I think they should -
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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The Iraqis likes us more then any public in Western Europe.
They can't quite get over the days when the United States were 13 crown colonies of Great Britain (not quite United Kingdom yet at the time).
Not as bad as the Britts bungled the Battle of New Orleans.
So what? Propagandized by the BBC, they'll believe almost anything.
Someone should inform them that our 50 States are Sovereign Entities and George Bush is not King. Oh, never mind, we need to start here with our MSM.
I once read that the reason "the sun never sets on the British empire is because God doesn't trust an englishmen in the dark."
It was apparently written some time ago.
Europe gets much of its news coverage about the USA from CNN International and BBC. 'Splains alot.
Is Britain really that far gone?
You now understand why the Australians call the Brits "whinning Pommies".
Ping!
If Britons think that Bush bungled the Katrina crisis, than that is evidence that the MSM is bungling the news.
How'd you get so smart about it?
Yes it is. It is not even the Thatcherite Britain.
When you live next to a group of people (Euroepan New Zealanders) that are essentially still British in character and outlook for more than half your life, you start to understand them to the extent of seeing how bad they are. The British are very similar to New Zealanders except their conservatives are marginally stronger.
I bothered reading this article because I'm still trying find out what President Bush is supposed to have done wrong. An entire article about it being Bush's fault, yet not one mention of what he's supposed to have done wrong. Could somebody please tell me what he did wrong? Anybody?
It is truly amazing at how much power and liberty "the people" keep demanding the federal government take, which of course they do. Every time I hear its all Bush's fault I hear a weak, cowardice voice that is begging for a tyrannical all powerful central government. They act and talk like the President of the United States of America is and should be a dictator ignoring the rights, duties and responsibilities of local and state government.
I wonder how the brits would respond to someone asking what they would do in a similar situation. Would the notice the rising water and calmly move to higher ground or would they explode into an orgy of vandalism, violence, and theft.
It is natural for the Poms to think along this line. The United Kingdom is a unitary state and for a long time everything important has been dictated from London, except some local council matters like cleaning public toilets or police managing.
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