[AppyPappy]

They'll be wearing beards and praying East soon.

[PjhCPA]

My daughter is attending university there for a semester. (That's how the say "going to college".) She reports the exact same thing. Luckily she will be returning before the end of the year.

[Dallas59]

It must be difficult for them being so neurotic.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

'swhat the Clintons had in mind for the rest of us.

[SE Mom]

Wow.

[cripplecreek]

"the tone transformed from criticism of Bush to berating not just the president but anyone who supported him."


That is exactly why the democrats lost. It's normal for candidates to attack each other but the democrats took it to a whole new level when they began attacking the american people who opposed John Kerry.

[Ginifer]

I was stationed in England (RAF Chicksands) for three years and the younger people were horrendous. The first thing I heard getting off the flight was "Yankee go home". The older people were very nice, but they also remember WWII. The food is terrible...very bland, everything with wrinkled peas and baked tomatoes. There are some interesting sites to see and the beer is quite good. It's nice to visit, but I kissed the ground in the US when I came back. No place like America.

[DainBramage]

It all boils down to they have to support us, not the other way around.

We own them and they hate it.

[sleeper-has-awakened]

Your account doesn't really sound much different than being here in Chicago. I'm always amused when someone is speaking to me about how great liberal ideas are, how stupid Bush and republicans are, how they don't even know one person who would vote for Bush.

This is the point where I tell them I like Bush, voted for him twice, and agree with many of his positions. I love the jaw-dropping-shock look on their face after this.

[Samwise]

Sounds like what I see on CBS, ABC, and CNN.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Please don't encourage Guardian readers and other EUrinals to come over here "to see for themselves." They damage the purity of our air by breathing it and their creepy postures and shabby clothes hurt our eyes. Also, they shouldn't leave the thin "blue zones" on the coasts, some of the good ol' boys might hear their foreign accents, mistake them for liberals, and feed them to the snakes and 'gators.

[Rammer]

"Let me first say that the Brits are great people!"

With all due respect, this statement is completely incongruous with every other statement made in your post.

I can't read everything else you wrote and still believe that they are "great people".

[Varda]

My son spent several weeks there attending university classes. His experiences mirror yours. What surprised me was that even university professors are ignorant about America but assume they are knowledgeable.

[FReepaholic]

The difference between Americans and Europeans is genetic.

We are descendants of brave people who threw off the yoke of tyranny whereas their ancestors embraced it.

[UncleSamUSA]

NavyGuy:
Thanks very much for that report.

It must be a very bitter pill indeed for the memebers of the Greatest Generation who gave their blood and their lives to liberate Europe from the Nazis to see what has become of that continent some 60 years on.

Most of those GGers are now in their 80s and it must be painful to watch as Europe slips in rabid anti-Americanism and appeasement of terrorists... almost identical to the hate of the Nazis that they gave their lives to defeat.

It is sad indeed, but slowly the mainstream of America WILL come to see Europe not as some sort of benevolent father figure, as has been the case for arguably 200 years, but as a deranged and corrupted enemy of all that America stands for.

And then the day of reckoning will arrive.

[Europeans4astrongamerica]

I lived there for 5 years, left one year ago. If it is any consolation to you - the situation is worse in continental Europe, where I am now living. The intensity of negative feelings toward Bush is intense, and it has long since impacted general sentiments towards Americans. I wish I could say I don't give a xxxx, but I do. Perhaps most disappointing is the attitude of Eastern Europeans - who have quickly forgotten how and why the wall came down. They have not only joined the EU, but also the "Hate America" Bandwagon. I did read somewhere recently that Poles supported Bush over Kerry - can't confirm this as I haven't been there recently - but if they did they are the exception even in Central/Eastern Europe.I am left thinking that the current Anti-Americanism was latent, and waiting to come out - the roots are complex, but based in simple insecurity and jealousy. Bush is simply a likely catalyst, as his style does not appeal to European elitists. (A politiciian who says what he thinks, and does what he ssays...he m u s t be dumb!)

[Dallas59]

When we were in Florida, most of the Brits were very nice and friendly. A couple marveled at my Dodge Ram pickup at our hotel. They liked my North Texas accent. They are the ones that need to travel to America and see for themselves what America is.

[chimera]

Maybe it's just me, but if I were a citizen of a relatively small and somewhat weak (militarily speaking) country, I would be very reluctant to bad mouth a firm and steadfast ally who shed blood and spent treasure in common cause over the course of two world wars, whose aid and comfort made a decisive difference in both, who protected my country and my neighbors from the threat of Soviet dominance for a half century, who forgave billions in war debt and asked nothing in return, no territory, no reparations, no exclusive trade agreements, no oaths of loyalty or bonds of obedience. Especially would I avoid criticism of that same country and it's people who are simply exercising their God-given right to live in freedom and choose the person they think is best suited to lead them and serve their interests in their highest elective office. I really don't understand why the British, and Europeans on the continent, would do this. We've been nothing but friendly and supportive of those countries, and here they have nothing better to do than complain about our electoral process and the choices we make. It really is strange.

So, I guess, bottom line, it might be best to say to hell with those who would stab us in the back so callously. I just hope the next time they get themselves in a jam and are looking for someone to pull their nuts from the fire, they remember what they've said and done.

[45semi]

You dont have to go overseas to find people who think the Southern part of the United States is a 3rd world!

[GarySpFc]

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