A Sick-and-Tired World Serves Notice to the United States

[FlyingSquirrel]

http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1768

A. Alexander, December 16th, 2007

For the rest of the world, a tired and weary and sick-and-tired of being sick-and-tired world, it is incomprehensible that some 30 percent of the American people still look upon George W. Bush with approving eyes. One gets the sense that -- after having witnessed a Democratic-led Congress become the willing enabler for a rogue Executive -- the global community has come to realize that the United States of America is truly a lost cause. It is an empire on the verge of a precipitous and complete collapse unlike anything humankind has ever witnessed. And, as proven at the climate talks in Bali, the world's leaders and people have rightfully lost all respect for the United States and its current Presidential so-called leadership.

During the full two week period of the Bali Climate Conference, Mister Bush and his people did their best to undermine any and every attempt made at achieving a consensus on how best to combat and reduce the impacts of global warming. Finally, having grown bone-tired of constantly having to, for the better part of seven years, gently massage the oversized ego of America's megalomaniac President, the world hit back ... and it hit back hard.

For what could be the first time in American history, all of Europe had threatened to boycott a United States-led conference. The conference to be boycotted would have been Mister Bush's very own climate conference. Yes, because the "Boy Who Never Grew-Up" and the man-child who still refuses to play well with others, simply cannot believe that his opinion isn't the only one that matters. He felt the need to make-up his own rules for combating global warming and in order to do that, he had to have his very own, "I'm a Very Important Person" climate conference ... sponsored, no doubt, by EXXON Oil.

And so it was. For the rest of the world, a tired and weary and sick-and-tired of being sick-and-tired world, the time had come. Mister Bush, the leader of a onetime superpower-turned-banana republic, was given his full comeuppance:

"In a hushed conference hall, as envoys from almost 190 nations looked on, the delegate from Papua New Guinea leaned into his microphone.

" 'We seek your leadership,' Kevin Conrad told the Americans at the UN conference on climate change. 'But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way.' ''

And with that, the world served notice. The United States and its Democratic-led Congress can have their Mister Bush and they can all choke on his madness, but the rest of the world will no longer feel compelled to soothe the ego of fools and lunatics.

[FlyingSquirrel]

1. What Happened Afterward

http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/morenews.php?id=3682

The World to Bush - 'Get Out of the Way': US Backs Down After Needling

Toronto Star, December 16th, 2007

In a hushed conference hall, as envoys from almost 190 nations looked on, the delegate from Papua New Guinea leaned into his microphone.

"We seek your leadership," Kevin Conrad told the Americans at the UN conference on climate change. "But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way.''

The conference exploded with applause, the U.S. delegation backed down, and the way was cleared yesterday for adoption of the "Bali road map" after a dramatic half-hour that set the stage for a grinding two years of climate talks to come.

"This is the beginning, not the end," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who made a plea here for action, said later.

"We will have to engage in more complex, long and difficult negotiations.''

The Bali summit was charged with launching negotiations to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012.

[PSPS]

2. I heard that exchange on CBC radio and it was, I think, a watershed moment.

I've not heard anything like that before.

Did any of the domestic propaganda MSM deign to air it?

[babylonsister]

3. I thank the rest of the world for having more sense than we do. And

Nancy, are you listening?

[Gregorian]

4. Americans need an energy education. And a twelve step program.

I've been watching the reckless abandon that the collective society is hell bent on living. Cars, VCRs, bigger houses, and all the rest. And the denial that we are more than just addicted. We're dependent. The party was over a long time ago. The drunken guests haven't left. And now they're going to find out they can't leave. It's going to be ugly. I'm sorry. I'm afraid.

So a new leader takes the steering wheel of the bus that has been run without oil, and crashed onto the side of the road in a ditch. And he/she asks, "So where do you want to go!?". I'm afraid the choices are limited.

[tom_paine]

5. Good for the world. About time they stopped appeasing our Bush-Nazis

Don't they know what happened the last time the World made that mistake?

Don't they know the Bushies are and always have been the biggest of the Nazis' fans and allies in America?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000651

[greenman3610]

6. sort of an "at long last, sir, have you no decency?" moment

[FlyingSquirrel]

7. Should probably merge this thread with:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x326260