People in Britain view the United States as a vulgar, crime-ridden society obsessed with money and led by an incompetent president whose Iraq policy is failing, according to a newspaper poll.Sounds about right, I'd say. And I hope Chimpie takes it very, very personally. They hate him, man.
With much of the worst criticism aimed at the US adminstration, the poll showed that 70 percent of Britons like Americans a lot or a little. President George W. Bush fared significantly worse, with just one percent rating him a "great leader" against 77 percent who deemed him a "pretty poor" or "terrible" leader.And how is it that so many Britons see through this bastard's rhetoric by good ol' Americans continue to be fooled again and again and again.
More than two-thirds who offered an opinion said America is essentially an imperial power seeking world domination. And 81 per cent of those who took a view said President George W Bush hypocritically championed democracy as a cover for the pursuit of American self-interests.I'd say that the British know a little something about imperial power, wouldn't you?
Oh, the irony! Happy 4th of July!
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The amount of goodwill that we have lost is staggering. What it does to me is really sink in the fact that we are really really little creatures spinning around merciliessly on this big blue ball, hurtling through space. It's a strange thought really and it somehow comforts me. We're on a big blue ball, whipping around a great big round furnace, which is in turn whizzing about a cluster of stars, the Milky Way, at such a staggering speed no human mind can grasp. And if that's not enough, this cluster of stars is palyfully soaring amongst other such clusters, which are also clustered to other clusters and so on. Light, if earth could hold it, makes it around the earth about 7 times per second. Stars are rarely closer than one light year from each other. 7 times around the earth in one second, imagine a year. When we look into the night sky and see the cloud called the Milky Way, it appears as a cloud, but it's made up of stars, so far away they appear as nothing but blurred out pips crammed together. That's all pretty damn big. Of course, even as itty-bitty little creatures, cute and fuzzy as we are, we still have to suck it up with this son of a bitch. Man, we've got some serious work ahead of us. I hope there are enough out there who know this. It's all just so much space between the clouds, so much milk in a starry sky.
Whatever happened to the rebellious spirit of 1776? What are so many Americans so in awe of authority? Why is it that non person should be permitted the exercise of power without constantly demonstrating that he or she is worthy of it?
Too many grownups for some reason need to have a big daddy to tell them what to do.
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