America’s Bad Rep - Bush’s Austria trip has underscored just how much

[Jon8503]

Europeans dislike the U.S. president.
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By Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey
Newsweek
Updated: 5:47 p.m. CT June 21, 2006

Good news can fade fast. Last week George W. Bush enjoyed a slight bump in the polls—and, perhaps more importantly, a morale boost—with news of the death of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, a surprise trip to Baghdad and word that Karl Rove will not be charged in the CIA-leak investigation. But as Bush arrived in Austria on Tuesday night, the world looked very different. Although he's the first sitting U.S. president to visit the country in 27 years, one of the first things Bush saw from his speeding motorcade was a group of protesters flipping him the finger and struggling to unfurl a massive handmade sign. GO HOME, it read.

But it’s not just the American president feeling the brunt of unpopularity here in Vienna. When a group of reporters attempted to hail a cab outside the Hilton Vienna hotel (where the White House press corps is staying) on Tuesday night, one driver waved the group off with a string of anti-American expletives. Calling Bush a modern-day “Hitler,” the driver told the reporters they were “nasty Americans” and said he wouldn’t permit them to step foot into his car.

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[Minnesota Libra]

1. Ouch!!! The rest of us are judged to be just like him and..........

.....:grr:that's what I hate. I just wish people around the world would make the distinction between effing/Nazi neocons and those of us who believe in a Democratic way of life.

[Greeby]

2. Well, this is one European who ain't gonna take it on average Americans

Mainly coz I know you didn't elect this bastard either time :bounce:

[Jon8503]

3. Thanks Man. Looking forward to the time can visit over there and take

my wife to Heidelberg where I was for about 3 years. Have to wait a bit though. Cheers.

[JDPriestly]

4. Thanks for posting this.

It's good to know that the MSM is finally taking notice. Bush is the worst president we've ever had. His re-election does not speak well for what we like to think is our "democratic" process. Something did not function as it is supposed to according to theory. Bush should have been rejected by so many voters that no amount of cheating could have gotten him elected. It's not just the confidence of the world in the American government that Bush and the Republicans are destroying, it's confidence in us as a people and even more generally in the democratic process. How could we have sunk so low?

[Jon8503]

5. Couldn't say it any better, my thoughts as well. Tell me if I am wrong

but I put the biggest percentage of fault of Bush getting away with things including getting us into this war on the American Media's head. They never question him on anything and I also believe this is what you get when you have a corporate media versus a independent media.

People such as O'Donnell sitting in for numb-nuts on hardball is only interested in her self promotion so she kisses up to any body she thinks can help move her on up the ladder.

I blame the people for not paying attention.

I guess it is an entire combination of things but the media sucks the most I think.

[opihimoimoi]

6. The Media has become a major part of the GOP APPARATUS

to brainwash us with CRAP