US image in world slips as conflicts deflate Obama euphoria

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US image in world slips as conflicts deflate Obama euphoria

Post by Riddick » 07-04-2013 11:43 PM

Even with President Barack Obama fresh off a trip to Africa and headed in late summer for a trip to Russia, people outside the United States take a less favorable view of America than they did right after he became president.

Surveys from different parts of the world show the initial goodwill toward the U.S. from the international community after Obama assumed office has waned and recent headlines point to some reasons why -- Revelations of U.S. international surveillance, the manhunt of information leaker Edward Snowden, drone strikes in foreign countries and the continued unrest in Syria have exposed the traditional fault lines of international relations.

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Post by kbot » 07-05-2013 10:52 AM

From the article:

"Right after Obama won in 2008, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in working to end apartheid, gushed, “It can't be true that Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan, is the next president of the United States. But it is true, exhilaratingly true. An unbelievable turnaround.”


So, here's the issue - initial favorability ratings were based on (wait for it.....) - race. Even though we've been told that we cannot judge on race, the rest of the world, apparently did.

Then, after the rest of the world caught-up with us, and started looking at Obama's record, they discovered what many of us already knew, namely that Obama not only maintained, but actually expanded those programs that the country and the world hated about GW Bush.

That Obama campaigned on ending these programs, and then went and did the exact polar opposite shows that (well to me at least) he can't be trusted. For a candidate and a political party to campaign on "keeping the government out of your (fill-in-the-blank), the Far Left has proven itself to be not the equal of the GOP, to far surpass it.

Obama's lowered the bar considerably..........

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Post by Riddick » 07-05-2013 01:10 PM

The problem isn't race, it's gender.

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