No, the reason they hang from his every word is that right now, George Bush is the world's only leader of stature, the only person in the world whose words have the power to change the reality on the ground. Regardless of what nation you point to, there is no one else who wields the power of the American president, more so today than ever, despite the juvenile mudslinging at home and abroad.
The words of no other man alive have the slightest power to compare to the words of George Bush, which is why, of course, the left-wingnuts have been digesting their own stomach linings for the last five years.
George W. Bush is more powerful than...Jacques Chirac?!
Somebody tell John Effin' Kerry...