I travel a great deal for work and pleasure. So I hear allot of friendly opinions about America and our presidents. Going back...most said kind/polite things about Carter and GHW Bush. Most of the foreigners I encountered really liked Reagan and Clinton. They were well respected by the world community. But GW Bush is seen as a laughing stock for the most part outside our shores.
I have to admit, it does embarrass me when he is at major conferences with foreign leaders, and they all express themselves better in English than he does. Just last week, when talking about our support for the president of Iraq, best he could say was "He's our guy". That's a great phrase in front of the local press for a high school coach picking a starting quarterback, but is this all he has to say about supporting the leader of a country where we have over 150,000 troops stationed? And have lost 3,000 soldiers?
I won't even get into the "decider" or "My pet Goat" moments.
2006-12-03 02:01:33 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
"Hm... I dont..know, I think human beings and fish can live together peacefully..."
What else can a guy like that be but embarrassing.
Even if his policies were sound and uncontroversial, other people do expect their leaders to be at least fluent in their own language, and to make sense, even if our own Taoiseach is a borderline case there.
May be it's a contagious disease, and he caught it from Berty Ahern at one of these Patricksday dos?
Any way, in my experience Bush has done more damage to the international reputation of the USA than any of its leaders before.
He is using up all the "moral credit" the US used to have in Europe, and he is using up the literal credit as well, to finance a war that has destroyed the lives of millions of people and is profiting only a very small gang of industry bosses, speculants and politicians who all have enormous wealth already.
2006-12-03 02:26:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
I am an American and I am not embarrassed. I am appalled. Clinton was an embarrassment and we can get over an embarrassment as the world has. With George Bush he is responsible for to many deaths to be an embarrassment, his policy's, his intelligence and his demeanor are all appalling, he should be charged by the international community for his crimes against humanity. Not laughed at. No one since Hitler has been so personally involved in more war crimes.
2006-12-03 10:32:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I see that John goes Bigot right out of the starting gate! Good Job, John!
As I travel the world, I get the same response. My wife and I have spoken to people from around the world, and most of them tell us that they love America, they love Americans and wish they could visit again when government policies revolving around tourists relax.
They say American people are always kind and giving and gracious. But Mr Boosh is a bomb thrower of severe magnatute. They always ask why we voted for him.
7% of Americans have passports. 50% of them have ever been used. We world travelers, who ventured outside of Epocot, know what and its people is really like.
2006-12-03 10:12:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Bush has destroyed the reputation of our country to the point it will take decades to repair..His manner of speaking is so poor that only a Texan can understand.. but he uses it in Diplomacy..
Its no wonder that both American and international historians are already calling him the worst world leader ever..and that's a hard list to make!!
2006-12-03 10:25:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
To this American he is. The republican party should be ashamed for fronting this man as President. It should be obvious without a script in front of our President, the man is an idiot. That leads me to believe he is just a puppet for the more powerful people (his daddy) who really run the republican party. In your lifetime can you remember such a dunce running our country? Gerald Ford was clumsy, but he was no idiot. George W. Bush the man is at best a moron. As President, an utter failure to the American people. As the most powerful business person in America, a complete success for the hidden powers that be.
2006-12-03 10:22:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Umm...who cares what others think about us.
Their opinion of our president doesn't make the world go round...the dollar does.
I'm sure if I were to speak out about leaders of other countries, the citizens of those countries wouldn't give it a second thought, because it doesn't matter.
2006-12-03 10:22:03 · answer #6 · answered by El Bubba 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Oh please.
People who post questions like this, and at the same time perpetrate "gangsta" in their profile, seem rather conflicted to me.
Also, three of the four questions you've posted are really negative statements about the president and his administration, so it would seem that you have an agenda.
And GWB talked like this during both of his campaigns and still got elected. I guess the majority of voters don't mind him referring to other world leaders as "our guy."
2006-12-03 10:34:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Bush just want to try
if his ideas do not work then is good for history study for future
leader. American do not embarrass as long as it not war crime
2006-12-03 10:25:01 · answer #8 · answered by kimht 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
We only have 2 years left! I'm hanging in there. He was able to speak a few levels above a tree stump years ago. I think there is something neurologically wrong with him. You know, we had a president with Alzheimer's in Regan, I think the same type of thing is happening now.
2006-12-03 10:07:23 · answer #9 · answered by marie 7 · 3⤊ 5⤋
Hatred is an Embarrassment to Americans .
And I hope that those who've spent soooooo much time Hating, now realize the errors of their ways .
2006-12-03 10:10:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