| Watching the inauguration of President Obama and the | | | | happens the rest of the world. It can set up regimes |
| reactions of the nations of the world bought home to | | | | that torture as a matter of course, And basically lie to |
| me just how much influence the President of the USA | | | | the world. |
| has in world affairs. The influence is so great that it is | | | | This is not acceptable. It will change because it must |
| time to consider the possibility that the people of the | | | | change.There is the possibility that America will |
| world need to vote in the election of the US President. | | | | collapse and cease to be a world power. That is a |
| In the case of Barack Obama it is likely that if it had | | | | real possibility because if it continues as it has for the |
| been a world election President Obama would have | | | | last eight years it will destroy itself from within. Another |
| been elected. But the immediate past President would | | | | possibility is that the world tells America that it will not |
| have been unlikely to have received a second | | | | accept the continued interference of America in world |
| term.Australia, even if he had been elected the first | | | | affairs. There are signs of this also being a real |
| time. | | | | possibility. It could be a question of survival for the |
| My feelings about the election of G W Bush started | | | | world. Yet anther possibility is that the world takes a |
| with incredibility, progressed to disbelief with a lot of | | | | more active part in American affairs. It is overdue. |
| humour, but ended the last twelve months with the | | | | America has interfered whenever and wherever it has |
| prayer that the world would survive G W's term. I think | | | | felt inclined. The continuous rhetoric about democracy |
| it was a close call. | | | | should not apply only at home, it must apply |
| My country, Australia, is suffering, as is the rest of the | | | | world-wide. Whatever happens American cannot |
| world, from the incompetence of the previous US | | | | continue as it has in the recent past. I feel confident |
| President's managing of the economy. What is | | | | that Barack Obama can undo much of the damage |
| basically a sound economy has been decimated by | | | | done by George Bush, but that does not mean that |
| US policies over which Australia had no control.In the | | | | everything is OK. After Obama does the world end up |
| area of combating global warming America has set | | | | with another Bush? I don't think the nations of the |
| the word back years. It looks as if America is now set | | | | world would accept another Bush and if America |
| to play catch up but it could be too late.The American | | | | cannot find away of accommodating its allies as well |
| population is about three percent of the world's | | | | as it opponents it will not have any allies. Barack |
| population. But that three percent controls the world. It | | | | Obama may be the last chance America has to stay |
| can plunge the world into war with no thought of what | | | | relevant. |