Election time goes ever closer. Rational Bloggers (though arguably one could qualify them of bloggers with a liberal/democrat/environmentalist bias) try to cut through the media machinery that seems geared towards belittling Kerry’s character and try to show Bush’s in a truer light.

Daniel Wilson points us to a letter to the NYT editor which equates Bush to a PowerPoint person. Tufte argues, in a Wired editorial, that the standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch, that its pushy style seeks to set up a speaker’s dominance over the audience… Seems almost like a description of Bush’s attitude to me!

Elsewhere, at the Gadflyer to be precise (via Backup Brain, twice), more points are made that despite his tough, resolute attitude, Bush is not much more than a coward and flip-flopper.

One might argue that, since the USA are considered the most powerful and influential country in the world, foreign countries should have a say as to who the next US president should be because of the potential impact his/her administration could have on their own societies. That would be, of course, an intolerable interference in the American internal affairs. Yet, Philippe Martin in “The world against Bush” points us to an interesting study:

The French newspaper Libération writes: Georges W. Bush is lucky that the election of the world’s leader is reserved to a small part of its population: Americans. If the whole world could vote, John Kerry would be assured of a crushing victory.

Liberation based its article on a study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) from Maryland’s University, that was released on last Wednesday. It says:

In 30 out of 35 countries polled, from all regions of the world, a majority or plurality would prefer to see John Kerry win the US presidential election—especially traditional US allies. The only countries where President Bush was preferred were the Philippines, Nigeria, and Poland. India and Thailand were divided. On average, Kerry was favored by more than a two-to-one margin—46% to 20% (weighted for variations in population, the ratio was not significantly different).

See the full report on PIPA’s site.

BTW, the study doesn’t mention it, but I’m sure that Bin Laden and his fans would vote Bush too. No one else would play their game as well as he does!

I have posted about the last point, I don’t think there’s much doubt about this either…

Backup Brain points us (again) to a Gadflyer article about Al Gore’s analysis of Bush’s character: “W stands for weak”. The analysis itself is taken from a New Yorkerprofile of the former Vice-President, in which Tipper Gore also said: What did you expect? I live with the man who invented the Internet when asked about the couple’s matching Apple laptops. I know it has nothing to do with politics but this is my weblog and I cannot resist a little bit of Apple propaganda. :) Returning to Bush, his weakness is not surprising considering the guy doesn’t even know where his heart is (via DasGenie: !Scrap)… More from the Gadflyer about using the Republicans’ own tactics against them in a good example of framing the discourse towards getting Kerry elected. And with this, I shall refrain from posting about politics for a while. :)

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