2012 U.S. Election Result: GOOD for the rest of the world, but BAD for America?

[Mr Pee]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100188122/under-barack-obama-the-us-superpower-faces-four-more-years-of-decline/

[Flosshilde]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ni...rs-of-decline/

"Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, and Fox Business Network.."

So you can see where he's coming from.

[amateur51]

Of course they are.....



And of course it will......nothing that goes wrong can ever be Obama's fault, can it? Just blame those nasty Republicans.

Do you follow American politics from the Pee-bunker, I wonder?

"During Obama's first term, Republicans successfully blocked attempts at comprehensive immigration reform and filibustered the DREAM Act"

But ...

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/post-shellacking-republicans-begin-shift-immigration

[Nick Armstrong]

I don't know many Americans, but we all know the US is fairly evenly split between Republican and Democrat.

I suspect much depends on whether the Americans one knows are from the east or west coasts, or whether (*glances at scotty's avatar pic*) your friends are from the hinterland / backwoods...

[mangerton]

I suspect much depends on whether the Americans one knows are from the east or west coasts, or whether (*glances at scotty's avatar pic*) your friends are from the hinterland / backwoods...

Quite. Other factors to consider might be north/south, and the degree of redness of the neck.

(I always thought scotty's handsome avatar was actually a self portrait.)