Why?
Why do they French embrace Americans now and call them the 'children of Obama'?
Why?
Why do the Mexicans like Obama?
Why?
Why do they feel so positively towards the US?
It cannot be because Obama has done anything? He hasn't done anything for them, other than to prolong the US recession, which in turn impacts their economies.
So what has he done - has he done anything to make their lives better? None. In fact, with the exception of his socialist domestic leanings, his foreign policies when they are not convoluted and arrogant, reflect much of the past - minus Bush. The same attitudes are on display, the same arrogance that we will help you fix your lives - all on display for them to see.
So why is it they feel so warmly toward the US?
My answer - because they are insipidly pathetic ignorant children who react to what they feel when they hear people speak, not to what those people do when they act. Hitler anyone. They are ripe for a totalitarian speaker and they don't even know it.
The French, German, Russian, and Indian leaders do not like Obama. The English leader would like to forget Obama. The Queen, the real head of their country - will avoid him like a plague if she can. The Egyptian president will use him if it will save his reign - but he doesn't like the guy. The Saudi King appreciates bowing, unlike Bush who didn't, Obama does - but the thing with these Arab potentates is they may smile and pat you on the back, hand you billions, but they despise weakness and Obama has done nothing but show weakness to the Arab leaders.
Arab intellectuals may well find Obama to be their mahdi, but that is in part because they are part of the problem that has allowed the anti-intellectual Islamic fascist few to dominate. The Islamic fascists find Obama to be weak and pathetic - thus engendering more hatred. The others within the Muslim world will do as they are told, and most lean toward doubt, simply because they are told to doubt the US. Despite the fact that today 25 million people are free who were not free 7 years ago - they are not interested in that. Despite the fact the US is working very hard to provide for a free Afghanistan - they are not interested in that either.
It is unfortunate that the masses of Muslims in the world demonstrate to the liberal elite in the US, repeatedly, why it is the belief that all mankind seeks freedom, is not valid. They prove it with their foolish statements and ignorant opinions on the world. They have shifted the focus from their belief system harboring the most evil of men on earth at this time, to the US being untrustworthy. That is brilliantly hilarious. It says all that needs to be said about the world Muslim opinion.
The Europeans don't realize their leaders do not like Obama for some reason - perhaps if they paid attention to how he treats them, they might understand. It is surely not because they disagree with his domestic policies - most of Europe is enamored by the failed policies of the socialist state.
Why do the Mexicans like Obama? 24 hours on US soil and they become legal residents. I would like him also, a lot. I'd be sending him a Christmas card every year thanking him for making all my illegal actions suddenly legal. Not only do they become legal residents but they have amnesty from not paying past taxes, and if they cannot afford the fine that is levied upon illegals ... it will be waived. I'd be standing in line also. I would love Obama, more than Calderon. After all, Obama offers more than their own president does. Which reminds me - you don't want to be an illegal immirgant into Mexico, from say Guatemala - you could die, or get beaten by the police and given a one way ticket back - in a box car.
It is not that I believe the United States is the single greatest country on earth - which it is, but it is very easy to see through the charade of world opinion - the pettiness, hate, racism, and ignorance is all on parade for the world to see - except the world is blind. The fact I believe we are the single greatest nation on earth does not mean we have to treat other countries poorly.
One of my best friends is a very good surfer. He has done professional competitions, and while never quite making it, is none the less, very good to even be able to compete. Me - I have no idea how to even stand on the board let alone make it move or stay on. He does not mock me, nor does he treat me like a fool because I cannot surf, and vice versa - I do not hate him because he can (except I always envied his ability with scooping up women wherever he went without effort. I do not hate him because he has an ability that few possess, and would never take a Pew Poll and claim I distrusted him, when in reality I was simply a little jealous).
I think I have made it crystal clear why the polls show what they do ....
Obama boosts U.S. image around the globe
By Chuck Raasch, Gannett National Writer
July 23, 2009
USA Today
WASHINGTON — President Obama is more popular in some key foreign countries than he is even at home, but does it matter to the United States' global interests?
That was the question in the wake of a comprehensive new study of attitudes in 25 countries toward the United States. The surveys of more than 27,000 people were taken in May and June by the Pew Global Attitudes Project. The findings show a reversal of the deep anti-Americanism that took hold during George W. Bush's presidency.
"The image of the United States has improved markedly in most parts of the world, reflecting global confidence in Barack Obama," Pew Research Center President Andrew Kohut said.
The most dramatic rises were among longtime allies, especially in Western Europe. The percentage of those favorable toward the U.S. rose from 51% in Britain in 2007 to 69% this year. In Germany, favorability more than doubled, from 30 to 64%. And it went from 39 to 75% in France. Favorable feelings toward the U.S. were also up significantly in Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and South Korea, according to Pew.
But people in many Muslim countries, including such key places as Pakistan, remain dubious about Obama and American foreign policy. Pakistani favorability toward the U.S. remained low and flat: 15% in 2007, 16% this year. The Palestinian territories had a 13% favorable rating toward the U.S. two years ago, 15% this year.
The one Muslim country where favorability toward the U.S. rose significantly was Indonesia, from 29 to 63%, which Kohut ascribed to widespread knowledge in Indonesia that Obama spent part of his childhood there.
The percentage of people expecting Obama to do the "right thing" in global affairs rose significantly in most allied countries except Israel, where U.S. popularity has actually fallen in the last two years. Views of Obama and the U.S. fell in Israel after his June 4 Cairo speech, which attempted to reassure Muslims that the U.S. was not hostile to their religion or national interests.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who served under Democratic President Bill Clinton, said the survey's results do not guarantee a new spirit of cooperation on tough problems like terrorism and climate change, but they do provide Obama with a better platform to launch what she called a necessary multilateral approach to foreign policy.
"Most Americans have been concerned about the image of America, and I think they are going to read this as good news and as a credit to Obama," Albright said at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
"The bottom line is I think we were in a hole in our reputation and leadership (under Bush), and we were not able to get what we wanted," she said. "And in fact people all over the world made fun of us, criticized us, didn't want to help at all. And this is just a lot better way to begin six months into a presidency than the other way around."
But former Republican senator and United Nations Ambassador John Danforth said that while Obama is a "rock star" to many around the globe, "I guess my response is, 'So what?' Where do we go from here? What is next?"
He noted that Obama is hugely popular in France, and that 82% of French poll respondents approved of Obama's intention to close the terrorist prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. But Danforth pointed out that when Obama asked the French government take some of the Guantanamo prisoners, France accepted only one.
Danforth also said that while Obama remained popular in France, Germany and Britain, those countries are increasingly reluctant to help fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The poll found similar contrasts between rising attitudes toward the U.S. taking a more aggressive approach to fight global warming, and the reluctance in many countries to make sacrifices to fight climate change.
"How do you get from the personal popularity of Obama to dealing with Darfur?" Danforth went on, referring to a war-ravaged region of Sudan. "I think what this says is we like the style and we like the U.S., provided it is not really doing much, and (allies) don't want to do much either."
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