The View from Europe

While visiting with friends in France, we had a conversation about our new President Obama.  They were surprised that we said that we thought he was doing a terrible job, destroying our Constitution, spending too much money, and generally being a con-man of epic scale!  We had to explain to them about our Constitution and the 3 branches of government as described in the Constitution.  We explained how Obama has greatly exceeded the powers given the President by the Consitution and that he continues to expand his power and control in ways not granted to him by the Consitution.  We explained how he, with the help of his Democratic congress, have spent more money than we can ever hope to pay, and how he and Congress continue to do so.  We explained that he loves to travel everywhere and give lots of speeches, but he is not so good at actually DOING something to improve the problems we face in our country and in the world. We explained that his "stimulus package" that we had to rush to pass, has done little or nothing to improve our economy and the job losses are continuing. 

Their response was interesting.  They said that no matter how bad things are in the USA, it's still better than what they have in France!  I guess that's what we have to look forward to if we continue down the road of socialism as France has done.  

We have found mixed responses to Obama in Europe.  We've travelled in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands  We've had several people ask us what we thought of our new President.  Our negative response did not seem to disturb or surprise people!  The television programs here are much more critical of Obama.  He is not the Prince Charming here in Europe that our media would like us to think.  The television news programs are critical of the Obama administration and we are getting a lot of Republican responses being televised here.  It has surprised us how much negativity there is with Obama and what he's doing.  They all know that what happens in the US affects the world and affects them.

We're anxious to get home and get the real scoop of what's happening in the US.