What I think about what these British "pollsters" think....
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”.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Thanks for posting that photo essay--very interesting--puts you right there and gives you a new perspective.
My family would be considered as Americanologists either in my place of birth (Hong Kong) or New Zealand. We come from a family with pre-Communist Chinese KMT ties (the government that moved to Taiwan in 1949 after the Communists won the war on mainland). My parents are both sympathetic to Taiwan and because dad is a scholar in history he went to Taiwan for researches and conferences about 2 times every year when we were in HK and they often bought back some education materials back from Taiwan for me to learn.
Taiwan during the 1970s and 80s accepted a lot of American influences in government, public, and cultural matters. Education materials talked a lot about America. From these I learned about Thanksgiving, US founders, the US Declaration of Independence, baseball, Emerson, T.S. Eliot, Helen Keller, in addition to the usual diets of American things everyone knows such as Hollywood and Coca-Cola. In fact it gives me an understanding of America that never appears on textbooks in Hong Kong (as a then British colony not too much about the United States was discussed at school) or New Zealand (most Kiwis don't even know who Benjamin Franklin or John Adams are, although they know William Gladstone or the Duke of Wellington).
We were also enthusiastic readers of the Chinese-language edition of Reader's Digest. In the 1980s and 90s the Chinese edition printed a lot of American conservative materials and stories of average America that got bypassed in the MSMs commonly available such as Time or Newsweek etc. I read articles from Michael Novak and many things like Reagan's policies, US domestic policies like Medicare described from an American point of view. This gave me some ideas of how the "other" America lives.
In addition, my brother is an immigrant to your country and he is to become a citizen next year. I learned about the US from the perspectives of someone who actually lives in your country. Something most New Zealanders don't have the privilege of.
So you can see where my knowledge of your country come from. ;-)
The London Times is considered the paper which people in position of power in Britain read and it is definitely not leftist by British standards. It seems Britain is slowly being New Zealandized.
Any recent changes in management or ownership at The Times lately?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1482103/posts
is this from the same publication?
It would have been much better if we'd followed your enlightened example and put the Irish in reservations.
He was a great man. Without Churchill we might have sat back and done nothing until the Nazis declared war on us, just like you did.
Who cares what Britain (formerly Great) thinks? Britain is symbolized by bad food, bad teeth, bad hygiene, and bad socialized medicine.
WTF cares what furriners think! They can't vote.
Who cares what they think?
That's because most of them have no concept of local vs. county vs. state vs. federal government, since they don't have that there.
This, folks, is your media a work. Aren't they something? If we have another disaster in this country, I'm willing to bet that people will shoot the reporters first.
Exactly.
Ask the people of the Cold War Soviet Union their opinion of the U.S. and they parroted back the only things they were told.
How many of those polled witnessed anything for themselves or talked to anyone firsthand who did? Not many, I'd wager.
What I think about what these British "pollsters" think....
Yeah, explain your tyranny, effing expert. Go on.
The British are, of course, experts on hurricanes, and know well the ins and outs of our Federalist system of government, as well as the intricacies of Louisiana politics.
Well, I retract my statement for all other Brits but that jerk. I don't think the Brits are tyrants. His snide answer just pissed me off.
Geez. I'm sure they would know.
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