Quoted: Because we are the most powerful nation on the face of the planet. Penis envy. The Europeans are upset because we are what they used to be, and the rest of the world is upset because they want the nice house and the car and all that shit.

Bingo.

It's human nature for people to dislike whomever is #1.

Instead of hating us and trying to change our society they should be emulating us, and hence our relative success as a nation.

Idoits.

CMOS

Who the hell cares about what the ROW thinks?  Only bed-wetting libs get their panties in a bunch over that crap.

We're now in Pax Americana.  We engender the same emotions that ancient Rome did for many of the same reasons.

Screw the ROW.

Quoted: Quoted: I really don't care why.  Nor do I. But..... Because we have the best looking women!!!!!!! Sorry man, you are very wrong about that!  Go to East Europe and other parts of Europe.  You walk around with a bonner 24/7 in the summer time.

What the hell is a bonner?

I'd also like to point out that Americans are just people, and we are not better than other people around the world.

But we are blessed by being born in (or immigrated to) a country that was intentionally created with very high noble ideals and rational government that extends liberty and justice to individuals.  Most countries are established on ethino-linguist lines, or by the will of a strong ruler.  The US was a unique new tack based on the best ideas the West had to offer on political theories.  And our dominance in the world is a result of that embrace of the West and the Enlightenment thinkers.

This is why neo-conservative think what we have in America is available to all people everywhere in the world.  It's not us or the land that makes America great.  It's our political values, and there's no reason why anyone can't have what we have.

I love this country so much

Quoted: I'd also like to point out that Americans are just people, and we are not better than other people around the world. But we are blessed by being born in (or immigrated to) a country that was intentionally created with very high noble ideals and rational government that extends liberty and justice to individuals.  Most countries are established on ethino-linguist lines, or by the will of a strong ruler.  The US was a unique new tack based on the best ideas the West had to offer on political theories.  And our dominance in the world is a result of that embrace of the West and the Enlightenment thinkers. This is why neo-conservative think what we have in America is available to all people everywhere in the world.  It's not us or the land that makes America great.  It's our political values, and there's no reason why anyone can't have what we have. I love this country so much images.google.com/images?q=tbn:2KJ_vtG8b8IJ:www.viewonline.com/pages/editorials/images/american-flag.gif

Excellently put Raven…

The USA is a totally unique country politically and socially, and thats what makes it so different.  Only the USA has had the advantage of starting out with a clean sheet of paper legally, politically, socially and landwise and putting down what were the best ideas of the day s a starting point without all the baggaage of the 'old world'.

The really annoying thing is your founding fathers used Britains 'Bill of Rights' as a starting point, your guys had the good sense to enshrine it in 'Tablets of Stone' our lot just assumed Governments would respect it……very bad call.

Andy

Because we are the most powerful and greatest nation on the planet. All others pale in comparison.


Its not arrogant. Its simply the truth. People cant handle the truth. It upsets them and they lash out.

Who cares what other countries think?

Quoted: For the most part the United States of America is viewed as a Christian Nation and most of the world (that hates us) is pagan or unbelievers. The only nation hated more would possibly be Israel by the Arab nations. BigDozer66

Add to that our military and financial support for Israel- on top of the very good points about America's wealth and might- so of course we're viewed by them as "The Great Satan."

It's GOOD to be the Great Satan, isn't it fellas?

 Speaking of American beer, reminds me of this Canuck who was complaining about our beer.  

HIM: You know the difference between two people screwing in a canoe and American beer?
ME:  What?
HIM: They're both fuckin near water.

Seriously though, some of the world's beer makes many of our weaker brews seem like watered down kiddie beer- but who the hell wants to drink 40 proof beer-syrup to quench their thirst?  Give me a good Sam Adams, Amber Bock, or Budweiser any day of the week, thank you very much.  

Quoted: Quoted: if you look beyond Bud and Coors and into Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, and most of our microbrews, we make some pretty damn good beer. Common American beer sucks majorly.  Common Australian beer is far superior to AMerican beer.  Havent had any of that microbrew stuff but any beer from the US here isnt touched. I like that fancy schmancy European beer but my pov arse uni student me cant afford to pay $7.50 AUD a bottle.

