More Reasons to Hate Europe

Senator Barack Obama emerged as Europe's favorite candidate for America's presidency today when a poll conducted for Telegraph.co.uk gave him 52 per cent support across five of the world's richest nations, including Britain. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, received only 15 per cent of the vote in unprecedented survey covering Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia.'

Smells like a Freedom Fries moment, doesn't it? Pretty soon, Gordon Brown will be looking to Naomi Klein to reorganize Britain's failing economy, Silvio Berlusconi will be asking Michael Moore to start a new television news franchise and Nicolas Sarkozy will be consulting with Noam Chomsky over whether he really should be deploying more French troops to Afghanistan. Europe really is cut to stereotype, a perfect mold for the mind of the Matt Drudges of the world.

Maybe, just maybe, there's something to it, that Americans might learn a thing or two from. Italy, for example, is threatening to throw out all of it's gypsies, to god knows where. But Italians would still vote for Obama. Britons are the most spied on people on earth, and even approve of their lack of privacy, yet would still vote for Obama. Could it be that the Europeans have figured out how to have it both ways, and we're too retarded to follow suit?