You just have to love the way EU bureaucrats use their hatred of the US in order to scare the British public into voting for the undemocratic EU Constitution. In today's Sunday Observer newspaper, Chris Patten, the EU's Commissioner for External affairs, waxes lyrical about his reasoning for an EU Super State:

And yet we have just lived through a period where we have subordinated ourselves to the United States.

Oh, that's a really good reason, Chris. His lack of British national self—esteem has turned him into a bitter and twisted man, who just cannot get over the fact that the US is the world's only Superpower. He seems to completely forget that if it hadn't been for the US there would be no EU whatsoever. For any Americans interested in the titanic struggle currently underway to drag Britain kicking and screaming into an EU Constitution, read the article in full.