Posted on 10/27/2004 4:08:40 AM PDT by Racehorse
European media are sending correspondents all over the United States in an effort to delve into the American psyche. . "We want to understand why so many people are still on Bush's side; it's a kind of mystery to us," said Peter Frey, Berlin bureau chief for ZDF television in Germany. "We are asking the American people, 'Why are you voting for Bush?' We want to understand why he has this support."
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Some Europeans support Bush, and they are equally as transfixed by the election. In Poland, one of a handful of Eastern Europe countries that sent troops to Iraq, people are following the race with unprecedented attention, worrying that a Bush defeat could have negative consequences for a nation that so controversially backed him. . "If Kerry wins, the antiwar countries in the European Union will say Bush lost because of Iraq, which means everyone who supported Bush in Iraq is also a loser," said Bartosz Weglarczyk, foreign editor at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest newspaper. "If Poland is seen as a loser on the debate on the war in Iraq, obviously, our position in the EU will be weakened."
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It's no mystery, euroeunuchs: It's American first now. Deal with your own problems for a while.
boo friggen hoo
No need to travel, Fritz. Just read Anti-Americanism, by Jean Francois Revel, and it all shall become clear. At a fraction of the cost.
Of course if you feel the need to come and meddle personally...
I sure would like to speak with one columnist. The one from The Guardian, named Brooker.
They don't seem to mind when we save the butts from Germany or the Soviets.
We should send Newt Gingrich to Germany, and tell them that if they don't elect him chancellor or whatever their head honcho position is, that there will be 'serious consequences' and ask them why they object.
"F--- Europe."
Roger that!
Well... you started out in the right direction but took a PC left turn in your analysis. They are not "coming over here" to understand a thing. They all have a mind like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. Exactly as our domestic socialist neocoms. The are coming over here to meddle.
Not quite as admirable.
Don't write off all of Europe. The Poles and other victims of the USSR don't deserve that.
My answer to the French:We probably like Bush for the same reason the French like Jerry Lewis!
Perhaps the Begian general population is beginning to realize they'll need American help again...to expel the Islamofascists!
Remember, this is their media saying this. It may very well be true, but all Socialists lie, big time.
Funny, that's the same thing I thought about Schroeder.
Tell them they might get it when they see some of their own buildings crumble upon themselves with living Germans still inside. Then again, they are obtuse...
Keep the champagne on ice. It doesn't look like we'll know who's the President on Nov. 2nd, even if Bush won in a landslide, the Commiecrats will still challenge it.
me, too. I can't see myself giving a rat's a**
In case I was looking for another reason to vote for Bush.
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