Thus demonstrating why there isn’t much of a difference between the candidates in some respects:

“I’ll admit to you … that it’s tough in some respects,” McCain said when asked by a questioner at a town hall meeting how to be proud of the country.
“We have not always done things right and we mismanaged the war in Iraq very badly for nearly four years.”
[…]
“What we have to do is tell our friends around the world that we will be proud of America because of what we’re going to do.”

You know what would be nice? If we actually had a candidate who doesn’t really care about Europe’s view of us. What does it matter what France thinks?
Though, I agree with McCain on one aspect, it is tough to be proud of America sometimes. It was tough when American voters voted in Pelosi as leader of the House and Reid as majority leader in the Senate (by giving the majority to the Democrats) and it will be tough if they vote in Obama as president. I won’t have a whole lot of respect for the mental capacity of my fellow voter if that happens. And I’m sure there will be plenty of times I won’t feel too proud living in this nation on his rule.
Update: BTW, apparently it doesn’t take a change of presidents to get France to like us, only a change in their president.