Sunday, September 09, 2007

We're going to need a lot of bleach and mops

To clean up the mess when Georgie leaves the White House:
When it comes to Europeans' views of US President George W. Bush, his war in Iraq, and his foreign policies, 77 percent disapprove of him and his policies, while 17 percent voiced approval. This compares with American views, which show an approval rate of 32 percent and disapproval rate of 63 percent, according to an August survey released by the Gallup Poll.

Teasing out whether the issue was the US war or Bush himself, the Europeans seemed divided in the trans-Atlantic survey, with 38 percent choosing the war and 34 percent Bush himself.

The survey, now in its sixth year, polled 1,000 people in 13 countries by telephone, including Britain, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Romania and the United States. It is administered by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a non-partisan policy institute, and the Compagnia di San Paolo, an Italian research foundation. The margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points.

2 comments:

Steve Bates said...

They should double the pay of the White House housekeeping staff... and the strength of the disinfectant they typically use.

I used to read Spiegel in German when I was in high school. I regret to report I read it in English now. (I can still just barely make it through the simpler articles auf Deutsch.)

Oh, and... poor Chancellor Merkel. Bush seems determined to hit on her in public. What a gesture of disrespect on his part. Does he think somehow she likes the attention? No wonder Laura suffers a pain in the neck.

ellroon said...

I think Merkel can handle herself. She certainly put Georgie in his place when he offered the backrub.

You are apparently either a buddy or someone to belittle in Georgie's book.