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    Only Americans understand America...

    ... and half of them don't.

    As President Obama and Mitt Romney prepare for a Monday debate on foreign policy and polls show the Republican challenger with a real chance of victory in two weeks, many observers abroad are saying: Wait, what?

    From Europe to China to the Middle East, perceptions of the contest have lagged behind indications that the two men are in a virtual dead heat. Obama remains widely popular abroad, and there are signs that many leaders are unprepared for a Romney presidency.


    In Western Europe, few people can imagine Romney in office.

    From the Scottish Highlands to the heel of Italy, it’s Obama country all the way. One survey last month from the German Marshall Fund found Europeans breaking 75 percent for Obama and 8 percent for Romney. Even conservative leaders have maneuvered themselves to appear closer to the U.S. president, reasoning that they can get their own electoral bump from doing so, although popular enthusiasm for Obama has diminished after a public frenzy in 2008.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...rc=nl_politics
    American conservatives live on another planet entirely their own.
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    Didn't we use to test our nuclear weapons on your island?

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    Quote Originally Posted by keymanjim View Post
    Didn't we use to test our nuclear weapons on your island?

    You missed.

    But this attitude is part of why Americans are foreign to everyone else who inhabits this planet.

    Americans have a touching, and touched, belief in what they like to call their "exceptionalism" ... bred of their willfully complete ignorance of just about everyone else.

    It haunts them that they have woken up to find, for example, there are 1.3 billion Chinese here too.
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    Foreign dogs certainly don't, so stop pretending... Go back to your sheep, that's about your speed...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dispondent View Post
    Foreign dogs certainly don't, so stop pretending... Go back to your sheep, that's about your speed...
    At least we can baaaaa..rk.

    You guys are overwhelmed by your own self-importance.

    The result?

    You can get nothing done. You are as inert as clay. But you think that is a value worth exporting.

    There are no buyers anywhere else on this planet except in your own backyard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
    You missed.

    But this attitude is part of why Americans are foreign to everyone else who inhabits this planet.

    Americans have a touching, and touched, belief in what they like to call their "exceptionalism" ... bred of their willfully complete ignorance of just about everyone else.

    It haunts them that they have woken up to find, for example, there are 1.3 billion Chinese here too.
    I will gladly send the 20,000,000 people that reside in my country illegally to yours so that you can tend to their needs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by keymanjim View Post
    I will gladly send the 20,000,000 people that reside in my country illegally to yours so that you can tend to their needs.

    Recent immigrants, especially illegal ones, probably have the good sense to vote for Obama.

    So I understand why you would want to do that.

    But I am sorry. We are closed. Especially to Americans.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
    At least we can baaaaa..rk.

    You guys are overwhelmed by your own self-importance.

    The result?

    You can get nothing done. You are as inert as clay. But you think that is a value worth exporting.

    There are no buyers anywhere else on this planet except in your own backyard.
    It not our self importance, its simply the fact most of the rest of the world sucks, and rely on us for so many things...

    We get little done with losers in office, like Obama, but we still have helped the world more in our history than any country on Earth...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dispondent View Post
    It not our self importance, its simply the fact most of the rest of the world sucks, and rely on us for so many things...

    We get little done with losers in office, like Obama, but we still have helped the world more in our history than any country on Earth...

    You are regarded world-wide as simple idiots.

    And what you have just said confirms it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
    You are regarded world-wide as simple idiots.

    And what you have just said confirms it.
    Yet everyone wants our market to sell in, and our help when the $#@! hits the fan... Sure thing... Regard us as you will, when we tire of it, the consequences won't be nice...

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