The US have escaped the messy fate that European countries have sunk into : socialism. Kerry was the last mishap. I suppose people begin to understand why Hillary Clinton as the opponent the democrats need represents the past.
France and Germany are unable to face the New World Order, were everybody should be competitive and use all the means to win competition. They are unable because they chose the wrong system. It seems that their choice to be different to what is logically better is a principle that both of those countries are trying promote especially for the rest of the European Union. The results are blatant, but those countries refuse to admit them. France doesn't compare to anything it was even 25 years ago. It doesn't even count in Europe anymore, where no country listens to the French politicians and the French administration anymore. In fact France has more credit at the UNO than at the European Community Council. Germany, now that it is that big Germany they all dreamt of is in no sense that same sharp and skilled Western Germany. It is more like all Germany has become Eastern Germany by heart, somehow without Bavaria that would better suit to Austria today.

One fact is that GW Bush has engaged the US not only into economic recovery, but also human. Civilized countries are not only declining because they loose competition but because their people have loose morals and they also loose fate. This is all about children and good education. Those principles cannot be taught, learned and appreciated if one hasn't all the responsibility of ruling his own life by his own choices whether good or not. The US is just at the beginning of the recovery. In Europe, the end of the decay is just accelerating. The European as we have known them, the people and their culture, will be history in a couple of decades.

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From SR