Business as usual is the change of the day... WOW! Makes you wonder why the commies like OBAMA so much...doesn't it? LIB - LEFT - COMMIE...all the same thing. Sounds like OBAMA is ready to roll over...like the french did with Hitler.

Gorbachev calls on Obama to carry out 'perestroika' in the U.S.

MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said that the Obama administration in the United States needs far-reaching 'perestroika' reforms to overcome the financial crisis and restore balance in the world.

The term perestroika, meaning restructuring, was used by Gorbachev in the late 1980s to describe a series of reforms that abolished state planning in the Soviet Union.

In an interview with Italy's La Stampa published on Friday, Gorbachev said President-elect Barack Obama needs to fundamentally change the misguided course followed by President George W. Bush over the past eight years.

Gorbachev said that after transforming his country in the late 1980s, he had told the Americans that it was their turn to act, but that Washington, celebrating its Cold War victory, was not interested in "a new model of a society, where politics, economics and morals went hand in hand."

He said the Republicans have failed to realize that the Soviet Union no longer exists, that Europe has changed, and that new powers like China, Brazil and Mexico have emerged as important players on the world stage.

He told the paper that the world is waiting for Obama to act, and that the White House needs to restore trust in cooperation with the United States among the Russians.

"This is a man of our times, he is capable of restarting dialogue, all the more since the circumstances will allow him to get out of a dead-end situation. Barack Obama has not had a very long career, but it is hard to find faults, and he has led an election campaign winning over the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton herself. We can judge from this that this person is capable of engaging in dialogue and understanding current realities."

Former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, founder of now defunct Yukos oil giant, who is in prison on fraud and tax evasion charges, also used the word perestroika in discussing the future course of the Obama administration.

In an article published in the business daily Vedomosti on Friday, Khodorkovsky said Obama's election win was not merely another change of power in a separate country, but was important for all states.

He said that, "being a liberal himself, he thinks that the world will take a left turn," and that "a global perestroika would be a logical response to the global crisis."

"The paradigm of global development is about to change. The era inaugurated by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher 30 years ago is over."

He said decisions in neoliberal economies had been made mainly by supranational institutions and transnational corporations.

Khodorkovsky predicted: "Globalization will slow to a crawl, but will not stop. The 'golden billion' of the world's richest people will have to abandon hopes of increasing their wealth, but high consumer standards which developed at the end of the 20th century will be unaffected by the change. The striving for political freedom and open competition of personalities and ideas will not disappear."


http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081107/118196981.html

I kinda feel sorry for the conservatives.I havent mocked a single right winger since they got crushed in the election.The Republican party got damaged (maybe permanently) by Bush and the Neo-Cons.

Nah... REPS won't sit by and left the loonies kill this nation.... two years...

Then why did Obama and the Democrats win so big in the election?The Republicans weren't sitting by then either.

Two years" There's allot of Republican seats up for reelection. I would hate to think if it went bad for you. Could be a good time for a third party to make itself known. What do I know, Im just an Independent...

Well I went thru this already...

The down turn of the market...

OBAMA went back on his pledge with respect to campaign money & outspent McCain (which I wonder how much foreign money he got & how many favors he will owe at the expense of the American People?) Makes you wonder if he lied to McCain what lies will be revealed when he takes office? We'll know soon enough...right? They are already making excuses & he hasn't even taken office yet.

They didn't win so big... I don't see this as something negative ...I think when people see what the loonies will do they will be so outraged that they will kick this bunch out too. I don't think the voters are going to put up with the lies or being ignored anymore. OBAMA would be smart to realize that before he goes along with the LIB lunacy.

That's the short of it...

Well, yeah thats what Republicans hope will happen,but they was also hoping to win this election and look how that turned out.But yeah, eventually this country will swing back to the right.

Mostly we need checks & balances....without that we are done.

Quickie...why do you keep referring to liberals as "Loony Left".?? Are you not able to express an idea without rediculing someone who doesnt agree with your viewpoints..??

Thats a tried and true neo-con tactic..attack a person or idea when your own values dont hold water...

Uh...people in glass houses should throw stones.

there's alot of that on both sides. I really do try to understand but when I see articles like what I posted it doesn't look like the sort of change I want for my country. Socialist communism is not where this country should go.

I don't want the govt. dictating everything we say & do.