The article is very good, but the author misses what is probably the most important layer of all: the European contempt for America's high level of religiosity. This explains why, when Billy Bob was president, while speaking religious language with a wink and a nudge, at that time Anti-Americanism was very low. He was one of "them". It also explains their irrational hatred of the very religious Bush - whose actual policies are (from a European POV) not much different from Clinton's.
A quick look at history since the Enlightement will show that the major rift between Europe and the US is the fact that most of the US churches still have people in them.
that is a good point - I don't know if many people realize just how big a role anti-Christian sentiment plays in the attitudes the left and the Europeans have towards America. It is very ironic, as this article pointed out, that Europeans (as well as our own leftists) trash "middle America" for having no history, no culture, no traditions but also trash us for being largely religious. Do they even realize that religion is responsible for the culture, history, and traditions of Europe that they take so much pride in?