Gordon Brown is apparently to tell the United States Congress that Europe now has its most “pro-American” leaders “in living memory”.
That, however, may be a touch passé. The people running Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the European Commission have not changed. But the person running America has.
When can Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the European Commission expect to be run by figures who, like President Obama, combine economic populism (including economic patriotism) and foreign policy realism with an appeal to moral and social conservatives in the electorate at large?
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If by economic populism you mean telling people it is possible for us to spend lots of money we don't have without consequence we already have that sort of government. Beyond that Obama's campaign depended on America's desperate need to believe in a saviour, preferably one who was neither black nor white & the refusal of the media to report his feet of clay. We are seeing a larger rerun of Carter (who I also think was a fairly nice person).
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