I'll drink a Fosters to that mate!
Actually a Budwieser fan here.

Quoted: We are more successful, more powerful, richer, better, whatever than them. We invented the telephone, the computer, the internet, factory-line mass-production, most medications, and a shitload of other things that make their life tolerable. Plus, if you look beyond Bud and Coors and into Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, and most of our microbrews, we make some pretty damn good beer.

Remember the USA sent a man to the moon and back, sent various space crafts to all planets in the solar system. Now that is a feat of modern scientific genuis.

And what about the American movies?

Quoted: What legitimate reason is there for people to hate Bush though?

Legitimate reason?

Well, for a socialist/liberal, there are a few...

He's the most anti-socialist president since Reagan, and they're treating him the same way...

Bush doesn't believe the UN should have a say in US policy

He believes the US should do what's best for us, and that if our 'allies' don't support us on this, that they aren't very good allies...

He has had the gall to ignore the views of those Americans who will never vote for him (Bush policy back here has been basically similar to our foreign policy: If you agree with Bush domestic policy good, if not, you're not gonna vote for him anyway so too bad for you)....

And he doesn't care how many feathers he ruffles in the process...

The Bush haters want someone to 'feel their pain' and many liberals are so convinced of their own superiority that they cannot understand why a conservative president rejects liberal ideas out-of-hand (They complain because Bush would rather cut taxes than increase spending on welfare programs & public education. It's as if they cannot fathom how any president would NOT believe what they do, ignoring the fact that the people who put Bush in office WANT tax cuts instead of social programs)...

Those are the ones I run into the most (I'm working with the local campaign office)...

In the rest of the world, Bush is hated because he symbolizes American 'arrogance', by his attitude that the US doesn't *need* the rest of the world bad enough to allow thw rest of the world to influence US policy... This is true - we don't. However, the other half is that we're glad to work with those who agree with us...

because of all of those damn liberals in the media

we have everything in the world to be self-sufficient, yet we continue to milk the world for other coutries' resources to save some/make some $$$$

Same reason some call Microsoft "the Borg".  

Only the "Sheepherder" mentality of the Islamo-fascists truly hates us and wants us dead.  The rest may envy us but they want to do business with us, ......OK by me.\

edit:  Wait, I left out media bias and hype....gotta have a bad guy to sell the news.

I don't buy the idea that the rest of the world hates us. There are specific cultures (Socialism and Militant Islam) that hate us because their philosophy tells them that they should be the most successful culture in the world, yet our "inferior" culture keeps zooming past them. They are so dead-set on the idea that their philosophy is Never Wrong that they hate us and invent nonsense reasons why we aren't really successful. The more evident it is that we are successful, the more they hate us. While it is only these cultures that hate us, they have done a remarkable job (especially the Socialists) of convincing themselves that they are the world. Therefore, a small number of Socialists hating us becomes the whole world hating us, in their minds.

All of these philosophies are the antithesis to all that makes us successful. Therefore, not only should we not care that they hate us, we should be glad. The more they hate us, the more we know that we're doing it right.

For awhile, America showed alot of prosperity that made it attractive to immigration.  I remember hearing that the Soviets used propaganda film to the people showing images from the depression, saying this is what to expect if they were head to America.  The film backfired. One person pointed out that in the film, there was one guy who loaded his family and valuables into his car to look for work in California.  The guy said, "In the USSR, only the elite of the Party have cars, but in the US, even the poorest of the poor can afford a car!"

I think there's alot of anger towards Bush because he knocked over a hornet's nest and said "either you're with us or against us" when it comes to fighting terrorism.  Every country has cells operating within them, but they existed on a "live let live" level, and as long as they weren't touched, they were out of sight and mind.  By getting countries to commit to fighting terrorism, they had to aggrevate their own hornet's nests within their borders.

class envy, plain & simple