You guys are under the wrong impression that Obama is measured the same way Bush was when he came to Power. Clinton, at least overseas, was a respected president. The Lewinsky affair actually made him more human and sympathethic over here, unlike in the US where he was kinda demonized. Then came Bush, and sh*t hit the fan. For 8 years he dragged down the american reputation to levels never seen before. By now it is kinda set knowledge that the US is a country willing to accept torture, war mongering and a screwed up justice system where ppl can be kidnapped and hold without trial as a way of life, kinda like the Soviet Union in times of the cold war. Obama to Bush is like Gorbachev to Brezhenev, far away from a a shining leader, bound by a population that in large parts still approve and support the road to become the worlds biggest baddie and see both foreign folks and their own soldiers throw their lives away, but idealistic enough too give some hope to ppl.
As I said, though, I fear, like Gorbachev, he is too idealistic for his own country, which is pretty obvious especially in here where ppl can't let go of the old, convinient ways.
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