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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-24-09 06:01 PM
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His celebrity is not enough to reverse an erosion of our global dominance
Is Obama's star dimming as U.S. stock drops?
His celebrity is not enough to reverse an erosion of our global dominance

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34128987/ns/politics-white_house

I’m not sure the rest of the world sees the White House as “the place to be” any more. And that will have unsettling consequences for all of us.

Obama’s role as the elegant, path-breaking, intercultural celebrity is not enough to reverse a steady erosion of our global dominance — especially not if he’s seen merely as a new hood ornament on an economic clunker.

My concern is merely anecdotal. But I have been collecting anecdotal evidence for decades. It’s what I do for a living.

Much of that money is piled up in China and the Gulf — two places where business is increasingly being done without Wall Street as the middle man.

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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-24-09 06:03 PM
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1. I would like to know if we NEED to be dominant...
Seems to have bankrupted us....
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-24-09 06:05 PM
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2. Losing our economic and military hyperpower status might be good for our maturity.
Either that or it will destroy us. Can't decide.

Looking around me these days, I get the feeling that a generation or two in the wilderness could, if nothing else, cure us of our poisonous American exceptionalism.
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kayakjohnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-24-09 06:57 PM
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3. And cure the rest of the world of it too.
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timeforpeace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-24-09 07:02 PM
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4. It's better to be liked than to be respected.
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