WTF Is It Now?!?

Apres moi, le fromage*
WALTER RODGERS, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This image of the American president on his Texas ranch has little resonance in Europe. It just does not play well. Outside the United States, critics say George W. Bush has earned himself a reputation for arrogance that is hurting his country.

PIERS MORGAN, EDITOR "THE DAILY MIRROR": I sense a creeping anti-Americanism attached to the Bush administration based around this -- very much this you are either with us or against us mentality. I think people look at him and they think John Wayne. And we like John Wayne, we liked him in cowboy films. We don't like him running the world.

ABDEL BARI, ATWAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, AL QUDS: The Arabs see George W. Bush as arrogant and stupid at the same time. The Arabs liked Bill Clinton. They considered him wiser, reasonable, and a man who use his brains.

RODGERS: Others also say the president's perceived lack of intellectualism has earned him derision.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was caught not really knowing anything about European history or opera or art and so on. And the feeling is that he may be a great governor of Texas, but he shouldn't be in charge of the most powerful country in the world. - from CNN.

*Thanks, Bigwig!