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U.S. LOOKS TO IMPROVE IMAGE ABROAD
WASHINGTON (AP)--The White House is raising the profile of a little-known office meant to polish America's image abroad and rebuild ties with allies alienated by Bush administration policies. The Office of Global Communications has existed for months, quietly working with foreign news media outlets to get the American message out. The office was an outgrowth of an earlier administration effort to build public support overseas for the war on terrorism. But a series of administration decisions before and after the Sept. 11 attacks brought increasingly sharp criticism, even from some allies, spurring the administration to give new emphasis to the office.

Arrogant, stupid white men

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[qat.livejournal.com]

"Arrogant, stupid white men."

Yeah, that sums up a lot of the past thousand years or so, it seems :)

For 1988-1992 and 2000-2004, I think it could be summed up more specifically as "Arrogant, stupid white men named Bush." Let's hope for better things 2004-2008. If the world hasn't undergone massive nuclear attack by then due to the impending war in Iraq, of course.

It's really nice how Dubya has managed to singlehandedly ruin US foreign policy in two years. And who says the man's an idiot? That's quite a feat! Oh, wait.... Rome may not have been built in a day, but it sure could be effectively sacked in one by a band of snarling crotch-scratching idiots led by One Big Idiot.

Bleh!

[iamwells.livejournal.com]

Arrogant, stupid white men

Are you quoting Jarmusch films, or is the occurence of arrogant, stupid white men so frequent that it just rolls easily off the tongue?

I like how "offices" are created. It's the one thing that the checks and balances system can do that no other system can. Because the foundation of the government lies in multiple branches, we are able to create new branches that may or may not serve any other purpose than to take the blame for certain fuckups, lessening the blame thrown on the larger government as an entity.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help that members of Congress roll over and play dead for Duh boy, either.

[mrsassypants.livejournal.com]

Gore is just as evil as Bush, but no one likes to admit it. He was just quiet about it, as are most Dems. He is hypocritcal so called "environmentalist" amongst many other things. He's a war monger just like Bush. He may not be related to oil, but he has his own leanings.

There is no difference between the Dems and the Repubs. Any college level political science professor will agree.

They are all shit. If anything you must vote Green to put a wedge between the two. The two party system is killing this country.

Nadar would have made a horrible president. He's a better activist than politician. So many lefties were afraid to admit this. Its takes a spine to be president. The establishment will not bend for an outsider. Jimmy Carter learned this lesson best and is why he was a one-term president and generally regarded as a failure even though he was probably the brightest mind to hold that office the last century.

He got elected and surrounded himself with his good ole GA Crackers....which is good on one hand, but the establishment in Washington, the Pentagon, Congress etc, was having none of it. They resented that. And he had his hands tied for most of his presidency.

Nadar would have been a miserable failure as a president. He's much more effective as a voice screaming outside the door, never to get in. Once in, he'll be suffocated.


As far as the new image of America abroad and "arrogant stupid white men"...the woman heading up the agency (i forget the name of the agency, newly created after 9/11) for America's image is an "arrogant, smart white lady" who used to do major advertising campaigns...one of the biggest being Oscar Meyer weiners. HA! Funny....she sold weiners to America. She came up with the campaign "My boloney has a first name....".


Trafficant is a joke, always has been and always will be. He's barely a blip on the radar screen.