loses in November, America will be called a nation of racists by the clueless billions around the planet.
And since the clown mentioned Kyoto, here’s an inconvenient graph:
http://blogs.news.com.au/daily.....e_warming/
without even reading why he endorses Obama, he is obviously an idiot liberal.
Obama is bad for Korea.
He wants to do what you guys want.
1. No KOR-US FTA.
2. No USFK.
3. Probably no visa waivers. (Reads, No Jangmo nims and associated Burberry buyers visitng at free will)
Obama even wants to re-negotiate past FTA’s with other countries, NAFTA for example.
He doesn’t believe in free trade “.”
His source of popularity is with ending the war.
He’s going to raises taxes, no doubt.
He doesn’t have an economic plan. All he talks of is there will be money around, because taxes will be up on the “rich”, and the “war will end”. And his Woon-ha, the rebuilding of interstate highways.
this is a bullshit plan.
You want Pawi gone?
I think listening to dissent is part of the whole package.
You have to listen to Obama,
although I want him to STFU.
Sprewer, leave Korea, divorce your wife, you may look healthy outside, but your mind is rotten with unhappiness.
Koreans, what did the Democrats ever do FOR YOU?
Helped you get into college, right? Affirmative Action didn’t help you? No way?
Wake the fuck up. You’re not the qualifying minority group. That Louisiana governor Indian dude, that dude has his head on right and tight.
Obama likes to talk of his brothers and sisters across the globe.
If you look at it in a bad way,
it means his father was had the mind of a male prostitute, sleeping with and marrying anyone he wanted to.
His mother married several times as well.
I mean, you ever heard of the parallel tales about Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo Hyun, how their Moms had several different guys porking them, so as to be unsure of their paternities? (It might be a huge Kyong Sang Do myth)
No one talks about these things.
This is America.
I don’t care about all that shit, as long as the war’s ending, and with all that money laying around,
somebody will rescue my mortgage,
save my job,
lower food prices,
lower gas prices (I’ll get to drive my guzzie again),
and give me free health care.
Vote for Obama.
I think you’re voting for a lier.
Reminds me of this master stroke by The Guardian during the 2004 presidential election:
http://www.slate.com/id/2109217/
#7 to add to your points, it was The Republicans who freed the slaves, not the Dems.
#9: Let’s hope the Grauniad expands their campaign this time and newspapers around the globe join the bandwagon.
I read the entire article, and came away impressed with this reporter’s ability to write about American and global politics. Well done, Mr? Oh Young-Jin, and I shall consider what you wrote carefully.
Obama would be really really bad for Korea.
Obama and expats in Korea fit like hand and glove because Obama advocates everything what the expats here have advocated - complete disengagement from and no trade with South Korea. There you go, here’s your chance to get what you all wish for. Vote for the liberals.
#10: Being more of an Obama man, I rather hope the Grundy has learned its lesson.
I know the differences are legion, but one thing that struck me about that episode was its parallels with American attempts to promote democracy in the Middle East. That is, just as the endorsement of cappuccino-quaffing Guardianistas can spell doom for the likes of John Kerry in the US heartland, American support can actually be a handicap to pro-democracy movements in Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, etc.
I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Guardian reader, and even I remember cringing in horror at the Clark County thing. How they ever thought that would work is beyond me.
“Hello, I’m a person you’ve never met, from a country you’ve probably never been to. I have somehow come to the belief that I have the moral authority to tell you who to vote for…”
And I’m, in a lot of ways, a socialist.
Obama is a fraud. Figures KT would support him.
“Many cases show what a mess the world is in right now as a consequence of action and inaction by the U.S. _ the Iraq war and angry Muslims; no Kyoto Protocols and global warming; U.S. foot-dragging and North Korean possession of nuclear bombs; and U.S. beef and candlelit vigils, to name but a few.”
The second to last point, Nork nukes, absolutely unde-fuckin-fiable display of Klogic at work. I am no Bush supporter (I’m an Aussie/Brit who was leaning towards Ron Paul, actually) but I would highlight the six party talks and the Bush administration’s willingness to engage that rotten regime as one of the triumphs of his tenure. What’s more, Young-jin should thank 대통 Bush-ee that his/her country is not a pile of smoking nuclear crap.