One legacy Bush&Cheney can count on
Poll: Because of Bush the Rest of World Thinks US Sucks
Thank Goodness! .. it's not just me being paranoid. At least I beat the rush and didn't trust him from the very start.
From timesonline: "Global distrust of President Bush is mutating into an almost worldwide sentiment of antiAmericanism, according to the world’s most comprehensive poll of international opinion, published yesterday.
The Pew Institute’s survey of 45,239 people in 47 nations shows support for the US has dropped sharply among traditional allies in the West, including Britain, as well as substantial declines elsewhere in Latin America, Eastern Europe, China and the Middle East.
It found “a broad and deepening dislike of American values and a global backlash against the spread of American ideas” – although US technology and popular culture is still held in high regard. [..]"
Let's see, I'm trying to think .. who *does* like us? There's Albania .. and Mexico for sure .. and I think Australia...
Does Canada still like us? I forget...
I am thinking maybe Iceland or Greenland might still like us...
I was gonna say the North Pole because Santa lives there but the Russians just stole it.
Well, after all, here inside America the Bush/Cheney regime is held in very LOW regard by our OWN people. Why should we be surprised when foreigners have figured out the same thing. But they shouldn't distrust individual Americans .. that would be missing what's really going on, since that smell of corruption and incompetence is coming from INSIDE the White House .. NOT from without.
Yet .. we did elect him TWICE.
I caught some of his speech the other day .. the one where he was talking about how he tried to improve American/Muslim relations after 9/11. You could tell he was expecting applause .. but didn't get any. Then someone -- my guess is a planted audience member -- suddenly started clapping .. which spurred the whole room. It was classic.
Ah well .. he'll always have Albania ... if not his watch ...
