How the World Sees Us

Pick a country, any country. Now ask yourself, how do I feel about the leader of that
country?. I probably have no idea who it even is. Now why would anyone think that who is US president might be of interest to the average citizen of the country you originally picked? Some Sherpa milking his goat is asking himself, “I wonder what is up with don’t ask don’t tell?” But we are told repeatedly how Obama was going to repair our World Image. But that presupposes we have an image problem in need of repair.
But here’s how the US was viewed by the rest of the world for the last 50 years: (with Eastern Euro accent) “Oh! America! Bang Bang! Cowboy! Betty Grable nice gams!” That’s how it was from Woodrow Wilson right on up through Kennedy, and Reagan, and right up to Clinton. Then it became “Oh!! America! Bang Bang! Blow jobs! Monica Lewinski gives head!”
Thank God GW Bush came along so we could get back to “Oh! America! Bang Bang! Cowboy! Betty Grable nice gams!”
But now we have Obama in office and suddenly the world is saying ( in Oxford accent) “Ah, well, you see, Obama has been at the forefront of the global movement to a green economy, and he hates Israel, to boot!” You’re putting me on, right?
What that guy is really thinking is every four to eight years, those bastards change sides over here. “How can I love the US when this week they give Bin Laden stinger missle, next week they try to kill him with bigger bomb?” So, yeah, when I hear about Obama improving our international image, I have to giggle…