Uh, do we give a ....
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/2004_County_Results_Final.html
Are we supposed to care what Europeans think...I believe such thoughts were settled 228 years ago (1776). Still, it is ironic that "Cultured Civilized Europe" comes crying to US when some powder keg blows in its backyard (Bosnia)>...
The armies of "Old Europe" combined are, I understand, only a small fraction of the US military forces.
When we feel threatened, they can't help us, even if they wanted to.
When they feel threatened, they know we will shed blood to defend them - we've done it for a century now.
So they can afford to throw their tantrums and live in their little bubble.
They ignore the realities of world around them, and they can afford to. Like a college kid living in his parents' basement.
They have not "stepped up to the plate" and taken responsibility for security and democracy.
We have.
I don't care what they think of us.
They should feel only shame . . .
Let them eat cake...
I'm very angry at Europe. But, I think I have a fresh take in that all of these countries that were supposed to be so different after WWII are showing themselves to be just the same nationalistic, socialistic, me-me-me countries they were back in the pre-WWII bad old days. It's a huge disappointment, and I wish it weren't the case. It's like "So This Is How My Grandparents Felt Watching A Major World War Brewing And Nobody Seeming To Be Able To Do A Thing To Stop It." Except for us, and I fear we aren't going to be able to prevent it starting, though I'm damned confident we will FINISH IT.
Waiting for the media to take polls here in America to see what we think of France!
Americans are supposed to put European interests ahead of their own? To ask permission before defending themselves? To apologize for being the world's only superpower? Europe is delusional. In the immortal words of that Francophile, John F...king Kerry, "Sit down and shut up."
France and Germany I hate them I really and truly hate them.
Nobody gives a crap about me hating them any more than I give a crap about them hating us, I am not Jealous like they are ,I just hate folks who are jealous of the USA and call it hate.
He makes a good point. Outside the US there is no equivalent to the Republican Party. In any typical country, the left party and the right party would both fit comfortably within our Democratic Party.
What passes for "conservatism" in Europe and in Latin America is the traditionalist meaning of the word. So-called "Christian Democrats" are what passes for conservatives, and they are conservative in the sense that they see themselves as culturally western, and tend to be marginally more nationalist than the more left leaning socialists. But Christian Democrats are still socialists. They still favor central control of the economy, and accept most of the presumptions of the welfare state.
As a consequence, there is no basis for understanding there of traditional Americanism. They accept the leftist analysis of who we are without a second thought. If it is so hard for conservatives to get a fair hearing in the press in the US, where they are half the electorate, it should be no surprise that they get no hearing at all outside the US. It should be no surprise then that Europe and the rest of the world consistently misread out motives, and consistently get it wrong.
So, Europeans don't know how to use the internet? Or is it that socialism has so rotted their brains that they don't know how to, nor care to, think for themselves?
A friend just got back from Spain, France and Italy. She came back with horrifying stories of how hated she was when people found out she was from the US.
Liberals like to talk about how the world loved us when Clinton was in charge and how they hate us now. I wish they would realize we were loved like a comedy is "loved". They were laughing at us for those eight years.
"It is important to understand that modern American conservatism has no equivalent in Europe and has never been accepted as legitimate in European intellectual circles"
And the Dems would have it be that way over here.
That's better!!
Dominate the world? Huh? Most of the world is undeveloped, poorly run, illiterate, and brimming with corruption. Why would we want to own it?