Great comment. I don’t remember giving a hoot about who took over the UK. LOL
What I do remember is all the supposition about “racist America. Will they overcome racism and elect a black man?”
That soured me on giving any thought to what Europe or the rest want. Now they laugh at us thanks to Obama. I like to remind them of their attitudes in 2008. I like to remind them that so many of us were concerned about his radical ties and positions, not race, and they wouldn’t listen to what we had to say.
We were in the Hill Country (in Texas) in June for a few days. Met a wonderful older couple from London who were in the U.S. for the first time. All they wanted to talk about was politics in their country and ours and how both had changed so much in the last four years. They were very well informed about the political situation here but had a little trouble understanding why one state is so different from another. I found out I knew almost nothing about their country. They would love to come to America but said it is becoming too much like their country and Europe as a whole.
One of their final questions was, “Why don’t people here realize what is happening to them?”.