Influential leaders throughout Latin America still dislike President Bush but are shunning ideological extremes and embracing Chile's moderate socialist President Ricardo Lagos as a pragmatic model for the region, according to a poll commissioned ahead of a Miami gathering this week.
Why the word "but"?
Anyway, what Chile and South America need is Pinochet back in power.
Dear President Bush.
You know all that huge stock of POLITICAL CAPITAL Republicans bought for you in Novermber of 2004?
Hey - you should not have spent the whole wad on CAFTA.
Mr. President - YOU BROKE THE BANK SIR!
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More than 71 percent said they had a good or very good opinion of the United States.That trailed everybody except Arab nations.
Seventy-eight percent had a positive opinion of China, and the European Union obtained 95 percent approval.
Spain and France also got ratings of more than 90 percent.
Bush continued to be unpopular, with only 25 percent among the elites saying they had a very favorable or somewhat favorable view of him. Still, that represented an improvement. In 2003, Bush's positive rating was 12 percent.
Mexicans were the harshest in condemning Bush - 77 percent rated his job performance as poor. Zogby attributed that to Bush's failure to deliver a promised immigration accord with the United States.
They can't stand us yet they have no problem taking our jobs while their citizens pour in by the millions illegally. We need to do a better job of picking those we do business with.