Brits to Bush: Good Riddance
Bush's farewell European tour should give him pause, although, with bubble boy that won't happen. A recent global poll should also shock him and his criminal crew but that won't happen to this delusional bunch, either.
Jim Lobe writes at IPS News: "An average of two out of three respondents in 20 nations whose combined population make up 60 percent of the world's population said they either had "no" or "not too much confidence" in Bush "to do the right thing regarding world affairs", by far the highest negative rating of eight leaders featured in a new survey released here Monday by WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO).
"The lack of confidence in Bush's leadership was particularly strong in the greater Middle East, Latin America, and among Washington's traditional allies in Western Europe, including two of the nations visited by Bush in his valedictory tour of "Old Europe" during the past week -- Britain (77 percent negative) and France (85 percent negative).
"It found that, for the first time since Bush became president, attitudes toward the U.S. has improved modestly during 2007, but that negative views toward Bush himself remained strong, especially in Western Europe, Latin America and the greater Middle East.
"Indeed, the director of the Pew poll, Andrew Kohut, told reporters that the improvement of Washington's image appeared to be due more to anticipation of the end of Bush's term and the accession of a new president next January than to any other factor.
"McCain is probably associated with President Bush," Kohut suggested when asked to explain the much greater confidence in Obama expressed by respondents."
And the British Independent contains a scathing editorial about Dubya including these excerpts: "So perhaps Mr Bush's most significant legacy, as far as Britain is concerned, will be the destruction of the instinctive trust of America and its leaders that once prevailed here. It is no exaggeration to say that Mr Bush has done more damage to relations between our two nations than any president in living memory. This rupture is not an accident of circumstance; there are no impersonal forces of history to blame. This sorry state of affairs is the consequence of the actions of a single leader and his small coterie of advisers.
"And whatever the future holds for transatlantic relations, there will be very few in this country who watched President Bush's plane depart yesterday without a feeling of profound relief that the end of this disastrous presidency is finally in sight."
Jim Lobe writes at IPS News: "An average of two out of three respondents in 20 nations whose combined population make up 60 percent of the world's population said they either had "no" or "not too much confidence" in Bush "to do the right thing regarding world affairs", by far the highest negative rating of eight leaders featured in a new survey released here Monday by WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO).
"The lack of confidence in Bush's leadership was particularly strong in the greater Middle East, Latin America, and among Washington's traditional allies in Western Europe, including two of the nations visited by Bush in his valedictory tour of "Old Europe" during the past week -- Britain (77 percent negative) and France (85 percent negative).
"It found that, for the first time since Bush became president, attitudes toward the U.S. has improved modestly during 2007, but that negative views toward Bush himself remained strong, especially in Western Europe, Latin America and the greater Middle East.
"Indeed, the director of the Pew poll, Andrew Kohut, told reporters that the improvement of Washington's image appeared to be due more to anticipation of the end of Bush's term and the accession of a new president next January than to any other factor.
"McCain is probably associated with President Bush," Kohut suggested when asked to explain the much greater confidence in Obama expressed by respondents."
And the British Independent contains a scathing editorial about Dubya including these excerpts: "So perhaps Mr Bush's most significant legacy, as far as Britain is concerned, will be the destruction of the instinctive trust of America and its leaders that once prevailed here. It is no exaggeration to say that Mr Bush has done more damage to relations between our two nations than any president in living memory. This rupture is not an accident of circumstance; there are no impersonal forces of history to blame. This sorry state of affairs is the consequence of the actions of a single leader and his small coterie of advisers.
"And whatever the future holds for transatlantic relations, there will be very few in this country who watched President Bush's plane depart yesterday without a feeling of profound relief that the end of this disastrous presidency is finally in sight."
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