theprof00 said:
Which is why Obama is sucha greta overlooked choice. Obama's greatest accomplishment was getting the world to respect us once again. NOBODY likes a dictatorial potus except ourselves. Oh jfk was such a hero!!! jism. Sure. He was. I agree. But we let it get to our heads and now we bully because everyone has to have their jfk moment. We earn the world's respect by doing what they're incapable of, not by pretending to be something they're much better at. |
If you define "the world" as continental western European nations. Sure. France and Germany like us alot more, especially after doing all their heavy lifting in libya. Everywhere else though...? Not really... he appeased the middle east for about... a half a year, and now they're as pissed at us as ever, with good reason considering we're sending drones into nations without permission and killing a lot of innocents in the collateral damage. Egypt freaking hates us because the secularists think we basically rigged their elections for the Muslim Brotherhood. Which, while we didn't we did apparently offer then political training that we didn't offer various secularist candidates. Africa has in general been disappointed by Obama, he's rolled back a lot of Bush commitments. The only positive I can think of that wasn't part of already promised bush support, was the expansion of the Kony Search. Asia, don't think there has been much change there. American-Chinese relations seem slightly worse. Russia? Better relations then if Bush was there, but I don't think the relations have actually improved, due to russia's regression politically.