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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Doesn't work like that - a majority selected him, so you are dealing with the majority or most of America.
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This is just flat out wrong.
1. There were about 50 million Americans who voted for Bush in 2000. Not only is this not a majority of Americans, it is not even a majority of people eligible to vote.
2. The U.S. president is determined by electoral votes, and it was this "majority" of votes, the electoral votes, that matters, and it was this majority that Bush won. He lost the popular vote, and therefore a majority of voters did not elect him (this is significant only in that it refutes your assertion completely; it is not a critique of the US electoral system and the electoral majority that was what elected Bush).
Thus your assertion collapses completely under the weight of logic and facts alone. But let's set this aside for the moment and consider the findings from the Pew Global Attitudes Project for 2005 that was conducted across 16 countries to guage from another angle whether or not people who "hate Bush hate the US'; to quote from its findings:
Anti-Americanism in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, which surged as a result of the U.S. war in Iraq, shows modest signs of abating. But the United States remains broadly disliked in most countries surveyed, and the opinion of the American people is not as positive as it once was.
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Indeed, opinion of the U.S. continues to be mostly unfavorable among the publics of America's traditional allies, except Great Britain and Canada. Even in those two countries, however, favorable views of the U.S. have slipped over the past two years. Moreover, support for the U.S.-led war on terror has plummeted in Spain and eroded elsewhere in Europe.
And with the stage set, we now come to the heart of the matter:
Roughly three-quarters of the publics in Germany (77%), Canada (75%) and France (74%) say Bush's re-election has made them feel less favorable toward the U.S. And particularly in Western Europe, most of those who express an unfavorable view of the U.S. mostly blame Bush, rather than a more general problem with America.
So what to make of all of this? Well for one, the arguement put forward by Subman1 and August that "if you hate Bush you hate the US because we elected him" is a fallacy; yet the fallacy aside, in recent years more and more people have begun to dislike the US and the reason most of the people surveyed in country's traditionally alligned with the U.S. dislike the US
is Bush. So you guys have it completely backward
By the way, here's the link for the Pew Global Attitutudes Project if anyone is interested in it:
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=247