Better International Relations? Obama Gets His Own Effigies

[epicSocialism4tw]

This one's kind of funny...he has a big grin on his face.

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slides...e0d477ff216c6/

[cutthemdown]

Which is why Presidents should make every move on what is best for America no matter what. Other countries are far more nationalistic then we are. Our diversity makes us less nationalistic IMO.

[TonyR]

You should take a look at what the polls show. Note that when Obama was elected the approval of our leadership went up significantly. And though it's dropped some it's still well above where Bush left it. So there goes your view of how we're viewed around the world because of Obama. He greatly improved our standing around the world.


http://www.gallup.com/poll/146771/Wo...up%20Headlines

[TonyR]

One of the theories offered in support of Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy was that he could boost America’s image around the world. “What does he offer?” asked Andrew Sullivan, when he was making the case for Obama in 2007. “First and foremost: his face. Think of it as the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan. Such a re-branding is not trivial — it’s central to an effective war strategy.”

Whether it’ll prove an effective war strategy is yet to be seen, but it’s undeniable that Obama was remarkably successful in pulling together international support for an intervention in Libya. The sign-off of the Arab League really was meaningful, even if their support is fragile. And perhaps part of the story of that sign-off can be found over at Gallup.com. They’ve just released the latest data from their polling project that “asks respondents in more than 100 countries each year whether they approve or disapprove of the job performance of the leadership of the United States and the same question about the leadership of six other major countries.” The improvement in global attitudes toward the United States since Obama’s election has been nothing short of remarkable:

In 2007, the world preferred the bureaucrats running the authoritarian Chinese government to the people in charge of the American government. Today, they don’t. In fact, they don’t prefer the leadership of any major power to ours. That’s a pretty effective rebranding.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...usOB_blog.html

[epicSocialism4tw]

Originally Posted by TonyR

You should take a look at what the polls show. Note that when Obama was elected the approval of our leadership went up significantly. And though it's dropped some it's still well above where Bush left it. So there goes your view of how we're viewed around the world because of Obama. He greatly improved our standing around the world.


http://www.gallup.com/poll/146771/Wo...up%20Headlines

Yeah, alot of it is because people like Farakhan and Ghaddafi believed that Obama was muslim and "a son of Africa".