PHOTOS: Imagine a US President beloved internationally, meeting the people...

[Bluebear]

...seeing them face to face, unafraid...not confining visits to military bases or "surprise" visits...not whisked off to some seaside hotel retreat while the population protests and burns effigies? Adored, respected, celebrated? Was it so long ago?

[Faux pas]

1. I miss those good old days.....sob, gulp. n/t

[wtmusic]

2. Great photos

Junior wouldn't dare stand exposed in front of a crowd of that size.

[snowbear]

3. And-

Home and Away photos-


Barack Obama in Kenya


John Edwards - New Orleans



General Wes Clark



Governor Richardson

[Clark2008]

12. You should have used this one of Clark:

(It goes with the "beloved crowds" theme. :) )

[Lasher]

4. Did any other president ever employ 'free speech zones'?

And did anybody else screen all the audiences to ensure only zealots were in attendance? I don't remember other presidents doing that.

What a nightmare these six long years have been. And two to go. But at least we have control of Congress now.

[Journeyman]

5. Yeah, but some US officials just inspire excitement South of the Border. . .

Vice President Richard Nixon visits Caracas, 1958. . .

[annabanana]

21. Nixon was recognized early for the thug he was.

At the time, would they have welcomed Ike the same way?

[AshevilleGuy]

60. I was just telling a younger frend about that tonight.

Nixon got egged in Venezuela (I think) in 1958. It was unheardof. People should have been alerted about him from that.

[lebkuchen]

6. When Clinton visited the south island of New Zealand during his last year

by the time he left, New Zealanders figured he'd met with a quarter of the population, shaking their hands and remembering their names if they met again.

He and Chelsey received a standing ovation at the Antarctica Museum.

[sam sarrha]

7. please post the post the photos of the mobs lynching Dubya in S America

[SoCalDem]

13. Here's him getting punched inthe face

Click on the pic for many more pics of the protests.

[Cameron27]

22. Looks like he's guessed what a Bush

"goodwill" visit means:nuke:

[JNelson6563]

8. I almost forgot

what it's like to have a President who is loved, not hated. Clinton was so excellent as our frontman to the world. He could win us friends everywhere.

And then there's Little Boots....

[EstimatedProphet]

15. Hey, that picture could just as easily have been taken in the US.

[mwb970]

9. Bush and Cheney have made America an object of hate and scorn.

I will never forgive them for what they have done to my country. Never.

[Botany]

10. Those Irish Pix of Clinton are great.

In 2004 25,000 Irish marched to with in 2 miles of * to protest
him being there ...... a reporter on Irish T.V. asked * he was honest
about the war in Iraq.

I read that went Clinton went back to Ireland a few years ago that
he walked the streets and was loved.

[Lisa]

53. an Irish friend of mine swears that his relatives put up a picture of Clinton ...

... in their living room -- right next to the picture of JFK!

[blogslut]

11. Say what one will

but the man is Elvis.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

14. That seems like eons ago

:(

[EstimatedProphet]

16. Bush shames this country, as do his followers

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Going back even farther...

Here's JFK in Berlin:

[gratefultobelib]

19. Oh......thank you so much for that. I was 21 when he was killed. Still hurts so much.

[Cameron27]

23. I was just a kid when Kennedy went to Berlin...

that picture is breathtaking. I still remember.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

26. What a GRAND photo!!!

:)

[Olney Blue]

18. And Clinton continues to represent the good face of the U.S.

with his humanitarian work.

After he leaves office, the Chimp intends to start a neocon "think tank" to retool his shattered legacy.

Amazing how the world agrees in their horror at his policies....

[glitch]

20. I expected pictures of Al Gore with all the AIT crowds. nt

[Laurab]

24. And Clinton is still beloved

and can walk freely amongst the people, and gather crowds, around the world.

Bush will never, EVER be able to do that in his life. We have lost so much because of one man and the people he chose to run this country. * and Darth Cheney will have to hide from people the rest of their lives, even if they do finish their terms without criminal charges or impeachment.

[cynthia]

28. Don't forget

They will have to avoid certain countries lest they be locked up as war criminals!

[Laurab]

44. I think they'll have to avoid just about every country

they are hated everywhere, as far as I can tell. Then there is that little matter of the war crimes in a few countries, but either way, I don't think they'll be doing a whole lot of traveling - Cheney is used to hiding, but I think it may be a shock to *, since he's so delusional, he probably thinks people love him.

[Seabiscuit]

30. Bush will never be able to set foot in public *anywhere*.

He and his entourage will live in fear of his being violently attacked or assassinated wherever he happens to be on this planet. Not even Nixon was so universally reviled.

[Laurab]

42. Indeed, and he has earned it, many times over

I wonder if he's even aware of this, or if he's so protected that he thinks people like him, until he gets somewhere and can't ignore the protesters in front of him.

[Seabiscuit]

48. I don't know the answer to that question. n/t

[Kerrytravelers]

25. I in high school and college during the Clinton years.

I had such hope. Then I went into the "real world" and got little boots as a "pResident."

What an eye-opener.

