WTF Is It Now?!?

Europe: America's turned into such a suckhole
Blames misadministration.

"You really have to wonder what brain cells are working up there."

In Paris, Cedric Judicis says with a laugh that if he can't vote on Nov. 2, at least he is splashing Heinz ketchup on his steak-frites as his contribution to the momentum against [the war-mongering Dictator-tot].

Paul Bruehl worries about what he calls Bush's Christian fundamentalism. With a bitter laugh, Bruehl described a T-shirt he had seen that made the point: "And God spoke through the Bush."

In Warsaw, where many support Bush - who remembered them during the first debate - Poles question the president's Iraq policy. "He banged his fist on the table," said Ewa Wojcik, a 44-year-journalist. "Whether it was the right table remains a question."

America is different now," Judicis said. "It rules by force, not by the weight of respect. There's a sense of 'do what I say and not what I do.' It was always so open. Now it seems to us totalitarian."