World opinion of America will drop with the reelection

In what is being called the most important and the closest election of our lifetimes (since 2000 of course), this year's presidential election has left half of the population jumping for joy and the other half in stunned silence.

For Democrats, the outcome came as a shock. There had been so many reports giving liberals false hope that Bush would be defeated this time. Hundreds of lawyers were made available at a second's notice to prevent a repeat of Florida. A series of PSA's practically forced the youth to get their vote out, most of which were predicted to vote for Kerry.

But alas, after push came to shove, there will be another four more years of liberals protesting the administration's actions, cringing at Bush's speeches and laughing at his Bushisms.

When Cheney came on to introduce Bush at his victory speech, he expressed his gratitude towards the American populations because, thanks to them, they "won the greatest number of popular votes of any presidential candidate in history.”

Similar to most of what the duo has to say about current events, the statement distorts the truth without actually lying. True, they did win the greatest number of popular votes of any presidential candidate in history, but they also had the greatest number of popular votes voted against a candidate in presidential history.

It's not only nearly half of the American population who is disappointed at the outcome of the presidential elections, but also a lot of the international population. England's The Daily Mirror captured the feelings of most of the world and about half of the United States in its front-page headline the Thursday after the election. "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?'' was sprawled across one of the dopier pictures of Bush with a subhead that read "U.S. election disaster."

Continuing with the trend, another British periodical called The Independent headlined its the front page with "Four more years'' over a black page with bleak pictures including a Iraqi prisoners and detainees from Guantanamo Bay. The Guardian also featured a black page with the words "Oh, God'' written on it. Inside, a story described the effects of Bush's first victory and how it "catapulted liberal Britain into collective depression.''

An article in the same paper called the election "a world election in which the world has no vote,” stating that "four more years of Bush can confirm millions of Muslims in a self-defeating phobia against the west, Europe in hostility to America and the U.S. on the path to fiscal ruin. Four more years, and the Beijing Olympics will see ascending China dictating its terms to a divided world."

Following in England's footsteps, Germany's Tageszeitung newspaper read "Oops—they did it again” on its front page. On the cover of a Swiss newsmagazine called Facts, Bush's re-election was deemed "Europe's Nightmare." Finally, L'Hebdo, another Swiss weekly, headlined "Victory for the hothead: How far will he go?"

Global Market Insite did a poll among citizens of various international countries to see where their vote would lie if they had a say in the election. Canada gave Bush the most votes with 25 percent. In the UK, he would have received 21 percent of the vote. In China, Japan and Russia, Bush polls at 15 percent, but in France and Germany, Bush doesn't make it past the 5-percent mark.

It seems that it will be very hard to create any alliances in the future with 'Dubya' continuing his reign. His election also won't seem to improve the world's already worsening view of America.