re: #295 wheatdogg

Well, good thing it wasn’t him kicking a European football. All hell would break loose.

Yeah, Obama probably won’t be going back to Berlin to make a huge speech in front of cheering crowds of Europeans. Funny thing about that speech: it made him more popular in the rest of the world, but had a different impact here, such is the US’s paradoxical relationship with Europe.

On one hand, many Americans, particularly conservatives, are effusive with their praise of European contributions to culture, religion, etc, sometimes even bleeding into white supremacy. OTOH, many Americans now see the Euros as a bunch of lazy welfare queens who are now insufficiently warlike and have been pussified by liberal values.