[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Even in Europe, there is no escaping it. The United States presidential campaign is everywhere. Every tiny change in the polls wins a spot on the evening news and not a day goes by without coverage of the campaign.

There is something wrong with this. Perhaps if they quit getting caught up in the minutia of our politics and concentrated on theirs they would be better off and happier.

Physiologically this can not be healthy.

[xuberalles]

I've been over there several times. The first 15 minutes of their news is American news. It's so sad. We supposedly are ignorant warmongers, but the daily events in their own country don't even deserve equal billing. The once mighty Euros are now reduced to sniveling, drunken, jealous socialists.

[asp1]

I have always found that European obsession with American politics to be rather weird. They are truly a strange people. Most Americans don't know or even care who leads most European countries. I love the suggestion that Europeans loved Americans and had a good relationship with America in the 90's. That isn't true. Their dislike for us has been going on for a long time. Our dislike for them is something that is just formulating. I think our European "Friends" will find that we can give as good as we get.

[yoe]

There is something wrong with this.

Yes there is and it is the same prejudice in their news papers that spawn the socialistic/progressive view in this country. Let us not forget that Mr. Blair has stayed in the trenches with America; for that I am truly grateful.