If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

Could it be that the 'reality' of world opinion is beginning to break through to a President who doesn't read the paper for himself. One can only hope that this is a sign that Bush will start to gather information from sources other than his trusted inner circle!

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/politics/24PREX.html?th

"CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 23 — Minutes after President Bush finished an hourlong meeting with moderate Islamic leaders on the island of Bali on Wednesday, he approached his staff with something of a puzzled look on his face.

"Do they really believe that we think all Muslims are terrorists?" he asked, shaking his head. He was equally distressed, he told them, to hear that the United States was so pro-Israel that it was uninterested in the creation of a Palestinian state living alongside Israel, despite his frequent declarations calling for exactly that.

It was a revealing moment precisely because the president was so surprised."

It's scary to think that Bush has so isolated himself from public opinion and the views of non-Americans that it should come as a surprise that America is losing the trust of the world community. Someone, please pass George W another cup of coffee.