If McCain wins, anti-Americanism will increase

Read the entire article. In short, if the US elects McCain in November, our status in the eyes of the world will get even lower.

clipped from www.commondreams.org If November 4 were a global ballot, Obama would win it handsomely. If the free world could choose its leader, it would be Barack Obama. Non-Americans sense that Obama will not ride roughshod over the international system but will treat alliances and global institutions seriously: McCain wants to bypass the United Nations in favour of a US-friendly League of Democracies. If Americans choose McCain, they will be turning their back on the rest of the world, choosing to show us four more years of the Bush-Cheney finger. And I predict a deeply unpleasant shift. Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been anti-Bushism, opposition to this specific administration. But if McCain wins in November, that might well change. Suddenly Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is with not only one ruling clique, but Americans themselves.