Sure Reagan pissed a few Brits off for one reason or another as did Bush Snr as did Clinton, just as Chirac has as did Mitterand as did Kohl, Bush Jnr is outstanding in that he’s managed to join a clear if not overwhelming majority of the British public and save for the all important Blair nearly all our politicians against him that takes talent, you know come to think of it maybe that’s what he was talking about with all this “I’m a uniter not a divider” shit.Axis Kast wrote:Regan long suffered the ire of those who wanted to speed the development of a European community as well. Not to mention that his relationship with Thatcher was wracked in ’82 by the poor fashion in which the United States handled the Falklands Crisis.
Well seeing as how most of the UK population seem to dislike Bush and as by no means is most of the UK’s population intellectual it’s only to be expected that many of Bush’s British decorators won’t be intellectuals.I didn’t say that it could. There are many reasons for intellectuals to dislike George Bush. On the other hand, the overwhelming majority of those who profess dislike of Bush are not intellectuals.
What exactly is your point, that significant sections of the population don’t follow the news as much as say for example regular contributors to sd.net N&P? That’s hardly a blinding insight, if on the other hand you are trying to suggest that Bush haters are less likely to be “intellectuals” than bushophiles then my personal experience in real life, on the net would suggest otherwise and I’d be interested to see some substantiation.
Most UK detractors do however know that he was one of the main guys pushing to invade Iraq and they dislike him for this reason (I know you disagree with them but its still a clear reason to dislike him), others dislike his anti-environmentalism and so forth,Most of his detractors know very little about his actual policies, and prefer to parrot the silly by-lines of professional protestors and media pundits.
Well I really couldn’t comment one a couple of new Yorkers you met on holidayCase-in-point: on a recent vacation to the Caribbean, I met two New Yorkers who insisted that Bush had purposely dropped the ball on 9/11. They then proceeded to tell me that they would vote Republican in the next election to punish the Democrat, Bush.
Remind me when did I hold Europe up to be a paragon of liberalism? I’m not at all sure I ever did anyways in comparison to Bush on the whole it is, even the British Conservative party has now accepted gay civil partnerships and is actively chasing the pink voteAs for Bush’s social policies and religious beliefs, I remind you that Europe is hardly the paragon of liberalism you hold them up to be.
Religion is “strong in Europe” is it? I was under the impression that religion was weaker in Europe than practically anywhere else in the world, please do correct me if I’m wrong but which significant country is more secular than the EU?Religion is still strong in Europe – especially in Southern Europe, including Spain, France, and Italy.
I don’t think you Americans realise just how weird it is for us to hear your politicians going on about god and their faith all the time, people simply don’t do that in Britain nor do they in my rather more limited experience in the rest of Europe and it really freaks us out.
His stance on contraception in Africa is a direct source of anger for some, his homophobia is for others by which I mean non-political gays us “right on” tolerant types already hate Bush for any number of other reasons, I know a few British Methodists who dislike him for giving Methodism a bad nameI really doubt that Bush’s social agenda is the true cause of people’s anger, but rather more ammunition they can use against him.
