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"I was surprised (although I really shouldn't be) that there was no economic number given to the international embarrassment that he has caused. I know good will is hard to assign a value to but it will cost us dearly in the short/long term. The GITMO fiasco and the Patriot act are both embarrassments economically and politically"
On the matter of the outside world losing its affection and respect for America I offer this. The bitter irony is that the low information warmongering rightists wouldn't give a shit, but the good Americans would. This song lamenting the state that America has fallen into was a huge, long lasting, much played hit in Europe a couple of summers ago. For those of you who are "Good Americans" my apologies for providing a link to a song that were I also an American would make me blush with shame to roots of my very being.
Sample lyric: "You took advantage of a world that loved you well"Going to a Town, Rufus Wainright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUIsQo4K70Y
