denem (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-04-09 11:42 AM
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As Obama arrives, Czechs fear appeasement and socialism.
That Big Moment for Czechs? Not So Big
... Czech officials say they are privately praying that Klaus won’t lecture Mr. Obama on how to run the United States economy or offer him his latest book, “Blue Planet in Green Shackles,†which argues that the fight against global warming is a threat to freedom.
Even without the Czech political storm or the indomitable Mr. Klaus, however, the Obama mania evident across the Continent is tempered here. Czechs have looked with growing alarm at what many perceive as Mr. Obama’s forsaking of the free-market principles that this country ardently embraced after decades under Communism ...
Martin Kotas, 34, a bar owner and staunch supporter of Senator John McCain, the former Republican presidential candidate, recalled that he had literally cried into his beer the night Mr. Obama was elected president. “We don’t want to be under the influence of Putin’s Russia and we don’t want socialism,†he said.
Mr. Kotas said he worried that Mr. Obama, after completing a review of American security policy, would abandon plans to install a missile-defense radar system in the Czech Republic. The proposed system has polarized Czech society, but many nevertheless view it as an essential bulwark against Russia.
“I am worried that people are projecting all of their hopes onto Obama, that they are hypnotized by him,†Mr. Kotas said. His overriding fear, he added, was that Mr. Obama would “lead the world on a path of appeasement.â€
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/world/europe/04czech....
fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-04-09 11:45 AM
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1. so Czechs have a conservative corporate nut as well
these people are not ok in the head. Global warming is a real and dangerous problem all life on this planet has got to content with. No time for corporate corrupt reasoning...
...or any type of reasoned debate.
Thrill (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-04-09 11:55 AM
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3. "in a nation where President Ronald Reagan remains the unrivaled hero of the Cold War"
All you need to know.
Maybe when you're done crawling up Chris Matthew's leg you can explain how you, whose only exposure to Soviet oppression has been little more than fawning academic illusions, trumps the actual experience of people who had to live under the heel of Marxist tyranny.
ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-04-09 12:10 PM
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6. Czech leaders are bellicose fascists like the GOP. They use the same demonizing buzzwords.
Edited on Sat Apr-04-09 12:11 PM by ClarkUSA
I'm glad that President Obama is snubbing them and their insults for a nice dinner with Michelle in Prague tonight.
They'll have to make do with being phony assholes towards President Obama during tomorrow morning's breakfast
meeting.
No, ass-dribble they've suffered for almost a century under fascists and Marxists and now that they've gotten their nation back they are resisting the idiocy of the new Neville Chamberlain.
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