Has the U.S.Presidency become a laughinstock of the world and

[KlatooBNikto]

only the military might of the U.S. is delaying the inevitable irrelevance of this office?

A man as ignorant as Bush ascends to his office without any popular support bolstered by the creation of a fraudulent persona that is unraveling each day;his defiance of the UN elicits silent stares; and, his parading of an obvious criminal as the PM of Iraq is proof, if proof were needed, of his arrogance.He claims to represent a democracy, while trashing the Constitution that he is sworn to uphold.No one respects him.No one believes a word he says.No one expects any decent act to come from him.

He has consigned this august office to an irrelevance from which it will take decades to recover.Meanwhile, he continues his merry ways of destruction, completely unaware that he and the Presidency have become a laughingstock of the world.

[JuniperLea]

1. ermmmmmm

yes

[Carla in Ca]

15. Maybe that is why rrumor has it that China

is to be the next super-power...yikes!

[whistle]

2. Not the U.S. Presidency, but the resident of the White House....

...George W Bush has become the laughing stock of the world and an imbrassement to Americans. Bush's October surprise should be his resignation and admission that he mislead America into a completely unecessary and foolish adventure in Iraq and he should expose all the primary players who backed him up on this. That would be the only sane thing for Dubya to do.

[rainy]

3. If someone like him, so obviously flawed, can go so far,

how do we ever expect to get the truth out if the repubs ever offer a more intelligent candidate? The fact that Bush is so transparent to most of the rest of the world how will we ever win if they pick a better candidate next time? I can't believe this man can be so supported by anyone in the USA. The media must be stopped. They are the sole problem.

[donco6]

4. While I agree with you in general . . .

. . . I don't think this part is true:

"No one respects him.No one believes a word he says.No one expects any decent act to come from him."

There are quite a few who believe anything the idiot says. Sadly.

[KlatooBNikto]

6. I was referring to the sane people outside of the US.

[donco6]

10. So is it something in our air, water? What?

What is causing this delusion that's so clearly transparent to others in Europe, et al., but not here?

[KlatooBNikto]

11. It is our delusion that we have the only Democracy in the world,

ignoring countries like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Canada and many others who practise what they preach without swaggering about the world that it is our way or the higheway.

[rock]

5. No. I don't believe so. The presidency is still respected.

However, bushsucks* is a luaghingstock of the world.

[KlatooBNikto]

8. The respect you refer to is no longer the respect that people the

world over gave to this institution because of what it stood for.The respect you refer to is the fear that someone feels toward a bully and a thug.Quite a difference, I would say.

[lanparty]

7. More like a "loathingstock"

There are people in the world that word be afraid to mock Bush openly. The man IS seriously powerful and he can fuck you in PLENTY of legal ways just by using his influence. This is why Atrios remains anonymous. He wants to keep his day job.

[JSJ]

9. we couldn't keep electing buffoons, forever- w/o some snickering occuring

[Gyre]

12. I think they're scared of US;

as well they should be. We're a loose cannon knocking the shit out of anything we hit and nobody can stop us. They just watch us careening off around the world fucking everything up that we touch and wonder "What happened to the American people? This is their president; they must like him for him to remain in elected office."

If we don't directly attack them they will get damaged by the environment we're willfully fucking up. I'll stick to "scared".

Gyre

[LisaLynne]

17. Just what I was going to post.

I think they might, as we do, be able to laugh at Bush as a person, because he's such a doofus, but because of his position and the people he's got around him, he's too scary to laugh at all the time.

He can do too much damage.

[karlrschneider]

13. Gort. :-)

I think it's Boosh who's on the receiving end of most of the scorn...but of course some of it inevitably rubs on us all, and that's unfortunate. I have many friends in other countries and the only complaint they have with me personally is that I "allowed" this idiot to be "elected." It takes a LOT of explanation, but usually I'm able to persuade them that we're not all asholes (pointing out the popular vote, +half a million for Gore helps but it makes them a little crazy trying to figure out how he could have "lost" with that result.)

[BonjourUSA]

14. From this curious WH resident we'll keep in our mind that...

the Americans are able to elect such a President and of course they'll do it again. I believe nothing will be like before because we'll keep in our memory that the USA could be a danger.

[Swede]

16. How did someone that branded people in university get to be president?

How did such a lightweight intellect get so far?

[BonjourUSA]

18. aren't the USA an elective monarchy ?

With the great families like aristocracy.... If you want we can restore some guillotines :)