AP: Polls Show Worsening of U.S. Reputation

[jefferson_dem]

Of course the tribalist freaks on the right don't care what the world thinks of us anyway. But here's the story.


LONDON - America's reputation around the world is hurting, according to a series of coordinated polls published Friday from 10 countries, including many of the United States' closest allies.


In eight of the countries where the surveys commissioned by major newspapers were conducted, more people said their view of America had worsened in the past two to three years than improved. That question was asked in nine countries.


By big margins, those questioned said the war in Iraq (news - web sites) did not aid the global fight against terrorism.


And in eight out of 10 nations, those polled said — often in landslide proportions — that they hoped to see Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) beat President Bush (news - web sites) in next month's election. Bush won backing from a majority of respondents only in Russia and Israel.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20041015/ap_on_re_eu/views_of_america

[tom_paine]

1. The Free World LOATHES Totalitarians like Imperial Amerika

I remember when we lived in Free America, how I loathed the Totalitarian Nations of the world for what they did to their enslaved & cowed citizenry.

Of course now I AM an enslaved citizen of a Totalitarian Nation, and I am getting to look at the Free World from the outside like a beggar at a window.

hey, at least Totalitarian Tyranny hasn't trickled down to us yet. Unfortunately, simply because I am not yet arrested and sent to a Gulag for speaking out is insufficient for me to pretend that I still am a Citizen of the Free World.

Which I am not. I am a citizen of Imperial Amerika.