It's simple really.  Many people recognise that we are living in a de facto era of American domination - not just political, but military, economic and cultural as well.  The US has a military presence in over 100 "sovereign" nations, and a corporate and media presence in almost all. The system of global capitalism we live under - dominated by global corporations - is largely American in origin, ideology, design and control.  

Many people recognise that for all its faults - it is better than the competing systems of Nazism and Stalinism it defeated. They are prepared to work with America but distraught that America has not been prepared to work with them.  They bought into the ideology and failed to recognise the growing imperial reality.  Democracy and Freedom meant American Democracy and Freedom - and their relative servitude.  That system is changing now - largely due to the neoconservatives own hubris and over-reach.  Obama would be making a mistake if he thinks it can be rebuilt.  

We now have an emerging multi-polar world order which will bring its own (and different) global problems.  The last time we had a multi-polar world order, it lead to WW1.  I hope we have learned a little in the meantime, but when I saw the neocons tearing down thew pillars of international law I began to despair.  I'm not yet sure how different an Obama presidency will be.  More competent, certainly, but how much wiser?

Vote McCain for war without gain