Canadians really hate George W. Bush. I cannot think of another American president so disliked. In fact, many of us in a recent online poll said we would call him the anti-Christ if given the opportunity.
We hate Bush so much we've ranked the president and his administration as more of a threat to world peace than Communist North Korea, and before the war in Iraq we were pretty much split on whether or not he was more dangerous than Saddam Hussein."
After examining the reasons, he concludes:
But what bothers me about these reasons is they are misleading. Most of the young people I've talked to who hate Bush (and there's a lot) don't really hate him because of his policies; they hate him because of his style.It's a media values world we live in.
If it were smooth-talking Bill Clinton or the eloquent Al Gore lying to his people and the world, far fewer Canadians would be upset. Despite doing many of the same terrible things Bush has been accused of, Clinton never received one-tenth the anger, or more importantly, pressure that Bush has received.
That's the real shame. That for many Canadians, style still matters so much more than substance.
