Heninger: America isn’t dead. It’s just dead in the water.
Dan Heninger of the WSJ issues forth a cautionary column. It’s sobering.
At the start of 2008, according to Pew, well before the September financial implosion, 41% said the U.S. was the world’s leading economic power; 30% said China. By this November, those numbers had flipped: 44% said China was on top; only 27% said the U.S.
However false this is, what people are saying is they assume China in time will clean our clock. This is a frightening snapshot of national demoralization.
If we had a **shred** of leadership in the White House, this doesn’t happen. One leader, one spokesman who refuses to bad mouth the States would reverse this malaise.