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On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:28:04 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:29:33 -0700, jps wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:12:10 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:03:22 -0700, jps wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:39:13 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:45:02 -0700, jps wrote:

Stunning reversal from Neanderthal Bush:

A major new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that there have
been moderate signs of improvement in the attitudes of predominantly
Muslim countries toward the United States since the election of
President Barack Obama.

Still, for the most part, the study's authors conclude that, "The
opinions among Muslims in the Middle East remain largely unfavorable."
Among the 25 countries, in which public opinions were surveyed, only
one exhibited a less favorable opinion of the United States: Israel.

Conducted in Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, Egypt, France,
Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Kenya,
Mexico, Nigeria, the Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Poland,
Russia, Spain, South Korea, Turkey and the United States, the survey
has a whole host of interesting data points.

The headlines include:

The United States' approval ratings in Western Europe have risen to
pre-Bush levels.

In Western countries -- England, France, Germany and Spain -- it is a
nearly universally held belief that President Obama will "do the right
thing in world affairs." Whereas only 16 percent, 13 percent, 14
percent and 8 percent of those respective countries' populations said
the same thing about former President George W. Bush in 2008.

The favorability ratings of the United States, the study concludes,
are "driven much more by personal confidence in Obama than by his
specific policies."

The United States' image in Israel took a hit following President
Obama's foreign policy address in Cairo, according to the survey.
America's 76 percent favorability rating in the Jewish state fell to
63 percent following the president's speech, when he called for dual
sacrifice and responsibility in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Moreover, while 60 percent of Israelis said they were confident in
Obama's leadership before the Cairo speech, just 49 percent were
confident after the address.

On the flipside, the number of Palestinians who said that Obama would
consider their interests when making policy rose from 27 percent
before the speech to 39 percent after.

Finally, in what is at once a remarkable and depressing statistic, for
the first time in the Pew survey, an American president is more
popular than Osama bin Laden in most Muslim nations. In Jordan, for
example, 30 percent of the populace says they are confident in Obama,
28 percent say they are confident in bin Laden. Just 7 percent of
Jordanians said they were confident in Bush in 2008.

That said, the world's-most-wanted terrorist does enjoy higher
confidence ratings than Obama in Pakistan (18 percent to 13 percent)
and the Palestinian territories (52 percent to 22 percent).

Now there's an endorsement Obama can add to his list of accolades!
Give the bullies your lunch money, and they'll love you for it. What
a leader!

You have the current leader mixed up with the former. Bush was the
one who shipped pallets of $100 bills to pay off the bullies and those
whose families we killed by accident or on purpose.

There are those who are unable to figure out the figurative, and there
are those who see misinformation as a means to an end. Figuratively
speaking, if the cheese that attracts the mouse is poisoned, the mouse
is poisoned too. Perhaps this won't be too difficult to figure.

Thanks, but I'm citing a first hand account from my nephew.

It doesn't require red-herring analogies of mice and cheese.

The deflection is all yours, my friend. You brought the former
president into the conversation. No one else did. And if tropes are
difficult to discern, it would be best to avoid trying to put your
finger on informal fallacies.

Then please tell us to whom Obama is handing his lunch money.

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