| US | George W. Bush | 39 |
| France | Jacques Chirac | 38 |
| Canada | Paul Martin | 45 |
| Great Britain | Tony Blair | 31 |
| Germany | Gerhard Schroeder | 38 |
| Germany | Angela Merkel | 41 |
| Italy | Silvio Berlusconi | 43 |
| Japan | Junichiro Koizumi | 56 |
| Australia | John Howard | 43 |
| Russia | Vladimir Putin | 30 |
| South Korea | Roh Moo-hyun | 29 |
| Taiwan | Chen Shui-bian | 28 |
What's going on here? Has there ever been a period when this many political leaders were so unpopular? Is this the sign of some sort of global crisis of legitimacy?
5 comments:
uh, Vladmir?
Today at the summit of the americas, protesters set a bank on fire Friday and threw objects at police in the streets of the Argentine city hosting the Summit of the Americas. Small bands of demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails, set bonfires in the streets and burned American flags. At what point will the president realize, maybe he's doing something wrong? although having an IQ of 93 probably doesn't help him think about these things
Yes, Vladimir. My bad.
There was something very similar in the late 1970's, when virtually every majority party in the world was thrown out of power. The word for it is "malaise."
That's the way of the world. People need someone to blame but don't know of anyone who could do it better. Or better yet, they don't know how to do it themselves.
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