A good talking point for Kerry 2008:

OPORTO, Portugal, Dec 7 (Reuters) – European Socialists
promised on Thursday to work to rebuild Europe’s strategic
alliance with the United States now that the Democrats control
Congress after last month’s elections.
Socialist leaders attending a meeting of the European
Socialist Party pledged that with the Democrats on the rise,
strong ties could be renewed with the United States after years
of cool relations with Republican President George W. Bush.
Howard Dean, chairman of the national committee of the U.S.
Democratic Party, is attending the two-day conference together
with the leaders of leftist governments of several countries and
party leaders from across Europe.
“We are not anti-American, we want the real America, your
America,” former Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen,
president of the European Socialist Party, said in remarks
directed at Dean.