How much does the world hate George Bush? We might never know the true level of ill will towards our 43rd President but the hope for a new tomorrow is evidence that the citizens of the Earth are clamoring for a new leader of the (less) free world. They are smart enough to know that John McCain would simply be another George Bush and are hoping and praying that enough American voters know it too.
From The Huffington Post:
WASHINGTON — People around the globe widely expect the next American president to improve the country's policies toward the rest of the world, especially if Barack Obama is elected, yet they retain a persistently poor image of the U.S., according to a poll released Thursday.
The survey of two dozen countries, conducted this spring by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, also found a growing despondency over the international economy, with majorities in 18 nations calling domestic economic conditions poor. In more bad news for the U.S., people shared a widespread sense the American economy was hurting their countries, including large majorities in U.S. allies Britain, Germany, Australia, Turkey, France and Japan.
Even six in 10 Americans agreed the U.S. economy was having a negative impact abroad.
Views of the U.S. improved or stayed the same as last year in 18 nations, the first positive signs the poll has found for the U.S. image worldwide this decade. Even so, many improvements were modest and the U.S. remains less popular in most countries than it was before it invaded Iraq in 2003, with majorities in only eight expressing favorable opinions.
Substantial numbers in most countries said they are closely following the U.S. presidential election, including 83 percent in Japan _ about the same proportion who said so in the U.S. Of those following the campaign, optimism that the new president will reshape American foreign policy for the better is substantial, with the largest segment of people in 14 countries _ including the U.S. _ saying so.
American foreign policy in the last eight years has been abysmal at best. George Bush has destroyed all empathy, sympathy and general good feelings for the United States and burned it up like he has for every single endeavor in his life. The world, with myself included can only have dreamt that he had stayed on as General Owner for the Texas Rangers. A dimwitted Sammy Sosa trade is way better than the hell he has unleashed across the globe in such a short amount of time.
Here's to our next President, Barack Obama!
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