"Bubba" sightings in the international press and selected blogs.

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Bush Agenda Reaching Critical Mass Hysteria

Bubba Cheney claims that "Kerry is making it up!" and that Kerry should "name names" when in reality John Kerry doesn't need to say anything at all: the newspapers have the whole story.

Start with one of Bushes ex-staunch ally, Spain,

"The International Herald Tribune recently quoted Zapatero as saying, 'We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.' "

Spain, check!

Now let's talk about Venezuela:

"Chavez, who survived a brief coup in 2002, has called President Bush "stupid" and accused the United States of plotting to overthrow him. He actively courts U.S. foes like Cuba and Iran."

Venezuela, check!

How about our friends the Brits?

"George Osborne, a Conservative member of the British Parliament from the plummy depths of Cheshire by way of Oxford and a Dean Rusk fellowship at Davidson College in North Carolina, declares himself "a signed-up, card-carrying Bush fan." But last month in Britain's Spectator he wrote: "If Britain could vote this November, no one doubts what the result would be. Kerry would win by a landslide. He'd win votes across the board. Not just on the Left, but on the Right, too. In fact, Kerry would probably get more votes in the Tory shires and suburbs than he would from Labor's urban heartlands. Because here is the truth that dare not speak its name: Many Conservatives don't much like Bush."

Indeed, Osborne wrote, "Bushites are a minority." On his own benches in the House of Commons, Osborne reported, one colleague told him: "Bush is a man who might wail at the moon — I don't feel comfortable with him, unlike Kerry."


And in a more aggregate picture:

"On Tuesday, the nonpartisan Pew Research Center released a survey showing widespread alienation with Bush's policies among residents of eight European, Asian and African countries.

Conducted between Feb. 19 and March 3 -- before last week's attack in Madrid -- the survey found that at least half of those surveyed in each country had unfavorable views of Bush, ranging from 57 percent in Britain to 96 percent in Jordan.
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So I come back to the question: who backs Bush, other than "il duce" or perhaps Heiser? If Bush has some foreign backers, he should name names!


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