Much of the world is looking at the coming of Obama as a miracle.

Why?

Because we white Americans have alienated the vast majority of the world's peoples.

You cannot lay all the blame on George Bush. People disliked us long before Mr. Bush was elected. What he did was destroy respect, which allowed the world's latent anti-American feelings to be expressed loudly and clearly.

The problem is the "Me First" attitude we parade around with. We seem to shout, "My feelings are important, but yours are not."

Arabs who had studied in Europe returned home with a much better impression of America than Arabs who had studied in the U.S. (This was BB, or Before Bush.)

We expected the English to have humble gratitude in WWII when we sent the boys over to rescue them from Hitler's expected sea attack. But their attitude was "Americans are oversexed, overpaid and over here."

What are the things we do now that alienates the world's peoples?

Billy Bob Bootstrap of Cowdung, Texas, made a trip to Europe, where he expected every shop and restaurant to accept American dollars. But when he returned home to find a local Mexican restaurant accepting Mexican pesos, he hit the roof, screaming and yelling about "the goddamn Mexicans taking over the country" and how it was unAmerican for anyone to accept foreign currency.

Tony "the Fish" Lasagna of New York yelled repeatedly at a cab driver in Tuscany who spoke French, German and Italian – but not English. Shouting something that sounded like "fungoo," Tony slammed the cab door and waved for another. Of course, Tony only spoke English, and not too well at that. Yet he considered a man who spoke three languages to be an ignorant fool.

The very Reverend Jumpin' Joe Jehosaphat of Lowdown, Mississippi, preached angrily against Planned Parenthood and those who advocated stem cell research. "Baby killers!" he shouted from the pulpit. Then he went on to call anyone opposing the Iraq War "traitors to America" – ignoring the tens of thousands of Iraqis killed, wounded and made homeless. His congregation of "loyal" Americans apparently felt abortion and stem cell research were more reprehensible than the mere killing of men, women and children.

Cora Ann Corncrop of Quincy, Illinois, ridiculed a family of recent immigrants from India who were of the Hindu faith and believed that cows were sacred and that monkeys were gods. That Sunday, Cora Ann taught a Sunday School class at the Presbyterian Church, which uses a Bible that claims that the first mortal women on earth was able to have conversations with a snake. (Something that "happened" many millennia before LSD was invented.)

Henry "the Deuce" Ford presided over a company which ground out cars of atrocious quality. Henry didn't care much about quality as long as sales and profits held up. One day a furious owner of an expensive lemon drove up in front of the Ford Headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, and parked illegally in front of the building. He calmly got out, unscrewed the gas cap of his new Lincoln, and flipped a lighted match into the gas tank. The resulting explosion and fire created quite a stir. Outraged, Henry called the police, then went back to his nap, while Ford continued making bad cars until American and Canadian auto buyers were rescued by Toyota and Honda.

George "Chainsaw" Bush cavalierly refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty when Europe was worried sick about the harsh effects of global warming. He flipped them the diplomatic equivalence of an "up yours." Then he was outraged when Europe, led by France, torpedoed the import of America's genetically modified corn. When France rightly opposed the Iraq War, Bushers urged everyone to boycott French fries and French wines. Powerless to restrain America's love for McDonald's, Bush's supporters tried to rename the food "Freedom Fries."

Admiral Orville Obtuse loves to steam his U.S. carrier fleet through the Straits of Taiwan, even though it infuriates China. The Admiral, who thinks an eight-inch gun is a male appendage, never considers how Americans would feel if the Chinese sent a battle fleet sailing up and down our West Coast in sight of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Later, the Admiral is stunned and outraged when the Chinese government refuse to let his fleet dock in Hong Kong for shore leave. Later, two American ships caught in a huge storm were refused shelter by the Chinese Navy. But good old Obtuse will be sailing up and down China's coast again.

George "the Busher" Bush wants to put advanced "defensive" missiles in Czechoslovakia and Poland "to protect Europe against a sneak attack from Iran." Naturally, the Russian government is outraged about America placing advanced missiles so close to the Russian border. It may encourage Prime Minister Putin to retaliate by placing his missiles in Venezuela and Cuba – which could trap us into a repeat of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which almost plunged the world into Nuclear War during the Kennedy Administration. Bush destroyed the believability of the word "defense" when he ordered his Defense Department to attack sovereign Iraq without provocation.

Senator Charles "the Subsidy" Grassley of Iowa deplores the famine in much of the world, pretending to a pious man. Then he plumped for big subsidies for ethanol, which made farmers rich, but which raised the price of corn and caused shortages of wheat, soybeans and rice. The result was a massive increase in the world's food prices – which increased the world's famine, which Senator Subsidy is still deploring. In some parts of the world, families can no longer afford to feed their daughters. As a result little girls are being forced to marry before the age of 15.

Read these examples of America's obtuse behavior and it will not be difficult to understand why we are so detested in so many parts of the world.

And you will understand why the election of Barack Obama in many parts of the world is taking on the imagery of the Second Coming of Christ.

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