Europe: The Obama Bounce (DER SPIEGEL)

[Call Me Wesley]

Survey Shows Huge Leap in European Support for US Foreign Policy



By Gregor Peter Schmitz (DER SPIEGEL 09/09/09)

US President Barack Obama has made America much more popular with Europeans, a new study shows. According to the survey, 77 percent of Europeans have a positive view of Obama's handling of international affairs, compared to just 19 percent who supported George W. Bush's foreign policy.

Six months after Barack Obama, European support for the new US president is still high, according to the new Transatlantic Trends survey. The survey, which was published Wednesday, says that 92 percent of Germans have a positive view of Obama's handling of foreign affairs, and that similar figures can be found in Italy (91 percent), the Netherlands (90 percent), Portugal (90 percent) and France (88 percent).

In comparison, last year's survey found that only 19 percent of Europeans had a positive view of then-President George W. Bush's handling of foreign affairs. Likewise, the survey also found that the number of people who believed that the trans-Atlantic partnership had improved since Obama became president doubled in Europe (to 41 percent) and tripled in the US (to 31 percent).

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[stellanoir]

1. Good on the Euro's.

They generally tend to have a much more astute comprehension of sophisticated eloquence and complexity than those here who are sadly programed solely by the forces of fear, and "oligarchical hypnogoguery."

The wingnutz are seemingly completely incapable of critical thinking, and are not governed by anything other than a superfically reactive herd mentality.

Pity the poor sheeple.

May they become more enlightened very soon.

[Call Me Wesley]

3. Too bad none of them lived here the last eight years.

Since they would have to had to think about themselves critically - or at least about why almost no one liked them. Of course, they would've blamed others of just not seeing the truth, going on with their isolated lives and isolated minds. At least they would get immediately arrested if they show up with a gun on a political discussion.

[CKennedy16]

2. Too bad those stats aren't true in the USA

What the hell is wrong with AMERICANS???

[Call Me Wesley]

4. Eight years of fear-mongering?

A wide-spread media that gives Townhall shouters more close-up time than the actual debate itself? And, somewhere in the distance, a Cheney still chuckling? I dunno

Welcome to DU!

[Kaleko]

5. Over 50 years of Psy Ops by the CIA.

These quotes illustrate it perfectly.


"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."

~ William Colby, CIA Director from Sept. 1973 to Jan. 1976 under Presidents Nixon and Ford.
Colby was replaced by future President George H.W. Bush on January 30, 1976.
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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

~ William Casey, CIA Director from 1981 to 1987.

(Quote from internal staff meeting notes 1981)

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