has not nor will not change do to Obama's election... Why??? The "dislike" comes from their problems and their envy... They wish we were more like themselves so they could fell better about themselves because we by example point out their shortcomings......
http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/12/16/obama-anti-american-oped-cx_mk_1216kaminski.html >>> One hates to spoil a good party, but here's a bet that's far safer these >>> days than a U.S. Treasury bill: Even with Obama at the White House, they >>> won't really like us any more than before. It's not because America's not a special country, a City upon a Hill, from the Pilgrims to Obama, the Blagojevich couple and other American horrors notwithstanding. It's because it is. And as ever, our earnest assertion of our superior ontological uniqueness--not to mention its reality in and of itself--is exactly what always grated on the unfriendlies grouped together under the banner of anti-Americanism. The past few years for sure were especially happy ones for the flag burners, intellectual bomb throwers and suicide attackers. George W. Bush gave this crowd a great excuse to hate America--and the Democrats a highly effective partisan political weapon against the ruling party. .... The departure of George Bush will change the mood music in America's relations with the world, but--here's the heartbreaker for our romantics--it won't change how most people see America. Because, for "anti" masses, it's not really about us; it's about them. In this huge and diverse church that groups together the wacky nationalists from Turkey, China and Russia, Western Europe's racist xenophobes and neo-Marxists, the Islamists and other crazies, various stripes of Latin Americans, and everyone in between, America is a useful enemy to nurture. There's never been any good will there. Hence no one should hold their breaths for any forthcoming. Fair points both, I think. Yet America is different from those past empires, and I find our thin skin winning--to a point. The place attracts the hatred of assorted masses from London fine-dining table to the caves around Tora Bora because it is attractive at so many levels and isn't self-consciously a global Empire (which enrages some people even more). Our iPods, Harvards and Stanfords, Tiger Woodses and Michael Phelpses, Beyoncés and Philip Roths all constitute American power along with the dollar and the military. Above all, the country exists as an idea, and remains, Fareed Zakariaesque attestations to our decline and the rise of a post- American monde to the contrary, as alluring (and galling) as ever. Barack Obama may offer that a "new dawn of American leadership is at hand." But he and his electoral success are products of a culture of near limitless possibility that was here from the founding of the Republic; something always envied and admired by others. For better and for worse, that won't change. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
