The portrayal of George W. Bush in international ads
This is a Scrabble ad in Chile. It notes that both names are worth 17 points.
The three advertisements above are for Greenpeace China.
Reader Comments
Very funny!
> We don’t realize how disliked our president is.
Some of us do because we despise him at least as much.
“We don’t realize how disliked our president is.” - NEON
We did not realize some Americans where so naive.
VOTE RON PAUL!
Scrabble ad = not Chile
How disliked your president is?
More like how disliked YOU AMERICANS are. You continue to baffle the world with your arrogance and stupidity. This isn’t george bush’s way, this isn’t george bush’s mess- it’s the american peoples. And yet you all act like if you distance your self from you ELECTED leaders that you’ll be off the hook.
Bush is just the face that represents you. YOU are to blame for all of the mess.
Start with Iraq. Get the hell out of their country and then strt paying reperations to them in appology for the rest of your life.
But no, you won’t because there are only two kinds of yanks, the kind that are too stupid to see their mistakes and the kind that think that they are not to blame in the first place.
Time to take responsibility.
These ads are the nice ones….
http://www.boingboing.net/images/bush.jpg
http://www.boingboing.net/images/cubaphoto.jpg
http://sniggle.net/Experiment/billboards.jpg
http://estrip.org/elmwood/users/libertad/images/0906/fascistas0802.jpg
George would have to be one of the funniest puppets ever to represent the ‘Greatest Democracy’ in the world. Shame that it’s only ‘the land of the free’ in a song.
Beware those who cross his path.
A lot of people I know from the UK and elsewhere in Europe regard GW as one of the most dangerous men in history… he’s seen as a nazi, right up there with Hitler, from effectively creating 9-11 and the situation in New Orleans through gross negligence, to ‘doing’ Iraq (1million dead).
Not to mention scaring the wits out of the rest of the planet with his ‘war on terror’, Nuclear proliferation policy, and personal chats with God…
Voice In the Head,
Hold on there sparky. You seem to be suffering the same foot-to-mouth disease President-Select is suffering from. There are millions of Americans who don’t accept or support that chicken-hearted-chicken-hawk and masters.
Devastating crimes against humanity are being perpetrated in our names and many Americans are losing their lives at-home and abroad to his madness.
Bear in mind that before Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib we had and still have our own prison industrial complex which houses more Americans percentage-wise than any other nation. we imprison more of our people.
so step off your soap box and be upfront with your agenda.
i’ll be clear, the US is not doing the right thing. It’s people are suffering as well because of this man’s actions.
To: “the voice in your head”
Not all Americans are like what you represent. About 60 % know 9-11 was either allowd or an inside job, But they government, like yours controls the country. We fight back, and we are arrested, jailed, called terrorist by the government and the Media. You see what they allow you to see, just like we see what is allowd from your countries.
Unless you use the underground or Internet news, you will get propaganda. We know that the bush admin is = to hitler, and that The BUSH family has ties with hitler (financed by Prescot bush) G.W. Bushladins grandfather. We know they are criminals, there are protest here daily, but the media does not cover it. We have 9-11 truth and hundreds of other operations that are trying to get things changed.
Not all are arrogant, and will fight this until the end. But the same media that pushes this crap makes us to look like morons and will not let us give our side.
We have also tested the WTC steel and found residues from C.D., We have seen PNAC, we know what is going on, but our voices are silent. We now have “Checkpoints” with black shirt uniformed morons frisking us in the name of “The war on Terror”. Women have to empty out baby milk to get on a plane.
The Nqational ID crap, They will let anyone in, but you have to have a passport ot leave so they can track you.
RFID in every bill of 20 bucks or higher. Loss of the and 4th amendment.
You sit there mad at us, go ahead, but there are good people fighting the battles here to bring justice. We know he is Hitler Jr., We know he murdered 3k people so he could have a catalist to murder millions more in other countries, we know there were no WMDs, we know he is trying to start a war with IRAN, We know 2 nukes ar missing and the 14 soilders on the aircraft that shipped them just “Died”!
We know the truth, and are fighting, I can agree that the rest of the world see’s better than the U.S. population, but it is easier to see a problem looking in over looking within.
The U.S. has been brainwashed into thinking that they are the “Good guys” when in fact it is the opposite.
We know, But I will tell you this, not all of us are blind and crazy. And we are fighting back. What are you doing? I see no protest in your country concerning G.W.’s Nazi Party either.
