As I said, my story was anecdotal. So are yours. Here's some data. Note the disparity between views of America and views of Americans. This was taken in 2006, when Iraq looked at its worst.
You're right that it's not that the American people are stupid for electing someone who is a warmonger and sucks, but that the guy is just convincing.
If the American people re-elect the sucking warmonger, though, you can see how that might be taken as national approval of that set of policies. I don't think it's the 2000 election that set people overseas off as much as the 2004 one.
Edit: I don't need to. If I used comments to threads on news sites as a judge of people's character, I'd assume every person in the world was a total asshole. Pretty much every article on U.S. websites has a bunch of ignorant comments to them.
"If Skippy the Retarded Goat won a majority of votes out of 130 million cast, you'd have a pretty good sign that a lot of the voters in that country are stupid. You couldn't call it the action of a small group of people."
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"You're right that it's not that the American people are stupid for electing someone who is a warmonger and sucks, but that the guy is just convincing."Isn't that what we just did? So Obama's not a warmonger and that makes it an entirely different situation? He's a good talker. That's about it so far. Wait until he gets the security clearance of Commander in Chief. That's going to be an interesting transformation; it always is
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Since we've just proven to the world we don't know the difference between a vision and a plan, I'm pretty sure the Idiot Ship sailed last night, but point taken.
The don't re-elect fuck-ups thing would be a new trend for us. One can hope. :)
Went to your link and it means absolutely nothing. I don't believe polls of that nature can ever be accurate, especailly in countries that are supposed to be on favorable terms with America.
People lie all the time and it takes a special kind of person to come right out and say that they hate another person/people they have never met for really no reason at all. Anonymity gives little comfort, because ther is always a chance someone out there will find out you are an intollerant jerk off.
WThere comes a time when anecdotal evidence stops being anecdotal and becomes a statistic.
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http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?PageID=825
You're right that it's not that the American people are stupid for electing someone who is a warmonger and sucks, but that the guy is just convincing.
If the American people re-elect the sucking warmonger, though, you can see how that might be taken as national approval of that set of policies. I don't think it's the 2000 election that set people overseas off as much as the 2004 one.
Edit: I don't need to. If I used comments to threads on news sites as a judge of people's character, I'd assume every person in the world was a total asshole. Pretty much every article on U.S. websites has a bunch of ignorant comments to them.
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You couldn't call it the action of a small group of people."
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"You're right that it's not that the American people are stupid for electing someone who is a warmonger and sucks, but that the guy is just convincing."Isn't that what we just did? So Obama's not a warmonger and that makes it an entirely different situation? He's a good talker. That's about it so far. Wait until he gets the security clearance of Commander in Chief. That's going to be an interesting transformation; it always is ( ... )
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If Obama fucks up, I hope we toss him out in humiliation in 2012. If he fucks up and we re-elect him, then we're idiots.
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The don't re-elect fuck-ups thing would be a new trend for us. One can hope. :)
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People lie all the time and it takes a special kind of person to come right out and say that they hate another person/people they have never met for really no reason at all. Anonymity gives little comfort, because ther is always a chance someone out there will find out you are an intollerant jerk off.
WThere comes a time when anecdotal evidence stops being anecdotal and becomes a statistic.
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