{"id":3535,"date":"2009-10-08T07:39:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T11:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2009-10-08T07:47:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T11:47:44","slug":"survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/08\/survey\/","title":{"rendered":"survey&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/06\/survey-us-admired\/\">&#8230; U.S. rises to most admired country in the world. <\/a><br \/>    ThinkProgress<\/strong><br \/>    10\/08\/2009<\/div>\n<p>    <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Reuters reports that a new global survey has found that the United States is the most admired country in the world. The U.S. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20091005\/lf_nm_life\/us_usa_status\">nabbed<\/a><\/strong> the top spot of this year&rsquo;s National Brand Index (NBI), which ranks countries by how admired they are globally, up from number seven last year: <\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup>The United States is the most admired country globally thanks largely to the star power of President Barack Obama and his administration, according to a new poll. It climbed from seventh place last year, ahead of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan which completed the top five nations in the Nation Brand Index [NBI]. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s really remarkable is that in all my years studying national reputation, I have never seen any country experience such a dramatic change in its standing as we see for the United States for 2009,&rdquo; said Simon Anholt, the founder of NBI, which measured the global image of 50 countries each year.<\/sup><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">When asked about why he believes the United States shot up to the top of the list, Anholt explained that it likely is because of the election of Barack Obama. &ldquo;There is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20091005\/lf_nm_life\/us_usa_status\">no other explanation<\/a><\/strong>,&rdquo; he said.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">One could spin this report in a Limbaugh, Beck, O&#8217;Reilly way if you wanted to [If they read it, I expect they will do just that] &#8211; &quot;rock star&quot; comments or jokes about France because they had the good sense to avoid the Iraq War. But, to me, there&#8217;s another meaning. It&#8217;s not about Obama&#8217;s persona. It&#8217;s about the loud rejection of the nasty thread that seeped into our political landscape in 2000. It wasn&#8217;t just the corner bully Bush Doctrine. It was an erosion of the integrity that sits under our superficially contentious way of doing business in Washington. In my lifetime, we&#8217;ve done some wonderful things. The way we conducted ourselves in World War II comes to mind. Electing a Catholic President was a landmark at the time. Righting a terrible wrong with the Civil Rights Movement was a crowning moment. Getting rid of Dick Nixon was a powerful statement.<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Then, we jumped off of a cliff in 2000. We became religiously intolerant, pugilistic, expansionist. We started a War on fictitious grounds. We let a great city of our own drown. The American demeanor changed &#8211; became more like ancient Rome than ancient Athens. But now, in spite of a bunch of problems that are huge, and against a continuing tide of conservatism, we seem to be clawing our way back to where we belong &#8211; as a beacon for the world that in spite of our diversity and size, we&#8217;re still in the game that got started with &quot;all men are created equal.&quot; We may not be there, but at least we&#8217;re back to trying. <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">I hope that&#8217;s what the survey means&#8230; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; U.S. rises to most admired country in the world. ThinkProgress 10\/08\/2009 Reuters reports that a new global survey has found that the United States is the most admired country in the world. The U.S. nabbed the top spot of this year&rsquo;s National Brand Index (NBI), which ranks countries by how admired they are globally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}