Bush's global poll

On the day of Bush's second - and supremely inspiring - inauguration speech, it's worth considering the BBC World Service poll that finds that more than half of people surveyed worldwide thought "the re-election of US President George W Bush has made the world more dangerous". Very worrying. All I can say is this: People around the world do not see the world the way President Bush sees it. Oh yes, and this: Bush's multiple references to "freedom" and "liberty" made me think of Lewis Black's riff on the 2002 Super Bowl. There so was so much patriotic fervor during the pre-game show, said Lewis, he ended up "sick of freedom;" he "yearned to be enslaved."