Obama Will Will Help American Image

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Registered: 10-25-2008
Obama Will Will Help American Image
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Tue, 10-28-2008 - 3:39pm

(error in title - Should say Obama "Win" Will Help . . .sorry, couldn't fix)


"If Obama does win, this could also be the moment when the world stops hating America," Vir Sanghvi, an Indian columnist, wrote in the Hindustan Times. "The world will feel engaged by an Obama presidency. By electing Obama they have the chance to earn ... goodwill, to transform their country's image, and to finally stem the rising tide of global anti-Americanism."


Since President Bush took office in 2000, approval of the United States has dropped, along with its soft power -- indirect influence by which the United States can advance its policy goals without the use of force or coercion.


Through wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, plus the ineffable war on terror, America's battle tactics have cut into its moral standing abroad. "


http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6118357&page=1




Edited 10/28/2008 3:48 pm ET by portabella2
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Registered: 10-12-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 3:46pm

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Registered: 10-07-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 3:58pm
Could be those folks see a chance to become more powerful than the US if they got a fella who is all talk and
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Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 4:27pm

Wonderful view you have of the rest of the world.

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 4:45pm
But what can expect from an Obama administration for myself and family?
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Registered: 07-03-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 5:02pm
I honestly think you are over reaching. Desperately trying to convince people to vote for McCain. for who's sake? yours? your conservative friends? did the conservatives give a rip for us the last 8 years, Hell, no. We were argued with, Bush was put up on a pedestal by many conservatives here, he could do no wrong. No, I'm tired of Republicans. Tired of being called a leftist, tired of being told I drink Koolaide(I don't) not even figuratively.
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 5:21pm
I doubt that I would change any votes in this atmosphere.
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 5:34pm

Why the heck do we care what our image is to a bunch of failed Socialist, Communist, and radical Islamic's?


They are all trying to get where we have been, so why do we want to be like them?

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Registered: 08-27-2005
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 6:17pm

Exactly!


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Registered: 09-26-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 7:46pm
LOL - there are no more jobs to get outsourced - all those 250,000k+
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Registered: 10-09-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 8:27pm

So the Europeans, who formed their union to compete with the United States, would like us much better if we elected Obama.


If Coke shareholders had to vote, do you think they would elect a CEO because he would make Pepsi like them better?


Obama would be a big mistake.