It is interesting to read what people in other parts of the world think about the current financial crisis. It is hard to believe that the de-regulation policies of George Bush (in the words of Democrats, though no one seems to be able to cite a specific deregulation enacted by Bush) caused economies of the entire world to crumble.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JJ28Dj07.html

Note the quote from Hitler. Russians had a similar conversation during the Carter Administration in which they realized that they had to expand by attacking the west while Carter was in office because their economy was collapsing. That was never reported in the press in the US, and later Mondale ran for President on the outright lie that "we are closer to nuclear war than ever before." People did not recognize the extent to which the media were "in the tank" for Democrats back then.

It will be interesting to see how Obama and the self-proclaimed foreign policy geniuses of the Democratic Party handle this. They say George Bush was a failure: we may get to see what real failure is like. The Democrats since Truman have been foreign policy failures. Oh, I know, they made people like us, even as our enemies attacked us relentlessly.