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D_Raay
09-22-2004, 02:08 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/20/schneider.world/index.html

Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry says he has heard "from people who are leaders elsewhere in the world who don't appreciate the Bush administration approach and would love to see a change in the leadership of the United States.''
CNN's Richard Quest, who recently returned from a tour of the U.S., said: "There are vast numbers of people, especially in Europe, that are looking at the United States' population and cannot understand how they want to re-elect George W. Bush. It is a simple fact.''
A Bush campaign official once said Kerry "looks French." Apparently, the French were impressed. They gave Kerry a 59-point lead. Only 5 percent of the French voted for Bush.
What about the Bush administration's closest ally, Britain? Not even close. The British favored Kerry by over 30 points.
In Asia, Kerry carried China, Japan and Indonesia. Only the Philippines, a former American colony fighting its own Muslim insurrection, went for Bush. In India and Thailand, the race was close. Swing countries?
The overwhelming hostility to President Bush in the world does have consequences for those "foreign leaders'' Kerry was talking about.

"Look at the damage to those politicians who have been associated with Bush," Quest said.

"Aznar in Spain, to Berlusconi in Italy, to John Howard, now running neck-and-neck in his own re-election in Australia with an economy that's booming. He should be walking in.

"And now look at Tony Blair. Every leader that has stood side-by-side with George Bush is feeling the electorate's wrath.''

Blair's Labour government faces re-election, possibly as early as next spring.
His people are reported to have informed the White House that Blair needs to keep his distance from Bush so as not to endanger his own survival.
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Now before you say it doesn't matter what the world thinks, who the hell do you think is going to help in the massive rebuilding project that needs attending to in Iraq? Also take a look at the results from the quick vote halfway down the page. 17701 votes and it's 72% Kerry. Where the hell are we getting our poll numbers from and what conspiracy are they all involved in?

EN[i]GMA
09-22-2004, 05:18 PM
People in the world don't count. Their pussies and socialist who believe in giving health care to poor people and not bombing innocent civilians. What do they know?

QueenAdrock
09-22-2004, 05:23 PM
I heard on the news a few minutes ago that people are voting for Bush because they think he'll change what he's doing now and not be as evil, because that's what he promises. Yeah, just like he said he wasn't gonna use troops for nation-building in 2000. :rolleyes:

I hate people.

And I guess it doesn't apply to this thread, but I felt like replying with something.

EN[i]GMA
09-22-2004, 05:45 PM
Being in the war zone here in Ohio, the feeling is that Bush is fighting this glorious campaign to end terror. It seems stupid action is better than inaction in the minds of many here.

yeahwho
09-22-2004, 05:54 PM
How far removed from reality are we? Shouldn't we learn from the sandbox to treat others like we would like to be treated. The golden rule is broken by the USA or more specifically "Bush" in the name of terrorism.

His action is to neglect what others say, abuse his power and do what he is told by people who will profit $$$ not peaceful dividends.

The rest of the world thinks Bush is a bully. A large portion of the very people he is trying to liberate are laying for us, because he represents the USA.

Bush should be sent to the playground to watch pre-schoolers play with each other. See how problems are resolved and co-operation implemented. I'm just afraid he'd become a bully and make the other kids cry.

ChrisLove
09-22-2004, 05:57 PM
As I have said before, the is a feeling of stunned amazment around the world that a president like George Bush could even be in the running in this election, one struugles to imagine the incompetance of the oppositon or the brain washing that must be going on to allow this to go on. A nation capable of reelecting Bush is a scary thing.

EN[i]GMA
09-22-2004, 06:14 PM
The PR machine is good. I'll give them that. People like you and me aren't the targets. They know were foregone. But they don't have to win the election - just make sure Kerry loses.

yeahwho
09-22-2004, 06:32 PM
Surreal. Mass hypnosis. Won't get Fooled Again, Again.

PS Great signature EN[i]GMA

Whois
09-23-2004, 10:48 AM
I hate people.

Welcome to the club...

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."

C.S. Lewis - The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment, Res Judicatae (June 1953).