Confidence in Obama lifts US Image Around the World

[Admiral Yi]

I thought your view was that anti-Americanism had very little to do with the Bush administration and was actually deeply ingrained.  Maybe someone else, Yi?

Doesn't sound like me.

[saskganesh]

There's been almost no change in US foreign policy since Obama took office.

The article says that the boost comes from personal confidence in Obama himself rather than any of his policies.

The Maltese and Vietnamese merchants on my street love the guy. I suspect the Jamaicans and Croats do as well.

[Caliga]

Style has always played a huge role in the Presidency.  George Washington sure had it.

I'm still angry with him for not allowing himself to be crowned King. 

[KRonn]

Style has always played a huge role in the Presidency.  George Washington sure had it.

I'm still angry with him for not allowing himself to be crowned King. 

"A light will shine down..."     

[Valmy]

I'm still angry with him for not allowing himself to be crowned King. 

I keep hearing how he could have been crowned king if he had wanted but I frankly do not buy it.  He probably could have become president for life or something similar but Washington becoming King of America would be roughly equivalent to Publius Valerius Publicola declaring himself King of Rome, the public simply was not going to have another King in the 1780s.