Maroon Colored Glasses: Bush's approval ratings overseas

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Bush's approval ratings overseas

I was in the waiting room of a doctor's office today, and picked up a Readers' Digest from November. They had some polling data saying W's approval ratings in Europe started declining soon after his first inauguration, when he "dismissed global warming". This strikes me as funny in two ways: 1) WHO CARES WHAT EUROPE THINKS! 2) This actually made my approval of Bush go UP.

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