Obama’s belief that the Japanese get 45mpg stems from a broader mindset: everything foreign is better than anything American. It follows logically from this that Americans should set their policies so as to please and kowtow to foreigners. Liberals in general have this mentality, but Obama suffers from an especially severe dose. After all, when asked what he would do if Al Quaeda nuked two US cities, he said he would call our allies and promise not to overreact. A first class jerk.