Good Job, Brownie

IBD ^ | April 18, 2008

[Kaslin]

Diplomacy: Democrats have hammered the Bush administration for supposedly losing allies and global standing. But a look at U.S. ties shows Bush to be a master diplomat who is strengthening U.S. relations all over.

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"The world owes President Bush a debt of gratitude in leading the world in our determination to root out terrorism," said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a man whose recent elevation to office was supposed to denote a "cooling" of relations with the U.S. and a tilt toward Europe.

But Europe isn't really "cooling," either.

France is now led by a man elected as "le Americain." Like Brown, President Nicolas Sarkozy had nothing but good things to say about Bush.

"We spent hours discussing important issues, commercial, economic and others, and I would say that we have done so in a spirit of openness and trust and that is something I have been particularly struck by," Sarkozy said last November. "And when I say that the French people love the American people, that is the truth and nothing but the truth."

Where exactly is the animosity Bush's critics keep talking about?

In Italy, all we can find is another enthusiastically pro-Bush prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who won high office this week in a landslide. "What I did counted in my relationship with Bush," he said this month in his campaign.

In Germany, led by conservative and U.S.-friendly Chancellor Angela Merkel, the sentiment has also gone pro-American, as it has in the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and Canada.

[ronnie raygun]

Let us not fall victim to these socialist, marxists, elitest morons that will bring us back to the Carter years while our friends abroad are following a good example, AMERICA!

[NewLand]

I posted all of these same facts/thoughts here on FR in 2007...media is just catching up to reality.

[DrDeb]

BTT!

[Oztrich Boy]

He’s doing a heck of a job

[Vince Ferrer]

Don’t forget Africa either.

[Kaslin]

From the editorial

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Across Africa, it's also about Bush's commitment to democracy and development. Tens of thousands of people greeted Bush in several countries this year, hailing him as their continent's great friend.

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[iowamark]

Excellent.

[Rikstir]

Give me! Give me!

Shillingi! Shillingi! Tafedhali!!!

Give me!!!

[PGalt]

President Bush, the elected representative of the greatest nation in the history of western civilization, set a precedent.

Thank you President Bush.