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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It has become trendy to hate GWB. I suppose he got off on the wrong foot with a lot of the lefty's in the world when he saw through thier eco propaganda and refused to join up to the Kyoto cobblers.
I don't personally take any notice of the torrents of anti Bush, or indeed anti anyone propaganda, I prefer to do a bit of research and arrive at my own conclusion.
Given he was elected I guess a fair proportion of Americans must think he's ok. For what it's worth I think if he'd lost either of his opponenets you'd be in far worse state than now. Kerry and Gore would both have been a disaster.
What I dislike is the way he has formulated American foreign policy, ignoring and denegrating others rights in pursuance of his and America's ideals.
American people I generally find to be very nice people, and I think it is very unfortunate that they are "served" by a president who does their countries reputation and standing in the world so much harm with the majority of ordinary people (we can forget the psychophant Blair).
What surpised me was he was re-elected with a bigger vote than before when he stole the first election with help from little brother. So I dont know how much he really is hated in the USA by his own citizens.
Shshhh rojash, don't say that. You may be called a lefty for being anti GWB. Oops there I said it. It's a cheap tactic used by certain individual to label any anti Bush as lefties and let this moron government to get away with whatever they can. That really sucks!
I thought GWB got elected because of his majority vote by their electoral system (not quite sure what it's called) and not election votes??? And what about the scandal regarding the removal of votes from the database in the first election?
he's not hugely popular abroad, mostly because he seems ignorant of and uninterested in the rest of the world. I'm not sure today's photos of him playing cricket will really help.
Like Reagan, he's often seen as a fool. I doubt that he is; unlike Blair, I suspect he's pretty much what he seems: personally genial, often tongue-tied with words (the British would never elect a leader who didn't speak well, but Americans seem okay with it), religious, and willing to let his cabinet get on with it (again unlike Blair, who interferes a lot). He seems to have the common touch, which Blair hasn't.
But his policies, particularly the military misjudgments over Iraq, have made both him and his country unpopular pretty much everywhere. America is seen as a bully, and people take a certain pleasure seeing in seeing individuals on the ground, such as Iraqi militants, thwart a nuclear superpower, even while they deplore the individuals' aims.
For what it's worth, Clinton remains very popular all round the world. His sexual indiscretions don't bother anyone much - as, it turned out when he was impeached, they didn't actually bother Americans who didn't belong to the Republican Party. But he, unlike Bush, was always interested in the wider world.