That much of the world is offended by U.S. attitudes and ideas

I fail to see how passports have anything to do with the US attitudes and ideas. Why would travel have anything to do with US attitudes and ideas? Especially now since the economy will not allow people to travel. Da Vinci code is a book, for entertainment. I'm sure there are historically accurate facts in that book but give me a break, its a book. There are a lot of books that bend the truth.... and the book is listed under fiction, if your looking for facts in that maybe you should put down fiction novels and read non fiction. Moreover, just because he is comparing two things doesn't mean he is saying one came before or after another, your merely looking for argumentative content where there is none. Do you know who Barack Obama is? He is the President of the United States of AMERICA, not the king or prime minister of another country. Of course he is going to talk about how AMERICANS are performing when he talks to AMERICANS. Its not our fault your news stations publish/air the material, I don't ever hear your prime minister/queen/president, talk about American troops... where is our recognition from the UK? Don't be a hypocrite. Greedy and selfish? We EARNED our cash and wealth. Our system is based of a social contract and a version of democracy and it worked, its not our fault other poor nations don't follow the same trend as us. And you forget to realize THE US DONATES MORE MONEY/SUPPLIES THEN ANOTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. How's that for being greedy? Oh and Paris Hilton inherited her money from her father, who worked his butt off to build a company and ensure financial stability for his family (this would include his daughter Paris) among other reasons. And there is an inheritance tax. And a tax of over 50% on the wealthy. With gas, the US buys gas at world market prices, just if you didn't know that. And much of US gas comes from off shore drilling rigs and Alaskan supplies. Did you know well fair has its own insurance? That's right, the poor have insurance. And they get help from the Government in may different ways, also by non profit organizations such as the red cross. But I don't see where this ties into your argument subject so I wont go much into this. Oh and the Red Cross, who is one of the largest non profitable organizations and provide aid to the rest of the world, was founded in the US. And thank you for the spell check even though I didn't spell anything wrong. You might be talking about my grammar, if that is the case you shouldn't be because you had more grammatical errors then me. The world is greedy, that is what drive economics my friends, without entrepreneurship there would be no civil modern world. Without greed and competition to be the best and have the best, technology wouldn't have progressed this far. Also, no one in Europe is justified in calling Americans "greedy" because your history is filled and rattled with greedy selfish people such as queens and kings. But im not going to complain about it because it is what drives society. But to much is what hurts society and economics such in the case of communism. What your proposing (the US distributing the wealth) is reaching close to communism my friend, and every communist country lives in poverty and or has failed. Maybe the US should just take over the world and everyone would be just as wealthy as us eh?