From Great Britain: US government shutdown: Barack Obama is presiding over the end of America's superpower status

Not that there has been any question over the past five disastrous years but now the rest of the world is talking about it openly. Progressives must be so proud, they have wanted the take down of America for decades.

US government shutdown: Barack Obama is presiding over the end of America's superpower status

By Con Coughlin World Last updated: October 1st, 2013

For a country that is supposed to be the most powerful in the world, the fact that Americans have today woken up to find large swathes of their nation closed for business is humiliating.

Thanks to President Barack Obama obduracy over his flagship healthcare policy, Democrats and Republicans have failed to reach agreement in Congress on the federal budget, forcing the US Government to close down for the first time in 17 years, with around 700,000 federal workers being placed on indefinite leave.

While the White House insists that essential areas of the government, such as the military, will continue to function, the shut down represents yet a further blow to the prestige of the Obama administration at a time when it is still reeling from its inept handling of the recent Syrian crisis.

Read more: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100238900/us-government-shutdown-barack-obama-is-presiding-over-the-end-of-americas-superpower-status/

I wonder who this makes happy...aside from the Progressives here in America?

Russia...China...North Korea...Syria...Iran....

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Typical, the Progressives think this is a good thing. Tragic. They don't believe America should be an exceptional nation...they believe in shared misery.