Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that the most important thing he could achieve as president would be to deal with Iraq and the threat of al Qaeda in Afghanistan while improving "our influence around the world."
In his first interview since the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, Obama said he thinks the United States' influence around the world has been diminishing.
"The world wants to see the United States lead. They've been disappointed and disillusioned over the last seven, eight years," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview on "The Situation Room."
Of course the world wants to see the United States lead. They don't want to make the tough decisions about world affairs. They'd rather America deal with the world's problems, then they could bitch about it when things don't go exactly the way they hoped. They want America to lead because they don't want to open up their own pocketbooks to pay for aid for poorer nations and natural disasters.
When was the last time you heard of a disaster happening and China or Russia taking control over things and making sure that things got back to normal? That's right, you haven't because it hasn't happened.
Sure, they may have made some token gifts from time to time, but by and large, the United States deals with problems that don't even effect us.
I don't know about you all out there, but I'd like to see a fundamental "change" that Obama's spewing out, but what I want to see, is something catastrophic happen to a nation that previously hated our guts, and we tell them to go talk to China or Russia, or simply to go fuck themselves.
Travis
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