So, What's So Bad About America?

I've been reading around, trying to pry myself out of my Holiday blogging stupor. Garry Kasparov has been arrested during protests in Russia.

Howard was beaten in Australia by a guy who claims to be a fiscal conservative and much like Howard, only newer.

Bush-buddy, Sarkozy seems to have broken a major, national strike and is looking to push back a bit at least a little against the socialists in France.

In Lebanon, well, who the hell ever knows what's next, which is increasingly true of Pakistan - though, longer-term, I remain optimistic for both countries.

Meanwhile, after seven years of Bush, Americans are shopping, or watching for sales figures from Black Friday, mostly hoping to get through Thanksgiving leftovers, sooner, as opposed to later and wondering which NFL games are on this weekend after gorging themselves on a national Holiday, while progress in Iraq continues.

And we're worried about what the world thinks of us? Yeah ... right.

Comments

[Fred Beloit]

Dan doesn't seem to want to buy into the Bush has wrecked the U.S. and its stellar reputation, which was once so perfect back when...when...when it was a three-network, wrecker of paper, kind of place. Walter Cronkite gave the one correct side of every story. The funny thing is that one side was not the reflected image of a perfect country that solved conflicts by negotiations.

Everything was wrong then too, according to the media, everything except Camelot of course. The main difference between then and now I can recall is that nobody here looked to Europe to decide what was right and good in every area of life. After all it was not too long before that we had helped continental Europe save itself from itself in WWII, helped save the Koreans from themselves (very unpopularly and at great cost in lives and dollars), and we supplied a third of Germany by prop-driven airlift during a Soviet blockade. Ah, the good old days.