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LONDON - Spend six months covering a nasty Democratic primary fueled by bitterness over a hard war and conspiracy theories, ranging from the verifiably false to the patently absurd, and you can't be blamed for thinking the lights have gone out in America, once that shining city on a hill. America lied her way into launching an unprovoked war, they say. Her soldiers have murdered women, children and innocents. Her government crushes human rights and tortures prisoners illegally held. President Bush himself is a war criminal who squandered all the world's good will after 9/11 and left America an amoral, hypocritical, war-mongering rogue country in desperate need of repairing her image abroad. Now, spend six days on the Obama tour from the sands of Jordan to the pubs of London and this picture of a sadly crumbling America is... [read full story]
