Blogger Michael van der Galien, based in the Netherlands, reports that a group of Dutch Youth Socialists are traveling to the United States to campaign for Barack Obama.
I received an e-mail I found quite interesting. The Jonge Socialisten asked me whether I would like to travel to America with them shortly before the U.S. elections in order to do ‘research.’
Now, before readers will think this would be a great opportunity for me to visit the country I write about so frequently, the trip had a specific partisan purpose despite it being described as ‘research’: They would travel to the United States to campaign for Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for the presidency.
In fact, one of the demands of potential applicants is that they need to have a “great affinity with the Democratic Party and Barack Obama.”
Finding Dutch Youth Socialists with a special affinity for the policies of the Democratic Party and Barack Obama shouldn’t be too hard to find. But perhaps they should take Van der Galien’s advice instead:
Perhaps these ‘Jong Socialisten’ should stop trying to influence the elections in other countries and, instead, do their best to fix the problems they created in this one.
Instead they’ll come over here and help create problems for us.
by Stephan Tawney on Fri, Oct 10, 2008