I am bone-tired defending President Barack Hussein Obama...

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34. babylonsister

babylonsister

I am that little weird fellow from Norway - a little country in the north of Europe - a small but prosperous country who for the most part is more or less unknown for the rest of the world.. Our nabours Sweden and Denmark - not to say Finland is far more known by others, than Norway... We are most known for our fjords our Viking heritage - even though it is a long time since the Vikings was plundering the rest of the Europe - and for the Nobel Peace Prize - who your current US president won in 2009 - even though many wondered why.. I think one of the reasons was out of a hope that Obama would be a better smarter president than GWB had been..

And yes, we have written with each other many times over the years, and possible get to know a little about each others on the way too..

Well, I have always been fascinated by the americans from I as little.. Even though I was not sure where you all was first .. Oh well, as I grow, I learned little more about you all - I believed I had a grasp on your politic when you managed to elect the worst president in modern time, George Walker Bush jr as your president - for the next 8 year it was a roller coaster of up and downs, twist and turns - and I learned a lot, that I admit, had no clue about was happening in the US... It was a steep learning cure for sure, to get to know little more of the inner working of the US political speaking.. And I guess, I as a foreigner, living on the other side of the pound, also have just bits and parts of the political game in the US... In all I think USA is a confusing country - on the other side you act and speak in a way most people can understand - and then turn around and do the opposite of what is expected...
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I have even visited United States - once - even though it was a long time ago, before 9/11 2001, I was just there for 2 weeks, but it was 2 weeks who really made a impact on me for years to come.. Even thought I was just in one single State (Florida) it was impressing what I was able to visit - and specially the visit to Kennedy Space Center was something who as high on my list of places to visit if ever coming to the US.. I have always been interested in your space program, and followed as closely as I was able to, your space shuttle program for almost 30 year.. And it was also long before the TSA state where even little old womans like my foster mother got trouble with - as she had the new passports the americans demanded - and they doesn't had the equipment necessary to proses the passports.. She was not amused being put in a small rom with a lot of others for 4 hours - even though she in the end was allowed access to the US.. To New Orleans and Bourbon Street with the Jazz... (Lucky bastard!) She had a great time there - but she have said, that she would not come back again.. As she put it - the TSA was worse than the old eastern European border guards under the cold war in Bulgaria - At least the guards there was professionals and was polite with the customers (we as visitors to the country).. She had just disdain for the TSA, as she called them just bully's with uniforms..

I think US and the american people need as many allies all over the world as you can get - we are when everything come to it - in the same boat against some horrible forces who want to make 90-95 percent of the population into slaves for big money... And they seen to forgetting the fact, if people get enough they tend to make things ugly for the 1 percent... Something I think americans seen to have forgetting - I suspect you are not learning to much about that in school...

I was even wondering about emigrating to the US in the late 1990s - but for many reasons I was not emigrating to the US... And I guess I did the right thing in the end... The US of the 2000s was kind of horrible compared to the 1990s USA..

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