World trusts Ahmadinejad more than Bush ‘to do the right thing regarding world affairs.’»

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/16/world-trusts-ahmadinejad-more-than-bush-to-do-the-right-thing-regarding-world-affairs/

World trusts Ahmadinejad more than Bush ‘to do the right thing regarding world affairs.’»

A new World Public Opinion poll of 20 nations finds that just 2 percent say that they have “a lot” or “some” confidence that President Bush will do “the right thing regarding world affairs.” Bush ranks below Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, but just edges out Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf:

The only thing I find surprising is that no other nation has taken pre-emptive action against Bush!

But, yeah, I'd certainly favor him over Dubya with regard to most decisions.

After all, in the arena I reference in the subject line, they're about even, anyway.

I don't like Ahmadinjad- and I'm not ignorant of his radical views- but I also believe he would not be 'enabled' by those who really hold the power in Iran.

peace~

Whoever wrote that is functionally illiterate.

The chart itself is labelled:

"Numbers of countries with majorities or pluralities saying:
A lot/some confidence (vs) No/Not too much confidence".

The source for the chart is at:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/488.php?nid=&id=&pnt=488&lb=

It's a country-by-country survey of something like 20 countries. Of the twenty surveyed, some give more credence to Neejad than Bush. Most don't. But in few do more than 50% or a plurality of the respondents place "some/a lot of" confidence in Neejad or Bush. Few "world leaders" get more than 50% at all.

To be precise, Bush "wins" in two countries, one because he got over 50% (I don't think he was top scorer, though), and the other through a plurality, i.e., he got the highest percentage of all "contestants": Nigeria (> 50%) and India (45%).

Neejad wins 3: Indonesia (40%), Palestinians (37%), Jordan (24%).

Note that while Iran rooted riotously for Neejad, he was "local" to them and therefore didn't qualify. Oddly, Bush was listed as "world leader" for the American survey, but Brown won that (59% to 42%), so that quirk didn't skew the results.

It's not a good result, but let's at least not display our functional illiteracy for everybody to see, ok?