Posted on 01/19/2007 6:18:34 AM PST by IrishMike
THEY LOVE to hate George W. Bush, though not America or Americans. That’s what they say in the United States, and maybe in Canada, too. They loved Bill Clinton, the golden boy with the golden smile, and his biting of the lower lip when instant sorrow was called for.
Then George W. Bush came and spoiled it all. They comfort themselves that he wasn’t elected. He was imposed on the American people by the Supreme Court, putty in his hands even before he could grip the levers of power.
Bush is widely hated, as countless public opinion polls have shown. But abhorring him doesn’t nearly explain the dislike of America, as an essay titled "Western Europe’s America Problem," in the Chronicle of Higher Education, illuminates.
It is good that Andrei S. Markovits, professor of comparative politics and German studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, decided to publish this adaptation from his soon-to-be-published book, Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America (Princeton University Press).
Mr. Markovits unveils right at the opening what this is all about – the huge misconception, implied or actually believed around the world, that anti-Americanism is something new. He uses a subtle example to demonstrate that it is the opposite: a malignant growth as old as the hills.
Nearly half a century ago, when he and his father arrived in the United States from Romania by way of Vienna, he writes, neither of them spoke a word of English. But the New York families who gave them shelter all spoke some German. "What impressed me no end and will always remain with me," he goes on, "was how all those people adored my Viennese-accented German."
(Excerpt) Read more at thechronicleherald.ca ...
Obama fits right into that golden boy-"the world just loves your President" image. He will do at least as much damage to our country if not more than did Bill Clinton.
A pitiably naive attitude.
A Libyan dissident, a feminist writer in Egypt, or an Iraqi intellectual who decries Western indifference to their plight or American tolerance of regional dictatorships will be told to quit whining and get a lifeThat's the current leftist-liberal attitude today. If you're not complaining about the horrors of "neo-conservatism" or the horrors of Christianity, then don't complain at all. Nobody wants to hear about Castro's jails or Islam's 3/4 billion female slaves.
....and Europe should feel safe.
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You are right, I guess the writer is not keeping up with European current events and the ongoing Jihad being waged against it.
The hatred (and negative polls), if that's what one wants to call it, was created by the hourly, daily, monthly, yearly negative criticism, distortions/lies, and attacks (propaganda) against Bush perpetrated by the MSM and the Liberal Democrat Party with no counterattack by the GOP. Had the leadership of the GOP had any gonads whatsoever, the poll numbers would not be where they are. The preoccupied, intellectually-lazy American people suck up the propaganda in the Liberal newspapers and watch the anti-Bush nightly Liberal news.
The American people will not realize they've been brainwashed until the affects of the destructive US House of Liberals becomes obvious in their daily lives. The next terrorist attack on US soil will be a rude and costly awakening.
Of the Bush administration? Sounds like the writer has contracted the disease.
Obama or as Kennedy says what is his name , what is his name, not going to be loved so much. Clinton on the move. Just out this morning Obama went to an Islamic school for radicals in the far east.Same school where they teach men to hate Americans. Good bye golden boy, hello Hillary!Fox and friends this morning.
Sounds like the writer has contracted the disease.
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Sounds that way, as has most of his fellow Canadians,
Canada being a proxy 'wanna' be European Country
I have said it many times. Europe has always hated the US. We are totally opposite of their elitist model.
What I fail to understand is this:
Why is Europe so damned socialist? What happened in Europe that they defeat communism then want to become just like those they defeated?
From your lips to God's ears. Truth is truth and you just spoke it.
whoops, wrong thread
They loved Bill Clinton, but he could never get 50 percent of the popular vote.
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An acquaintance of mine (a U.S. expat) related to me how difficult it was for her daughter to pass an English class in Austria. The daughter was failing because she spoke (and wrote) "American" English and not "British" English.
It never occurred to me that it might be case of prejudice rather than an actual language problem. This article makes me wonder.
Good studies of anti Americanism recognize it as their problem, not ours. I think it is much exaggerated, as almost all of our NATO allies are now involved in the ME somewhere. As for Bush, he threw down the gauntlet vs evil. No surprise then that the evil, immoral, and godless hate him and love Clinton.
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