The recurring theme of the Democrat debate (other than choppering out of Iraq) was restoring America's image around the world. Such a thing has been repeated so many times it's now almost becoming a conventional wisdom. But on casual inspection it's rather curious.
Do they mean our image when Bill Clinton was President? Let's see, well, he was caught having phone sex and oral sex with an intern young enough to be his daughter. Apparently some of their nonsexual sex activities occurred on the Oval Office seal and while talking to foreign heads of state. There were repeated terror attacks, including one on America. Are those the days?
Maybe they mean during President Bush 41. Let's see, Saddam Hussein tried to kill him in 1993 and later had a marble inlay of his likeness plastered into the floor of the lobby of the al-Rashid hotel so guests would have to step on his face. Those days?
Or how about Reagan. Missiles. Europe. Warmongering. Self-explanatory.
You'd think such a terrible image could be seen reflected in the governments of countries around the world that are fed up with Bush's cowboyism. You'd think a new wave of safe socialism would have broken out like in Spain after the AQ attack. Let's see, Canada elected a conservative leader followed by Germany then France.
There have been freedom rallies in numerous countries and even now protesters rage in the streets in Venezuela over the fact their leader is crushing dissent, one who called Bush the Devil. Yet Bush has done very little crushing of dissent anywhere, not even through his secret wiretap program.
What am I missing?
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