Posted on 01/13/2009 8:22:08 AM PST by meandog
A lot has been written about George W Bush's unpopularity around the globe - but what about those places where the outgoing president was popular?
As he leaves office with a record high domestic disapproval rate - 73%, according to an October ABC News/Washington Post poll - President George W Bush can perhaps take some comfort from the fact that this feeling is not uniformly shared abroad.
While the shoe-throwing incident in Iraq may come to symbolise the world's opinion of a president who is often referred to as the worst in America's history, some corners of the world will miss the 43rd president of the United States.
He has approval ratings of around 80% in Africa, according to some polls, and in Kosovo a main street was named after him to thank him for supporting Kosovo's independence.
"It is generally accepted in the US that Bush has generated hatred for America around the world," says Peter Berkowitz, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution.
"But the picture is not black and white," he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
...I’m sure he did. I think it was the Zero. When I saw it, I thought: “WWWWWhat??? Ohhh.” That’s a reason I don’t like nicnames, except gargoyle...
Reagan had one major weapon against the MSM that W didn't: his ability to go "over their heads" by his communication skills. Plus, as noted, Reagan stayed with his conservative principles more consistently.
That's why he was able to to leave office with the GOP in reasonably good shape, whereas W wasn't.
Almost every article I see about the UK today is about the rampant Islamofascism, rampant promiscuity, and rampant crime against which ordinary law-abiding citizens have no legal defense.
I first noticed the de-moralization of the UK when "the Peoples' Princess" met her ignominious death - and we witnessed the Oprah-ized British public take part in that bathetic spectacle of heaping teddy bears and flowers into sodden piles.
As Peter Hitchens (Christopher's conservative brother) noted in his excellent 1999 book, "The Abolition of Britain," wethe catastrophic changes in British culture were on view on the occasion of Diana's funeral...
The society they [traditional British social conservatives] now lived in, where the word of television was law, suddenly allowed only one point of view to be expressed, and it was not theirs......This dictatorship of grief [was] wielded by a powerful media elite...the lens of television was sending society a picture [] that was dishonest and designed to encourage only one set of ideas about what was good--in politics, humour, architecture, foreign affairs, charity, fashion, education and morals.
Germany and GB are big disappointments. I guess their MSM is as pathetic as ours.
People apparently forget that a big part of why we had W. in the first place is that after eight years of Clinton, people were waxing nostalgic of George H. W. Bush, a one term President that wasn't too popular when he left office.
I miss him already.
Yeah I know he wasn’t Regan, but I think that from 9/11/01 he was the VERY BEST man we could have had in the White House.
I, for one am eternally grateful for his never wavering or pandering for popularity in his goal to keep us all safe.
God Bless him.
Reagan wasn’t abandoned by the purist punks in his party when he out-foxed and frustrated the Democrats by proposing and getting much smaller tax increases or bigger deficits. For some reason the 2000 Republicans have lost touch with political reality and cling like spoiled children to their single issues.
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