Global Polls

According to a recent poll taken by 10 of the world's leading newspapers, including the London Guardian, Japan's Asahi Shimbun, France's LeMonde, Canada's La Presse and Australia's Sydney Morning Herald there is a profound overall disillusionment with the U.S. and a contempt for the Bush administration. The British, closest historically to Americans, would vote 50% for Kerry and 22 percent for Bush. Sixty percent say they don't like Bush. That figure rises to 77% among those under 25 years old.
South Korea showed a 66% support for Kerry due to fears of a pre-emptive strike against North Korea, that would also threaten the south.
British commentators are openly questioning Bush's mental stability. Columnist Andrew Stephen wrote, "George Bush often searches an agonizingly long time, sometimes in vain, for the right words. His mind simply blanks out at crucial times. He is prone, I am told, to foul-mouthed temper tantrums in the White House. His handlers now rarely allow him to speak an unscripted word in public."
So far, by most accounts, these feelings are directed at this administration and not at the American people. But I think that if we elect this administration for four more years that hostility will be directed at the American people. We must wake up even if this administration can't or won't.