Poll finds soaring European support for US policy

Do you think the English care what the people of the US think about England?

Do you think the French care what the people of the US think about France?

Do you think the Russians care what the people of
the US think about Russia?

ditto every other country?

America's self-esteem does not rest in what other countries THINK of us; but rests in what its citizenships THINK of America!

Get a grip!!!! We worry about the leadership in power. We, as a people, love our country. We just don't love what the leadership of both parties is DOING to our country.

I love America!

Funny how a simple apology, engaging with our partners, not being arrogant, giving a speech to the Muslim world and open to dialog with our enemies can bring better security at home and abroad, lead to pro-western governments being elected in Lebanon and Palestine along with the people of Iran standing up against that regime.

President Obama has been brilliant in every aspect of his Presidency and he will without a doubt be one of our greatest Presidents once his policies kick in and completely reverse the devastation of the Bush years.

Wruss wrote:

Do you think the English care what the people of the US think about England?

Dear, we have to work with other countries on many serious world issues so for heck's we should care about what other countries think of us.

Or perhaps you prefer the disdain and disrespect and yes derision they have felt for us in the past?

Wruss wrote:

Get a grip!!!! We, as a people, love our country.

Then getting "a grip" would mean that other countries would "love our country" too.

After all it can't harm, can it?

Considering how most the world loathed US foreign policy under President George W Bush, the voters last November were wise to elect a President who treats other nations with dignity and respect.

Cowboy diplomacy is over, and nobody misses it. We'll be on much better terms with the rest of the world because the previous Administration is gone.

Obama is an abject failure in foreign policy.

Wruss wrote:

Do you think the English care what the people of the US think about England?
Do you think the French care what the people of the US think about France?
Do you think the Russians care what the people of
the US think about Russia?
ditto every other country?
America's self-esteem does not rest in what other countries THINK of us; but rests in what its citizenships THINK of America!
Get a grip!!!! We worry about the leadership in power. We, as a people, love our country. We just don't love what the leadership of both parties is DOING to our country.
I love America!

The obvious, embedded, Bush mentality.

Yeah...The Sorry For Americans Tour Has Reaped Obama Personal Favors With The Communists And Dictators...Guess Bowing To The Saudi King Helped Too...To Bad The Majority Of Americans Dont Want What Hes Cooking...Or Care What The Weak In This World Think Of Us!

Liberal, Socialist, Boobs!

Just reading the blurb I see they list Afghanistan as Euros supporting it? THAT'S A LIE.

CBO Chief under Clinton Warns: Americans now OWE More than Worth

By JOHN FUND

Washington, D.C.

David Walker sounds like a modern-day Paul Revere as he warns about the country's perilous future. "We suffer from a fiscal cancer," he tells a meeting of the National Taxpayers Union, the nation's oldest anti-tax lobby.

"Our off balance sheet obligations associated with Social Security and Medicare put us in a $56 trillion financial hole—and that's before the recession was officially declared last year.

America now owes more than Americans are worth—and the gap is growing!"

Mr. Walker identifies the disease as having a basic cause: "Washington is totally out of touch and out of control," he sighs. "There is political courage there, but there is far more political careerism and people dodging real solutions."

He identifies entrenched incumbency as a real obstacle to change. "Members of Congress ensure they have gerrymandered seats where they pick the voters rather than the voters picking them and then they pass out money to special interests who then make sure they have so much money that no one can easily challenge them," he laments. He believes gerrymandering should be curbed and term limits imposed if for no other reason than to inject some new blood into the system.

On campaign finance, he supports a narrow constitutional amendment that would bar congressional candidates from accepting contributions from people who can't vote for them: "If people can't vote in a district not their own, should we allow them to spend unlimited money on behalf of someone across the country?"

