[kayak]

Rarely has a leader of the Western world started out with lower expectations among opinion formers; rarely have the latter been proved wrong so thoroughly and so soon.

You mean someone in the media finally admits that "opinion formers" (whatever, whoever they are) were wrong rather than saying that President Bush changed?!

WOW! That's progress!

I will be even more pleased when they refer to him as President Bush rather than Mr. Bush ......

[Southern Federalist]

Brit papers call everybody "Mr." except Crowned Heads. Clinton was Mr. even while President, Blair is Mr., Thatcher was Mrs.

[ohioWfan]

WOW! That's progress!

Boy, that's the truth! But do you think the American press will ever be brave enough to admit how wrong they were about President Bush??

btw, I find him very interesting, whether the Europeans call him cosmopolitan or not. And why, may I ask, did they find that sleazy ill-bred bumpkin from Arkansas interesting and cosmopolitan, and not the well-bred, high class Harvard MBA? .........Because they're bloody fools perhaps? :o)