Let down by the commonwealth mentality

After living in the US for 15 years, NZ for 8 and Aus for 4 I've met a few Brits, Kiwi, Aussies and Yanks. Anytime George puts up one of these "why we care so much about the US" interviews, he takes it personally upon himself to pander to the little island "tall poppy syndrome" anti-american of a very embarrassing insecurity complex in the queens commonwealth.. Really folks, rise above it. You owe it to your kids. Celebrate prosperity and economic opportunity with US. Everybody wins!

Nothing changes in the US

WOW...they call themselves the leaders of the freeworld. I think this piece really demonstrates how lucky we are here in Australia. I agree with all the comments made so far. Here is a president who has inherited a country at it's knees and is suppose to be a miracle worker. On the other hand, I think political leaders need to be mindful that talk is supported by action. The Tea Party is a front for the major healthcare corp and Republicans. $$$ over peoples lives.

Surprisingly Biased Report

Why didn't Aaron Lewis ask any follow up questions of those he interviewed? Like "who whould you pick to do a better job of trying to fix up the mess (i.e. the economy, 2 wars, healthcare, education etc.)?" Is there some super human person out there that we don't know about? The people in Tom's Diner were already anti-Obama, so why waste air time asking those same people. George, using the term "hand-picked" in reference to the U.S. Ambassador is a bit "off." All Presidents choose them.

The whole truth

The insurance companies spent a million a month fighting health care last year. Fox News and the insurance lobby arrange many of the speakers to the tea party meetings. Right now 40,000 people die in the USA from lack of health care each year. Notice all the people of color who are at the Tea Party meetings, or lack of. The problem was created by the Republican Party starting with Pres Regan, and deregulation of our banking industry and wall street.

baffled

Isn't it funny that when they have jobs and money, they keep sniping 'leave us alone, we want small government, take your socialist nose somewhere else', and when they have no jobs/money they expect government to be socialists and 'create' jobs. Jobs evolve, creation is temporary and only lasts as long as the creator provides the money. Nobody forced the US to shift their manufacturing base to China, if I remember correctly.

Hardly representative of American opinion!

The diner customers mainstream Americans? NO! Featuring them blatantly biased the piece. So too the interviews with the heavily-conservative "experts." So many other US viewpoints could have been shown! Why focus on those idiots? Featuring the fake $ with an "Arab" Obama on the website is pure sensationalism. And why snidely refer to the ambassador as "hand-picked" repeatedly? Would it have been better for him to have been chosen by a machine? All in all VERY disappointing "journalism".

More depth required to report

The segment by Aaron Lewis was more an entertaining flick than really informative in my view. The customers at Tom's Diner were clearly pro-republican so why were their views the entree to the story? And they were not asked by Lewis what they hoped to see from Obama. Nor did the report tackle any topic or relate polls. Two things seem clear - Obama has not marshalled the grassroots community with him on policy and has not been as effective as hoped in communicating what he's doing and why.

Health in the USA

Perhaps if the Americans started eating healthy food they might not have burdensome medical system. Did you see the obese people being interviewed and the food being served up.