lowercase thought.
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
так! I mean, ні!
Well, I've finally found it. Proof that President Bush is the lightning-rod for anti-Americanism. And no, I'm not talking about the raving-mad canucks banging their hockey sticks against the walls of Government House in Ottawa or the Colombian coffee-bean (wink) farmers who, in their pity for us poor Blue Staters, thought they could bust a few caps in his ass.
A right-wing friend of mine who shall remain nameless recently tried to convince me that the impression that Americans are less well-liked by the world because of Bush has been completely over-blown by the Liberal Media(tm).
Well, I submit to you the following:
Background: For those of you who crawled under a rock since Nov. 2nd or refuse to watch CNN for fear of missing "My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss", there's a bit of what I like to call a "Florida 2000" mess going on in Ukraine--putting the East-West post-Cold War relationship over hot coals.
Anyways, to make a long story short the scary thing here is that the government/Russian-backed campaign of Viktor Yanukovich felt it a good political attack to tie his opponent Viktor Yushchenko (who is western-leaning, as in towards Poland, Romania and the EU) to Bush. The fact that it's now an effective tactic in domestic politics across the world to tie one's opponent to the American Monkey marks a sad day in the moral supremacy of the United States (just ask Jose Maria Aznar).
There's an easy way to relate to this from our standpoint: Imagine the same poster with the forehead, mouth and torso of John Kerry with a donkey behind him, and the ripped out eyes and nose of Jacques Chirac and the French Tri-Couleur.
In other words, our President has become the new Frenchie Bastard of the world. Come to think of it, maybe we should've countered the "Kerry looks French" thing with "Bush looks Ukrainian".
A right-wing friend of mine who shall remain nameless recently tried to convince me that the impression that Americans are less well-liked by the world because of Bush has been completely over-blown by the Liberal Media(tm).
Well, I submit to you the following:
Background: For those of you who crawled under a rock since Nov. 2nd or refuse to watch CNN for fear of missing "My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss", there's a bit of what I like to call a "Florida 2000" mess going on in Ukraine--putting the East-West post-Cold War relationship over hot coals.
Anyways, to make a long story short the scary thing here is that the government/Russian-backed campaign of Viktor Yanukovich felt it a good political attack to tie his opponent Viktor Yushchenko (who is western-leaning, as in towards Poland, Romania and the EU) to Bush. The fact that it's now an effective tactic in domestic politics across the world to tie one's opponent to the American Monkey marks a sad day in the moral supremacy of the United States (just ask Jose Maria Aznar).
There's an easy way to relate to this from our standpoint: Imagine the same poster with the forehead, mouth and torso of John Kerry with a donkey behind him, and the ripped out eyes and nose of Jacques Chirac and the French Tri-Couleur.
In other words, our President has become the new Frenchie Bastard of the world. Come to think of it, maybe we should've countered the "Kerry looks French" thing with "Bush looks Ukrainian".
