Europe’s Mosh Pit Of Anti-Americanism Awaits Barack Obama With Open Arms By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Obama may demand on the campaign trail that no one dare question his patriotism, but for Germans, disliking the U.S. is nothing to hide. Yet this is the place Obama’s team thought would be best to hold a rally to boost his campaign.
Pew’s 2008 survey found that 34% of Germans don’t like Americans at all or in part, and 61% regard the U.S. as headed for something like history’s ash heap, to be supplanted by China.
That is relevant to why Germans are cheering for Obama. He has consistently expounded a worldview that espouses the moral equivalency of nations, rather than importance of U.S. leadership. He’s a big fan of letting the U.N. make America’s foreign policy decisions, consistent with shrinking U.S. influence in the world.
He has also expressed embarrassment at the U.S. compared with Europe, for example, in its mastery of languages — as if the lingual fragmentation of Europe’s tiny nations vs. the continental span of the U.S. were comparable conditions for learning languages.
Not a word, of course, about America’s military, financial or technical superiority over Europe. Just lots of European-style mantras about American differences being somehow proof of inferiority.
An America Firster he’s not. Heck, it was a battle just to get him, a candidate for the highest office in the land, to pin an American flag to his lapel. No wonder they cheer Obama in Germany.
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Obama’s Euro Tour 2008 might backfire on him yet.
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