This just in, Voice in Our Heads: The American electoral college has far more control over who becomes President than the popular vote does (as the election in 2000 proves). In 2004, the popular numbers were practically 50-50. What do you say to the 48 or so percent of people who did NOT vote for Bush?
To say Americans are disliked is a fact. Whether or not we all should be for the reasons you outlined is not. Kindly don’t assume you can judge an entire (enormous, by the way) country’s people based on an electoral system that doesn’t favor individual voters.
That said, Bush sucks. And the scrabble ad made my day.
To the voice: YOU are an idiot. And by YOU, I mean specifically YOU, not the “YOU” which you used to label an entire population. Saying ALL Americans are arrogant and stupid is like saying ALL Muslims are terrorists.
The only person here who’s arrogant and stupid, I’m afraid, is YOU.
Yeah, it’s my fault I voted for Al Gore and John Kerry and that I don’t support the war. Little European prick, continue berating the other half of the America that did not support any of the right wingers.
Unfortunately running for president in the use is no longer about having best interests at heart its about being famous and popular. Look at that complete and utter twat Hilary cunton. She has been saying any old rubbish to make herself look good about how she was shot at (actually with children) and all the racist stuff from the other delegates.
I actually hope obama gets in because he has been shown to be the lesser of 2 petty evils. Its about time America grew up and shut up and leave really countries to do the important stuff.
England is pretty crappy at the mo but damn america has lost the plot, the only stable places are probably France or Germany.
STFU america and leave the rest of us in the eu alone hence it being called the EUROPEAN UNION
The Voice in Your Head….
I’m disappointed you would lump all Americans into one group. I never voted for George Bush. Actually, more than half of America never voted for George Bush. What do you want me to take responsibility for? Imagine for just a second that you were one of the millions of Americans who has never supported Bush, and you’ll understand why it’s just a little annoying to be called arrogant and stupid.
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@the voice in your head
First of all, I’d like to add my voice to that of the other dissenters in saying you can’t just hold these prejudices against an entire country. We aren’t all the same.
Next, I’d like to point out the hypocrisy in your statement. You used the term “yanks”, so I’d say it’s fair to assume you are from the UK or, at the very least, Europe. If that is indeed the case, seems like the imperialist pot is calling the imperialist kettle black, eh?
@marlin
Wow, I’m glad you’ve got all those facts there, buddy. Everything you hear on the internet is totally true. Oh wait, no it’s not. People like you are half the reason America looks bad. Apparently you think your “truth” is the only possible explanation. I can see why we look arrogant to the rest of the world.
Obama: “CHANGE…it’s expensive!”
Clinton: Truthfully, I have no clue as to the “How’s” of her campaign…is there any at all?
McCain: Not even a Republican by definition.
Ron Paul: Just makes sense. If reality is your kind of thing.
YES THE PRESIDENT SUCKS AT THIS RATE SO WILL THE NEXT ONE.
The biggest kinds of changes that we need are difficult when the corporate owned media gets to pick and choose whatever propaganda will make the most money. Freedom of the press means nothing when the voices being heard have all been bought out. Check out my blog if you want to see that there are still some Americans who are willing to do whatever they can to help. I may only write a blog right now, but its something, hopefully I can make the difference for the right person.
Did some self righteous little stain on the Internet just say Americans have to pay for the actions of the leaders?
Really?
Hey dimwit wake up. You and I control diddly squat. Powerful people march on while citizens try to live their lives.
It’s also the powerful people who tell you Germany or Iran attacked. No nimrod. Hitler attacked. Bush attacked.
People who barely can make ends meet and are getting blown to bits so they can get to college are not responsible for the actions of power players. They don’t call the shots.
It’s you idiots who think you Sigmund Flippin Freud making moral profiles and psychological judgments who ignore the kings of power in the world who never get the blame.
Does it make you feel like an adult to make cliche’d generalizations? You’re a two bit little whiny idiot.
How about pointing the finger at the scams and the scoundrels and putting away the pop psychology theories? “They have a bad leader because they’re corrupt.” Circular reasoning works because…
You sir are a pompous little twit pretending to be something you are not.
Get off your high horse.
top ones from good old new zealand.
Silly Europeans. Perhaps those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Hrmm funny how most of those ads are from cuba…
Funny how so many Cubans immigrate to the US…
Oh an Obama? Hes not the way to go if America hopes to fix itself, sorry he doesnt cut it.
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We don’t realize how disliked our president is. I’ve watched news from various other countries and, although they remain polite, they never have one single good thing to say about him. He’s a betrayal of the real right wing that wants small government and fiscally conservative practices.