Ya, the liberals said that we lost the respect of the world because of Bush. America would be liked and respected now that the Bush era was over. So we were told.
The liberals should be held to account for the results of their policies. From the war on poverty, to the bloodbath after the war in Vietnam, to the exponentially higher costs of entitlement programs than the liberals of the day predicted, the liberals are seldom right about what will happen when we follow their policies.
I think even China is getting a little peeved by all this debt spending.
I think the dirty little secret is that the rest of the world isn’t very thrilled about America giving up its roll as the leader of the free world in order to become just another dirty little banana republic with a corrupt government. The world has enough of those already.