Well, whaddya know? What happened to all of the hope and change? What happened to “smart” diplomacy? According to Obama and liberals across America, electing Obama would undo all the damage to our reputation that Bush supposedly did. Only, in reality, the United States is less respected under Obama than it was under Bush. Shockah!
A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security, a new poll finds.
The Democracy Corps-Third Way survey released Monday finds that by a 10-point margin — 51 percent to 41 percent — Americans think the standing of the U.S. dropped during the first 13 months of Mr. Obama’s presidency.
“This is surprising, given the global acclaim and Nobel peace prize that flowed to the new president after he took office,” said pollsters for the liberal-leaning organizations.
Gee, you might even think that he didn’t deserve the acclaim and the awards.
Maybe the fact that Obama has yet to forge one strong relationship with a major world leader has helped further destroy our credibility around the world. Now, granted, this is a poll of Americans, not foreigners. So I guess we technically can’t put too much stock into this. But Americans aren’t feeling more secure in our place in the world, and we’re the ones who are supposed to be benefiting from all the hopey-changey-ness anyways, right?
Cross-posted at Stop the ACLU.
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In this case, I don’t care if the world respects us more or less. Countries hate us no matter who we have in power, and no matter what we do anyway.
On the other hand, it is a good point to show the libs, oblivious to all these facts, how wrong they were to blame Bush for countries having beefs with us. (And I am no fan of Bush or the war personally, coming from a more trad conservative view, not liberal view). So your article hits home and nail the liberals to the wall there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Funny how it took them this long to realize something that most of us knew would happen from the beginning.
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Um… you do realize that you’re looking at a poll of what Americans think the rest of the world believes, right?
And that’s not the same thing as how the rest of the world actually views the President, right?