I'm with you Joe in the US. It'd be devastating to see off bozo only to be met with Punch.

And I'm with DavidJS.

You could fit all of Australia's reflexive anti-Americanists into the same community hall that contains a Socialist Alternative meeting.

"Anti-American" has been used for the last 8 years as a cheap smear of critics of the disastrous Bush administration. By that standard, the vast majority of Americans are now anti-American. Where's Joe McCarthy when you need him?

RW523252 it takes more than one to Tango.

Some selective listening going on here. During the primaries Hilary and Obama were both quoting Reagan (yes - in a respectful way).

So your rich Uncle tries to help you out and even though his intentions are good things go awry. He then loans you money and provides some very flexible terms to pay it back. You struggle to pay off the debt and find it extremely difficult to do so. The result - you begin to dislike the rich Uncle.

Don't be surprised that within 10 months of Obama being elected there will be a very complex and nasty foreign policy emergency for him to deal with. There will be a test, simply to test him out if for no other reason.

As per fiscal responsibility - Clinton's administration took Fannie and Freddie to Fed Court. Claimed discrimination and won. Result F & F were ordered to loan money to people who could not pay it back. The Dems bragged about increased % of home ownership. McCain sponsored legislation to prevent what has happened - Obama et al voted against it. FACT.

Quote -- Big Media have kept the American public blind to the truth about Obama, including...

The fact that a corrupt Chicago Machine politician "made a U.S. senator" out of Barack Obama

How Barack Obama won his first election by having his lawyers knock all his opponents off the ballot on technicalities

Obama's support for a grotesque "infanticide" law that was too extreme even for Nancy Pelosi

The Tony Rezko connection: "I've never done any favors for him," says Obama about convicted developer Tony Rezko. Oh, but he has...

By T Winter, Human Events

perhaps anti-americanism is merely the result of one time fans becoming aware of america's true character, rather than the bowlderized 'john wayne' story.

iraq and dubya are not a new thing, not atypical, quite the contrary- america has been using military 'persuasion' on it's neighbors from day1.

mexico and the central american nations were visited regularly by the marine corp, acting as the enforcement arm of american arrogance. the phillipines resisted american invasion, 100,000 gave their lives in the resistance. the invasion of vietnam under pretext of attack by viet motorboats on the american fleet is now known to be the 'wmd' of the time.

once you catch on to the reality that all of america's history has been a story of aggression, anti-americanism becomes easy to understand. remaining a fan, now, that's hard to understand.

Demos is close to the money on U.S.A. history. There is nothing new about US gratuitous interference in the affairs of others.

Senator Fullbright recognized it, and was sufficiently concerned to write a book on the subject. First published in 1966, the preface by Fullbright commented “—the book is much less a criticism of the past than it is an expression of genuine concern about the future. It is not a denunciation of yesterday as much as it is a prescription of hope for tomorrow.”

Overall, it has been pretty much business as usual since 1966.
Unfortunately there is little prospect that great changes will occur with this year’s incoming administration; but, like Fulbright, let’s hope for improvement.

As to its effect on Australia – we would accumulate more respect in world affairs if we were to abandon the role of being America’s yes-man for every distasteful adventure; and be an honest friend, speaking up when mistakes are being made – not encourage them no matter how unconscionable.