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Originally posted by Eva02Soul@Dec 30 2005, 09:05 AM
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I don't really like how people use the expression 'leader of the free world'...
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Like most things, it is a title that only becomes generally known after it has ceased representing reality. "Leader of the free world" applied during WWII, after the US entered the war. It applied directly afterwards, when the US led the effort to refinance a wartorn world with the generous Marshall Plan. Arguably it has come to mean less and less through the years, until you have George Bush and his morally bankrupt, intellectually miniscule regime whose focus has always been on cronyism.