Note to European liberals – no one in America gives a damn what you think about the US election

Telegraph - UK ^ | October 25, 2012 | Ed West

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.......... [S]upport for Obama has more to do with European distaste for Middle America, characterised by “angry” Tea Party activists, guns, racism, climate-change denial and creationism. (We all like a laugh at creationists, but the main difference between the sort of unscientific beliefs espoused by religious Republicans and the secular bunkum believed by the Democrats is that you can get fired for questioning the latter’s PC doctrines.)

It’s this arrogance and snobbery that drives European thinking about the US. A case in point is the Guardian’s unwittingly comic 2004 Operation Clark County, where they got various yellow-teethed Brits to condescendingly tell our colonial cousins how parochial and frightful they all were.

Obama represents opposition to this Jesusland version of the US, and, according to the media narrative, is representative of another sort of America, as well as the country’s journey from slavery to equality (something I guess has little resonance with the Chinese). Europeans like Obama because of how he makes them feel about themselves; by contrast, for many Americans he seems like something of an empty shell, weak, bored, condescending and driving the country further into debt.

Luckily for them it’s up to Americans to decide the next election, and the views of Europe’s liberal opinion-formers don’t amount to a hill of beans. I just hope that, come the early hours of November 7, the BBC has plenty of counselors on standby.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Sarcasm is lost in translation, however.

[rightwingcrazy]

One of these European countries should grant him citizenship and vote him in as Prime Minister. France, maybe. They love him that much, don’t they?

[ex-Texan]

Our Comgress has sold us out just like King Zero has sold us out. Our govermnet s totally corrupt. Obama has signed 900 Executive Orders. All of them probably violate our Consitution. And we as vpters are all illrevent and no longer have a word to say about our own government.

Nigel Farage: "We are Headed for One World Government

[Leep]

Piss off Europe!

[Nebr FAL owner]

The Europeans don’t understand that America’s forefathers left that sorry continent while the getting was good . In the last century Europe has given the world the two World Wars the ideologies of socialism ,communism, fascism, Nazism,Stalinism,the final Solution to the Jewish Question , the liquidation of the Kulaks & the Europeans can’t figure out why we try to go our own way instead of following their lead.

[ex-Texan]

Nigel Farage is the only politician talking against EU's or the US' highly corrupt financial shenanigans:

Nigel Farage - 'Bailouts' are a means for total subjugation to EU control - Oct 2012