The German View of the Election

I was reading an article linked from Real Clear World and saw an article from the German site Der Spiegel.

Now, if there's anything that I want to read is what Germany has to say about our country.
But some nice snippets:

America is a superpower around the globe, but a Third World country at home, with an infrastructure that defies description. There are collapsing bridges, power failures along the entire East Coast, and homes in places like Florida, North Carolina and Texas are regularly destroyed every year by hurricanes that flatten houses as if they were beach bungalows in Haiti.

Did I miss this? Are our roads really collapsing and everyone dying or is this just a bit of an exaggeration.

America? A horrendous country that betrays its own values every few years, thus forfeiting its moral right to lead the Western world. It elects presidents who know nothing about the world, and have no interest in learning more, which explains why they readily succumb to errors and illusions, only to reveal their utter amazement when they finally -- and usually too late -- admit their mistakes. Since 1945, America has been fighting wars in countries that it knows very little about, and under premises that have almost nothing to do with reality.

Umm-- since when did Germany get to call any nation or person a horrendous one. And we've been making mistakes since 1945? Almost like they want us to forget history before that.

I know that America's not perfect, but we have people around the world, especially in Old Europe that are all too willing to assume and believe the worst about our country. I'm tired of this and I'd rather have a guy like Bush who will side with a country like Georgia or Albania than some arrogant nation still trying to escape its own faults by blaming us.

Oh, and of course they like Obama.