the US should change its policies because its policies put America last and global corporations first.

It is politically disadvantageous for the US to work among foreign states that oppose it.

However, it would seem both in the best interests of US foreign relations and US interests in general for the US to cease supporting the rest of the world with free trade, subsidies, and foreign bases.

America should defend its border, defend its industries, and defend its people.

Wrong, flat out wrong.

The world doesn’t dislike the US. Larison has no evidence for this.

Third World losers hate the US – there’s plenty of evidence for that. They hate the US because the US is the dominant power.

Tough.

As for the US changing its policies because a bunch of third world losers hate us, fuck that.

If you think about it, Bush has been a blessing for the conservative movement in many ways. 10 years ago, the fault lines within conservatism were much less clearly defined than they are now. We don’t know that a McCain presidency wouldn’t actually do more to re-invigorate a real conservative movement than an Obama presidency would. We also don’t know that an Obama presidency wouldn’t just paper over disagreements on the Right, creating a false unity and preventing the development of a coherent philosophy.

The only thing we do know with much certainty is that Obama would be a very, very bad president, and considerably worse than McCain.

Because without a speedy termination of the current charade there will be an ever diminishing chance of a healthy rebirth. A genuine crisis, not a stage-managed media event, would alert people to the fact that the good times are over and they should see to their own welfare. Putting an over-hyped, hard-left, neophyte such as Obama into office increases the chance of uncontrolled happenings and perhaps moves events off the path the current script dictates.

My analogy would be different. The cancer is terminal, but the end is a long way off. Why speed up the process with risky, obtrusive, painful treatments that are likely to just result in a quicker death?

We must make ourselves ill in order to kill the cancerous growth inside us that is the neocons.

And Actually, I like Europeans coming over to the US as much as possible. The are naive, but they are still European.

Who would you rather have who come over?

I know I will be labeled as a right-wing gun-toten lunatic. But, I will never vote for a man would lead us into a life of submission.

Of course only so much incompetence can be forgiven, and Obama may manage to undo any improvements in the relationship through incompetence. After all, Carter managed to make the Europeans dislike him.

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/5076.html

But for at least for a year or so after Obama’s election, you can expect lots of warm feelings, a rise in European travel to U.S., and a rash of articles by Europeans describing America’s growing maturity and its break from its sordid, war-mongering, racist Republican past.

The last is reason enough to oppose him.