The 2008 election shows America veering hard left, shaking off any last remnants of reason and independence. After resisting for 90 years, America has finally going in the direction of the rest of the world.
America has at long last turned its back on the traditions of independence and self-sufficiency that built the nation into the economic powerhouse it has been until now. The rest of the world can now breathe easier, knowing that the greatest nation in the history of mankind will now slip into the same comfortable mediocrity they have always lived in.
Will the rest of the world "like" America any more as a failure? Of course not. America will be either hated or ignored in the world, but will never be respected, and that is a given. But that’s OK; we’re just like you now.