{"id":86,"date":"2004-09-10T10:16:59","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T14:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=86"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"bush-as-world-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Bush as world leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know what the world thinks of Bush&#8217;s leadership?  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/3640754.stm\">A new poll among 35 countries<\/a>, many of whom are our &#8220;allies&#8221; in Iraq, show what the world thinks of Bush, and whether they would prefer Kerry as president:<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top:10px; padding-top:0px; border-top-width:5px\">\n<tr>\n<th>Country<\/th>\n<th>Kerry<\/th>\n<th>Bush<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Norway:<\/td>\n<td>    74%<\/td>\n<td>7% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Germany:<\/td>\n<td>74%<\/td>\n<td>10% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>France: <\/td>\n<td>64%<\/td>\n<td>5% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Italy: <\/td>\n<td>58%<\/td>\n<td>14% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spain: <\/td>\n<td>45%<\/td>\n<td>7% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>UK: <\/td>\n<td>47%<\/td>\n<td>16% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Canada: <\/td>\n<td>61%<\/td>\n<td>16% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mexico: <\/td>\n<td>38%<\/td>\n<td>18% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brazil: <\/td>\n<td>57%<\/td>\n<td>14% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>China: <\/td>\n<td>52%<\/td>\n<td>12% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Japan: <\/td>\n<td>43%<\/td>\n<td>32% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Indonesia: <\/td>\n<td>57%<\/td>\n<td>34% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>India: <\/td>\n<td>34%<\/td>\n<td>33%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nToo bad they can&#8217;t vote, they are clearly more perspicacious than the sheep in this country who believe anything they are told.<\/p>\n<p>But Bush shouldn&#8217;t feel bad, the people in Nigeria and Poland prefered him (by slight margins)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know what the world thinks of Bush&#8217;s leadership? A new poll among 35 countries, many of whom are our &#8220;allies&#8221; in Iraq, show what the world thinks of Bush, and whether they would prefer Kerry as president: Country Kerry Bush Norway: 74% 7% Germany: 74% 10% France: 64% 5% Italy: 58% 14% Spain: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}