The world views the teabagmania in US with horror and pity

[BurtWorm]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/the-global-view-of-the-tea-party/

The Global View of the Tea Party
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

The midterm elections are at a fever pitch, and the loud rhetoric – especially from Tea Party candidates — is reaching across the globe.

In an interesting review of foreign news sources, Foreign Policy Magazine documents some of the conclusions that are being drawn about America from an arms-length view of the clash of political campaigns.

The French view the Tea Party as “conspiracy theorists, reactionaries, and anti-elitists.” The Spanish express wonderment, saying in one article that “We don’t know if we feel more profound horror or more profound pity.” The Germans characterize the rise of the Tea Party as a “fear of American decline.”

And in China, the conclusion drawn from the contentious U.S. election is that “US policymakers face economic and national security crises they cannot solve.”

The article is titled “The Horror, The Horror … and the Pity.” Check it out.


And on the other side, the psychobaggers' view of the world:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. see? there is sanity in the world.

so many of us feel the same way.

[Vincardog]

2. “US policymakers face economic and national security crises they " created and refuse to face

[DBoon]

3. The day will come when foreign visitors to the US

will be horrified by the poverty, brutality, and ignorance, and realize that what was once the wealthiest, more powerful, and in many ways the freest country in the world has become a 3rd world nation

[Drale]

4. If the tea baggers ever get real power

I think thats it, we will almost certainly be inviting an invasion.