Posted on 09/10/2005 5:16:37 PM PDT by jmc1969
AN overwhelming majority of Britons believe that President George W Bush has mismanaged the response to Hurricane Katrina, a Sunday Times poll has found. Fully 86% of people said his handling of the crisis was “bad” or “very bad”, while 70% said he was a generally incompetent president.
By almost three to one, 63% to 23%, people think the response to the hurricane would have been speedier and more effective if most victims had been white and middle class. By 67% to 19% they think race and class divisions in America are as bad as ever.
The poll of a representative sample of 1,856 adults, carried out on September 8-9 by YouGov, the online pollsters, is the first major test of UK public opinion on the crisis.
The poll uncovers deep hostility to Bush; 57% agree and 23% disagree that he is “one of the worst presidents America has ever had”. By 66% to 18% they think he is generally “not trustworthy”, and by 68% to 21% that he is “not really concerned about the fate of ordinary people”.
The disaster has also hit America’s reputation more generally. By 63% to 20%, people said the Katrina aftermath and the Iraq violence showed America is “losing the ability to organise and run things”.
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I know how I feel. hehe.
And we care what they think? NOT!
What do they know? Only what the moronic media tells them. Bet they don't even know the hurricane hit Mississippi & Alabama.
So what? They only know what the Leftist/Marxist British and American Newsmedia have told them.
What do you expect? Euro's get spoonfed by BBC and CNN International (which is actually WORSE than CNN here)
WHO THE F@CK CARES, what the smelly-assed Brits think!!!
Well for starters, Britain is not Europe - I have been taught over and over again here in New Zealand.
But still, Americans should not care much of what British think because they have ZERO understanding of federalism as a concept. Some British know it though - I saw one comment at the just-wrecked Silent Running blog a Briton that "It is astonishing that my fellow Brits and *spit* Europeans* fail to appreciate that Bush could not do anything until after the Louisiana governor has given request.".
I agree.
Would the Brits like to fight about it? We whipped their butts twice before, and we can do it again.
Why is this article excepted? The Times permits full quotation.
A bit like all the Americans who are natural experts on Northern Ireland.
Remember when the sun never set on the British flag? Me either.
Briton's aen't qualified to carry Bush's (or my) jockstrap, much less Monday Morning QB how we respond to an emergency in our country.
The Poms don't get it ping!
And in an unreleased poll: 89% of Britons believe everything the BBC and the liberal press tells them.
"WHO THE F@CK CARES, what the smelly-assed Brits think!!!"
That's right and we don't care whatthe smelly-armpitted Frogs think either!
We have better allies in eastern and southern Asia.
And there must be no desire on our part to repair the relationship - old europe must decide that fate.
Meaningless. Brits don't know our government system or players (Blanco - Nagin) only Bush. Done only as a Bush hit piece.
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