Bush scores...
- From: ostap_bender_1900@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:41:04 -0700 (PDT)
.... unusually high in the latest poll.
Appears that USA is considered no more of a rogue nation of evil than
Iran and Pakistan. I guess you can fool about 23% of the people all of
the time.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080616/ts_nm/worldleaders_trust_dc
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush is ranked only
slightly above the rulers of Pakistan and Iran as one of the least-
trusted leaders in the world, a survey released on Monday showed.
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The survey, carried out by WorldPublicOpinion.org in 20 countries
around the world, found that no national leaders inspired wide
confidence outside their own countries. But Bush, Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ranked at
the bottom, the polling showed.
Only 23 percent of people outside the United States had "a lot or
some" confidence in Bush, compared to 22 percent for Ahmadinejad and
18 percent for Musharraf.
The leaders of other countries fared little better. Only 26 percent
had confidence in French President Nicolas Sarkozy, 28 percent in
Chinese President Hu Jintao, 30 percent in British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown and 32 percent in Russian President Vladimir Putin, who
has since become prime minister.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had the highest confidence levels,
at 35 percent.
"While the worldwide mistrust of George Bush has created a global
leadership vacuum, no alternative leader has stepped into the breach,"
said Steven Kull, director of WorldPublicOpinion.org. "Hu Jintao and
Vladimir Putin are popular among some nations, but more mistrust them
than trust them."
WorldPublicOpinion.org is a project involving research centers around
the world and is managed by the Program on International Policy
Attitudes at the University of Maryland.
The group polled 19,751 people in nations that represent 60 percent of
the world's population. The survey was conducted between January 10
and May 6, with margins of error of plus or minus 2 to 4 percent.
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