A Dane watches the presidential debate

i largely agree with what your freind has to say here but as far as"For example: Americans can't produce cars in few years, because others will do it cheaper" what about the fact that Honda Toyota and Nissan have all opened autoplants in america recently?
Also, politicians don't make promises they have no ability or intention of keeping in Denmark?

I know what Sarah Palin will think when she reads this blog post (she reads everything right?) - holy cow - a dog that can email!!!

I agree with Carlos - politicians everywhere lie. that said, American politicians have the scale of the american economy to make their lies true whoppers. Other politicians have had to bow to practical realities a lot earlier.

Finally I dunno if we should be taking advice from a country that can't keep its park neat and clean from grafitti (http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/nyregion/09parks.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26nQ3DTopQ2FNewsQ2FU.S.Q2FU.S.Q2520States,Q2520TerritoriesQ2520andQ2520PossessionsQ2FNewQ2520York&OP=4837a2c0Q2FQ27wQ5EQ22Q27R4Q26Q3Ey44tvQ27vQ3AQ3A3Q27!Q3AQ27Q3A,Q27kTyQ5EcS4kQ27Q3A,dCyQ24Q3EQ7BQ51tQ5Bf) Sorry for paywall.

I'm not sure about this, but, given the current crisis, considering we're losing so much influence, we seem to be taking a lot of people down with us.

@Don - true, but that doesnt mean we're not losing future influence in the process of setting the sandbox on fire. the influence of british empires didn't evaporate overnite. It went over a century. Look at how much/style of America's influence in the world changed since the collapse of the Berlin wall.

Rome didn't fall in a day. Time to reread Gibbons (the abridged version, that is).

America is not losing her influence with a bang but with a whimper....

It's not the American people who need to wake up to this situation (we kind of already know it, after all, the out sourced jobs were ours) but our leaders, who everyday show their ignorance, self serving short sightedness, & plain stupidity. Cromwell, where are you?

@Carlos: Do you really think, Honda, Toyota and Nissan plan to keep all of the employees? What lesson have you learned about the development in the (American) car industry for the past 30 years?
@Anonymous Dude: From what Palin says, I think I know more about American foreign policy than her - even if I can't see Russia from my house. When even Fox can't help her out, you know it's time to quit. And no--it didn't take the British empire over a century to evaporate, only a couple of decades. But the British still hang on to the fact that they once were an Empire…hmm…where have we seen that recently…?

Yes, the US is a role model for the western countries. Yes, the US has contributed enor-mously to the worlds growth and wealth, and yes, the US has in many ways been the symbol of "anything is possible, if you want to go for it".

But high times aren't going to last, just because you did well in the last millennium. The symbolic value of the US is way higher than the actual dollar value. Let me ask Carlos and Anonymous Dude this: What do you think will happen, if all of debt collecting countries showed up on Capitol Hill tomorrow, saying: Oh yea, we want our money back. Start treating other countries with just some sort of equality, and not the "we know everything, we do it right all the time and everybody else should follow our example - U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"-attitude.

I love the states, I've lived there, but all I ask, is that you start viewing your country in a larger context.

Regards
The Dane a.k.a. the emailing Dog

Ps: yes, all Danish politicians keep all of their promises all the time….

@The Dane

You need to read more sarcasm in my posts.

An actual Great Dane Dog has more FP knowledge than Palin.

The refence to Danish Grafitti ridden parks was also sarcasm. And I've actually had several very pleasant evenings in Tivoli Gardens drinking too much Tuborg and i dont recall that much/any grafitti.

I think my other comments are in agreement actually. We still remain a very influentual country in the world, but we've done enormous damage to our reputation, particularly in the last 8 years. Whether or not the damage is repairable remains to be seen. And certainly other countries are always hankering to get in the game ...

And yes, the fall of the BE is typically described as post WWII event, I was being expansive as i initially was thinking of referring to the Roman empire as well then deleted it (and then lambasted myself when ffred threw it out there).

Should everyone demand their money back we would print money like no tomorrow and suffer 3rd world inflation and economic dislocation.

I'd also like to amend my post - sarah palin would not say holy cow, she'd say Great Gatsby's Moose!

@Anonymous; HA! Sorry, I didn't get it, but in retrospect, I see it.

About the grafitti in the parks--I have no clue, I hate the nature and never go there, so I actually can't/didn't judge you on that one.

Next time, you're in DK let me know--there's plenty of places way better than Tivoli. Then we'll get some better beers and look at how history has treated the US-reputation and influence, other countries faults and how we're gonna fix the future for all. I'm sure we can think of some other topics too. (That's an open invitation to all American Curious-bloggers)

The Dane/Dog/Moose