US image abroad surges under Obama

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US image abroad surges under Obama
By MATTHEW LEE (AP) – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's popularity has boosted America's image abroad even though deep suspicions about the U.S. persist in the Muslim world, according to a poll released Thursday.

The survey of two dozen nations conducted this spring by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that positive public attitudes toward the United States have surged in many parts of the world since Obama's election.

Positive opinions about the United States have returned to higher levels not seen since before President George W. Bush took office in 2001. The Bush presidency marked a steep decline in U.S. popularity overseas, notably after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, because of a perception that the post-9/11 war on terrorism was targeted at Muslims.

"The image of the United States has improved markedly in most parts of the world, reflecting global confidence in Barack Obama," the center said in its annual Pew Global Attitudes Report.

The only exception was Israel, where attitudes toward the U.S. have dipped since Bush left office.

The improvements "are being driven much more by personal confidence in Obama than by opinions about his specific policies," Pew reported.

At the same time, several specific administration policies drew near universal acclaim, including Obama's pledge to close the Navy-run detention facility for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the U.S. timeline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, the survey found.

The Pew report found that in 21 of the countries surveyed, an average of 71 percent of respondents had at least some confidence in the U.S. president's handling of world affairs. In 2008, when Bush was in the White House, the figure in those same countries was only 17 percent.

The Associated Press: Poll: US image abroad surges under Obama
 
The right showing its traditional class.

It's tough to be on the losing side, I know.
 
Whats the difference ... it was a given when a spineless no balls kiss ass stepped in office.
Everyone hated Bush for the last 8 years so its not like it was a hard task!!
 
The US should do whatever it takes to benefit the US, the rest of the world be damned. Personally I don't give a flying fuck what country likes or dislikes us.
 
The US should do whatever it takes to benefit the US, the rest of the world be damned. Personally I don't give a flying fuck what country likes or dislikes us.

The stupidity of the right on display in a nutshell.

Leadership is based on consensus. We can accomplish nothing without the help of the other 6 BILLION PEOPLE on this planet.

That is why George Bush Sr. succeeded and George Bush Jr. failed. One understood that leadership is getting others to help you with your goals, the other did not.
 
The US should do whatever it takes to benefit the US, the rest of the world be damned. Personally I don't give a flying fuck what country likes or dislikes us.

The stupidity of the right on display in a nutshell.

Leadership is based on consensus. We can accomplish nothing without the help of the other 6 BILLION PEOPLE on this planet.

That is why George Bush Sr. succeeded and George Bush Jr. failed. One understood that leadership is getting others to help you with your goals, the other did not.

Consensus is BS, everyone looks after there own interests. Obama hates America and has no backbone. That is why the rest of the world likes him.
 
No, people like Obama because he is intelligent and know the way the world turns. He knows in order to get things done for America he has to get on with the rest of the world.

We know why right wing Yanks don't give a shit about the rest of the world - that is the template of their life - They are a rock and an island.

If you want isolationism, go live in Greenland....
 
No, people like Obama because he is intelligent and know the way the world turns. He knows in order to get things done for America he has to get on with the rest of the world.

We know why right wing Yanks don't give a shit about the rest of the world - that is the template of their life - They are a rock and an island.

If you want isolationism, go live in Greenland....
Yeah....America is such an "isolationist rock" that we have military troops stationed in more than 100 nations.

Korea, 'Nam, Iraq, numerous other smaller military interventoins like Haiti, Panama, Greanda, Kosovo....

Yeah....Isolationist....:rofl:
 
It may be that the foreign folks like him, but the American investor class doesn't:

Obama Approval 49% Among U.S. Investors, 87% Overseas - Yahoo! News

Obama Approval 49% Among U.S. Investors, 87% Overseas

Heidi Przybyla
Wed Jul 22, 11:06 pm ET

July 23 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama has rock- star appeal among the investing class -- except in his own country.

The Quarterly Bloomberg Global Poll of financial investors and analysts finds attitudes about the new president in Asia and Europe are overwhelmingly positive. In the U.S., by contrast, they are slightly negative.

In Europe and Asia, 87 percent of respondents say they view Obama positively, compared with just 49 percent in the U.S. His standing among American investors is even lower on economic matters: only a quarter of U.S. poll respondents rate his economic policies as “good” or “excellent,” compared with more than half in Europe and Asia.

Obama’s “stratospheric favorability ratings” outside the U.S. after five months in office are related to attitudes about his predecessor, former President George W. Bush, says J. Ann Selzer, the president of Selzer & Co., a Des Moines, Iowa-based polling firm that conducted the survey.

“It speaks as much to the visceral distaste for George Bush outside of the U.S,” she says. In Europe and Asia, more than four of five poll respondents choose Obama over Bush as the president offering better economic leadership. In the U.S., investors pick Bush, 43 percent to 41 percent....
 

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