tom swift
2008-04-02 14:50:29
“A top concern for voters in November will be a candidate’s ability to raise American prestige.”
This is an odd statement. It’s not a concern at all in my corner of the country. America’s prestige has never been higher. The author (and Europe, perhaps) doesn’t want America to be prestigious; he wants it to go back to being everybody’s whipping boy. That’s not any sort of prestige I’m willing to vote for. Pandering to European neuroses, inferiority complexes, and nostalgia for their lost empires is not something to which Americans outside of Washington and New York assign a high priority.