What kind of reforms would Mr. Walker hope the commission would endorse? He suggests giving presidents the power to make line-item cuts in budgets that would then require a majority vote in Congress to override. He would also want private-sector accounting standards extended to pensions, health programs and environmental costs. "Social Security reform is a layup, much easier than Medicare," he told me. He believes gradual increases in the retirement age, a modest change in cost-of-living payments and raising the cap on income subject to payroll taxes would solve its long-term problems.

Medicare is a much bigger challenge, exacerbated by the addition of a drug entitlement component in 2003, pushed through a Republican Congress by the Bush administration. "The true costs of that were hidden from both Congress and the people," Mr. Walker says sternly. "The real liability is some $8 trillion."

He says his stimulus bill was sold as something it wasn't: "A number of people had agendas other than stimulus, and they shaped the package."

As for health care, "President Obama got the sequence wrong by advocating expanding coverage before we've proven our ability to control costs," he says. "If we don't get our fiscal house in order, but create new obligations we'll have a Thelma and Louise moment where we go over the cliff."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297...

Of course the socialists in Europe approve of Obama. Weak, Miserable, Cowardly, Socialists Love Company.

I bet they would just LOVE Van Jones to death over there.

gee whiz. these apologies and being nice have really helped us internationally: the polls say people support us now. how many troops are the europeans sending to afghanistan? what has iran done besides thumb its nose at us? sure, it creates a nice warm and fuzzy feeling, but where the rubber hits the road, i see no improvement...

Group hug time?

Marine Corp Pat wrote:

Funny how a simple apology, engaging with our partners, not being arrogant, giving a speech to the Muslim world and open to dialog with our enemies can bring better security at home and abroad, lead to pro-western governments being elected in Lebanon and Palestine along with the people of Iran standing up against that regime.
President Obama has been brilliant in every aspect of his Presidency and he will without a doubt be one of our greatest Presidents once his policies kick in and completely reverse the devastation of the Bush years.

Read more: Camille Paglia, Opinion, Barack Obama

Sept. 9, 2009 | What a difference a month makes! When my last controversial column posted on Salon in the second week of August, most Democrats seemed frozen in suspended animation, not daring to criticize the Obama administration's bungling of healthcare reform lest it give aid and comfort to the GOP. Well, that ice dam sure broke with a roar. Dissident Democrats found their voices, and by late August even the liberal lemmings of the mainstream media, from CBS to CNN, had drastically altered their tone of reportage, from priggish disdain of the town hall insurgency to frank admission of serious problems in the healthcare bills as well as of Obama's declining national support.

But this tonic dose of truth-telling may be too little too late. As an Obama supporter and contributor, I am outraged at the slowness with which the standing army of Democratic consultants and commentators publicly expressed discontent with the administration's strategic missteps this year. I suspect there had been private grumbling all along, but the media warhorses failed to speak out when they should have -- from week one after the inauguration, when Obama went flat as a rug in letting Congress pass that obscenely bloated stimulus package. Had more Democrats protested, the administration would have felt less arrogantly emboldened to jam through a cap-and-trade bill whose costs have made it virtually impossible for an alarmed public to accept the gargantuan expenses of national healthcare reform.

PooPoo Platter wrote:

Considering how most the world loathed US foreign policy under President George W Bush, the voters last November were wise to elect a President who treats other nations with dignity and respect.
Cowboy diplomacy is over, and nobody misses it. We'll be on much better terms with the rest of the world because the previous Administration is gone.

especially bowing over to them while kissing their..........feet.

Eighthman wrote:

Of course the socialists in Europe approve of Obama. Weak, Miserable, Cowardly, Socialists Love Company.

The poll of course does not say who did it, where the samples were taken, age groups, specific amounts in which countries. Weak boys weak.....polls like this can prove men have more babies than women.

if i remember rite... we fought many wars because of the ''european'' idea of thinking...one of which was to rid this place of european thinking and influence...

Eighthman wrote:

I bet they would just LOVE Van Jones to death over there.

Sh*t,I would love Van Jones death HERE..... ha ha ha