twobyfour:

Well yes, you and I know that what Euros think is irrelevant. Unfortunately, in one of the greatest intellectual swindles in history, Yurp is perceived by too many Americans as a repository of wisdom and moral authority. This despite giving us a pair of world wars, industrialized genocide and vicious political philosophies which enslaved and immiserated half the planet. This atop centuries plundering vast colonial empires. Go figure.

The kind of Americans who think morality emerges from a UN sub-committee consensus and believe it’s more important to be well liked than to do the right thing have bought in to the whole media-manufactured demonization of this country which somehow must be rectified by Obama and Hillary. How much influence the ceaseless global ‘struggle session’ against George Bush’s America had on this election is anyone’s guess.

But I’ll reckon millions of insecure Americans were reassured on January 20th by the cooing approval off BBC-America. ‘See how much everyone hates you’ will be replaced by ‘see how much more pleasant it is when you do what we want’. Hollywood will pitch in, making movies about heroic and cool American presidents, like they did throughout the 90′s.

As for the connection between Obama and a shrinking standard of living, it’s been 70 years and we’re still trying to disabuse the notion that FDR rescued us all from the Great Depression.