Fixing Uncle Sam’s Image Problem

We've already taken the first steps in the eyes of the world to changing our image by electing Barrack Obama. That fact alone has restored a tiny bit of the respectability that the Bush administration has all but destroyed. Now it's up to the Obama administration to do the rest and try to salvage through the rubble of our economic devastation and military blunders to restore the propriety that our nation once stood for. I don???t envy the task that this man has ahead of him, but unlike the psychic prophets posting here who are predicting doom and gloom in the next four years, my crystal ball predicts a rosier future from a wiser and more levelheaded leader then the one who will be exiting the White House come January 20 in disgrace and ignominy.

Typical article from a far left-wing, secular-progressive, anti-American publication. If you don't like this country leave for Cuba or France If you can't speak English you should be deported.

Three words: one world government. We're all in this together as the HUMAN RACE, therefore we should all work together for the common good. The one issue that will solve most all issues facing this world is population controls. We need to have proliferation restrictions worldwide before we're staring at twelve billion mouths to feed by the year 2050.

It might help when our hyper-partisan liberal media stop smearing America in the interests of destroying the President.

The US acted unilaterally because no other country seemed to be doing anything significant.

George Bush had and has the courage to do the right thing regardless of public opinion. Iraq is now a democracy, the 1st of the Arab countries. That is a good thing.

The only way Mr. Obama can make the Muslims like us is if he makes concessions that are not in the US's best interests. I don't think he has the political courage to do the right thing.

The American media tells us that Osama was cast out. Then again, they told us that Arabs attacked the federal building at Oklahoma City.

Our media lies.

One of the best ways to fix repair our image to condemn our soldiers for the atrocities they committed in Iraq.
Freeze military spending and leave them to their own devices if they wish to return to the U.S.

Why should I pay their PTSD problem? I had enough sense than to sign up for the military.

I think the way the rest of the world feels about the United States is kind of summed up in W.R. Inge's famous quote: "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."

In many ways, the US looks like "the wolf" these days.... actually maybe worse, maybe a wounded wolf. My opinion though is that focusing on "our image" is the wrong route. Our image isn't the issue, but is rather a logical consequence of some bigger issues. US military spending equals the sum of the next 15 countries combined. That's seriously screwed up folks, and it breeds resentment. We need to start asking ourselves: why? This is all within our control, but we seem not to have the will to deal with it... or rather, we say "it's something for Congress to deal with"... Congress will serve itself in the absence of any influence from the outside, as it has proven over and over again.

Why not pass legislation that limits military spending to equal say just the top 5 other countries? Eisenhower was right when he warned us of the emerging power of the military industrial complex. We're out of control, and we've declared anyone who disagrees a coward. The resolution starts with a recognition at home that military spending is out of control, and that no amount of money guarantees safety. The out of control military spending is what allows our President to pursue questionable policies like force feeding democracy to the Middle East.

If we start there, with modest, but reasonable cuts to military spending, I think "our image problem" will begin to solve itself. I'm sure some neo-con will declare me a coward, but war mongering does not equal patriotism, and in the final analysis failure to stem this tide might end up bankrupting this country... sort of like the USSR 20 years ago.

I'm of the frame of mind, that the HOLY OBONZO will go back to kissing @$$ and asking other sh1th3ads for permission to protect the American people. Yeah - that will go a long way to helping the American image. Most of those countries who hate us, will continue to hate us because of the fundamental differences in our societies, our beliefs, and our ideals. Our country is great because of many reasons, and many people hate us out of jealousy. Bush has always derided and looked down at the UN because of its corruption, and uselessness. Now that the HOLY OBONZO will go back to groveling and begging for permission to defend ourselves, like Oliver asking for more food, our image will go way up! Bush NEVER asked for anyones "permission" to kill our enemies.

I guess you'll be sporting a hammer and sickle tattoo to compliment the cross around your neck, eh, Liberty? Might as well, because your Savior IS a Communist.

The way to regain America's FULL GLOBAL RESPECT is to show strength again, lead the world again, boot the U.N. off its shores, destroy Iran with nuclear technology instead of a protracted war, aid Israel in the immediate destruction of Hamas, cease all aid to the Palestinians, build major US-owned and staffed military bases in Iraq and in the Persian Gulf, begin drilling in Alaska and off-shore where the American greenies have blocked before, close the porous borders, eliminate all corporate welfare, eliminate all religious faith-based initiatives welfare, eliminate all social welfare, return all domestic weapons-related gun laws to their far safer 1910 status, stop all farm subsidies, reduce the income tax to 9% universal for all brackets without exception or breaks of any kind, eliminate all other taxes in existence, eliminate the EPA, eliminate the Energy Department, separate the F from the FDA to allow for proper checks and balances instead of letting them create their own customers, cut all ties to the Federal Reserve, eliminate all regulatory agencies, cease all outdated Indian assistance programs (which means all of them), erase all hate-crimes laws from the books (murder and battery are equally bad no matter who is being attacked, stop pandering to and giving false pity to minorities), and institute a true death penalty for convicted murderers and rapists and kidnappers and arsonists (to reduce those crimes by factors of hundreds of percentage points).