You’re a failure, Mr. President, and the only way this country can get back on track is by putting you on the unemployment line.
They can keep the angry demonstrators far away from Bush’s speeches. They can jack up the polls with deceptive ads. But, so far at least, they can’t stop the opposition candidate, if he has the requisite nerve, from speaking the truth on live television.
(Excerpted from Scott Rosenberg’s weoblog [Managing Editor, Salon])
Having just spent two weeks on a small Greek island, it was amazing how many Greeks, when they found out I was an American, expressed exactly this opinion: we don’t hate you [as an American], we just hate what your government has done to the world.
A few months back, I met a fellow from Kosovo (doing a Masters degree in International Conflict Resolution) who felt that Bush Jr. was the best thing to happen to the States since sliced bread. In my experience living abroad these two years, he is in the vast minority of Europeans. Time and again, they say the same thing: it’s not you, it’s your government. It’s your government’s war. It’s your government’s disregard for international treaties and the inability of the United States to be a responsible citizen of the world.
I hope my ballot makes it here in time.