"It gives me pride to be on this train to repudiate the human trash that is Bush," Maradona told reporters before approaching the dimly lit platform, where Boca Juniors soccer club fans greeted him with pounding drums and stadium chants.
Meanwhile, Vicente Fox, Dubya's spokesman in Mexico, has come up with the brilliant idea of excluding from the FTAA any country (read: Venezuela) that disagrees with his master. I wonder what Fox will propose to do with the huge majorities in all the other Latin American countries who also want no part of any deal that has Dubya's stench associated with it.
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Thanks for your comment, Mokawanis. Your sentiments towards Bush are shared by people worldwide. The latest comprehensive poll that I am aware of on Canadian attitudes towards things American was taken almost exactly one year ago, that is, just before Dubya's "re-'election.'" One could say, on the basis of that poll, that Bush’s approval rating in Canada at that time was about 17 percent. It is bound to have declined considerably since then, as it has in the US. Had Canadians, rather than Americans, been choosing between Bush and Kerry, Kerry would have garnered more than three times as many votes as Bush. As soon as you step outside the borders of the US, no matter where you go, nearly everyone hates Bush with a visceral hatred, and a part of the antagonism to his policies often springs from a hatred for the man himself as an unethical bully.
I think Bush is pretty much despised everywhere outside of America.
However, outsiders may not always be right: As far as I can ascertain Maggie Thatcher was acclaimed accross most of the world, but here in the UK we used to wake up each morning in dread, wondering what idiocy she'd decided today and how much worse life was going to get because of it. 15 years later & the Tory party still hasn't recovered any standing in the country.
Maybe the USA will get 15 years od Democrat rule following the Bush Debacle?
To Mrs Aginoth: The way I remember it, Margaret Thatcher was also universally despised, at least by the people who had heard of her. The only people who admired the Iron Lady (I prefer to call her "the Iron Maiden") were some of the neo-conservatives around Reagan, and they admired her for purely ideological rather than personal reasons. The reason one out of every three Americans still approves of the way Bush does his job has more to do with the peculiarly American jingoism that says "Our President, right or wrong," combined with the thorough ignorance and indifference of the great majority of Americans regarding the rest of the world. This ignorance and indifference is a phenomenon unique to the US, rooted in their "educational" system and reinforced by their mass media. Even their most “liberal” mainstream media are little more than pro-government propaganda outlets. Right-wing evangelical brainwashing, another phenomenon peculiar to the US, also plays an important part.
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Mrs. Aginoth:
Don't be so sure about the Bush debacle producing 15 years of Democratic rule. That would presume that the Democrats are able to get their heads out of their asses. I can't think of one Democrat I would vote for in 2008. I am from California. I believe that both political parties have failed the United States. The real winners are the corporations.
Canadian attitudes towards the US administration were measured recently by Environics... have a look here.
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