[rockymountaindem]

29. I've been in HS and college under Bush

Whad'ya think about that :(

[Kerrytravelers]

31. Wow.

:scared:

[Cabcere]

45. Same here

It really sucks. :( I entered high school in 2000 and will graduate from college in 2008, so my educational chronology lines up almost perfectly with this hellish administration. x( I will never understand how on earth Bush got "re-elected" in 2004, and I wake up pretty much every day wishing that he hadn't. I wasn't a huge fan of John Kerry, but I do think he would've done a much better job than Bush...and if Kerry had been elected President, maybe most of the world's people wouldn't utterly despise us, and maybe terrorism wouldn't be on the rise globally, and maybe our economy wouldn't be totally fucked...and almost certainly thousands of our soldiers and Marines would still be alive, including a friend of mine who never lived to see his 20th birthday because of fucktard's ego (I know that sounds selfish, but his story is representative of so many others - all who have been lost were somebody's child, somebody's friend, somebody's future...). :cry:

[rockymountaindem]

50. I'm sorry to hear about your friend

I've had two friends deploy for a total of three tours and one more coming up.

[Cabcere]

51. Thanks

I hope your friends will be okay. :hug: I have a few other friends, acquaintances, and relatives in the military, but he was probably one of the ones I was closest to. I hope they all come home safely...and soon. :grouphug: Peace.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

27. All those smiling, hopeful faces.

Seems half a lifetime ago . . . :(

[Trajan]

32. Notwithstanding this specific thread (so far ...)

Clinton could NOT walk down Main Street DU without some of the more angry members tossing some metaphorical poo onto his entourage ...

I adored the man ... It's too bad he gets the same response here (at times) that Bush get's in South America ....

Nevertheless ... It is a stark contrast that exists in world opinion to these two men, and two parties ....

Anyone who claims there is NO difference between the Democratic party and the GOP is obviously too jaded to see the differences ...

[DeepModem Mom]

33. K&R

[stonebone]

34. kick

[sammythecat]

35. And to think that such a mean dullard

as bush got elected to take his place. TWICE!!

I can only shake my head.

[robinlynne]

40. He hasn't been elected yet.

[sammythecat]

43. Ahh, you got me there!

So true, so very true.

[robinlynne]

52. I know. People always ask how he was elected. And, in fact, he wasn't. We don't even know what the

real margins were. Maybe it wasn't even close...

[AshevilleGuy]

58. Think of this: GWB will NEVER, now, be elected President!!

But Bill Clinton was twice, Gore once, and hopefully twice more!

[robinlynne]

65. true.

[mopinko]

36. when they have to dodge the flying produce at the

inauguration, you know something is fucked. i think we should legislate limits on SS protection. if you cannot walk among your people, you are not their leader. period. "vote counts" be damned.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

37. Oh, that this was not only a pleasant fantasy.

:mad: :grr: :cry:

[tex-wyo-dem]

38. One of my favorite pictures of President Clinton...

More than 200,000 gathered in sweltering heat to cheer Clinton in Accra, Ghana. His official appearances in Africa sparked great enthusiasm among local people

http://www.time.com/time/daily/special/photo/clintonlookback/11.html

[aaronbees]

41. That's one of my favorite Bill Clinton photos too

Damn, those days seem so long ago and faraway. Breaks my heart.

[Chipper Chat]

39. 80,000 people listen to President Kerry and The Boss in Madison.

[oblivious]

46. "Roll up your maps; put away your photographs. The word of a President of the US is enough for me."

General de Gaulle to Dean Acheson on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/donald_macintyre/article216648.ece

[sammythecat]

56. That is so sad. I never heard that.

We have lost SO much these past 6 years. I fear it's going to take much longer to get that kind of trust back again.

[jillan]

47. Excellent thread! Thanks everybody ;)

[eppur_se_muova]

49. Not so long ago, but in another world ... it wasn't pre 9/11, it was pre 11/7/2000.

Thanks for posting those great pics, and reminding us of what we need to get back to.

[Applan]

54. Forgive me, I'd forgotten

I thought we were always despised and hated throughout the world.

Oh how things would have been different if Al Gore had rightfully been installed as the 43rd President of the USA.

[Amonester]

62. I can clearly see the WTC's twin towers still up there.

And a tiny few co-conspirators locked up behind bars...

LONG before the fifty-second official warning!

6,500 + tens of thousands Iraqis still alive. They did not have to die. They would not be dead with President Al leading the country.

And "new" levees in New Orleans would have been ready to withstand Katrina just in time. Fifteen hundred+ still alive. They did not have to die. They would not be dead with President Al at the wheel.

[Catherine Vincent]

55. Yeah, imagine that!

That's my dawg! :)

[Alamom]

57. Wow, I guess we tend to forget. Not so very long ago, our president was loved,

he was America, we were America....the good guys.

I hope I live long enough to see this happen again. People across the world, loving and trusting our President and leaders.

[AshevilleGuy]

59. 2001 with President Gore: who can say what might have been? n/t

[symbolman]

61. What i hate the Most

is the Bullshit SPIN the media puts on these events, like Bush wasn't going to that City anyway, etc..

Then there's the GO HOME GRINGO, crap.. all the signs I saw said "BUSH"

They want BUSH TO LEAVE, not americans, of course the press has to drag all of US DOWN in this exchange and make it appear that AMERICANS are the ones they don't want there, Horseshit.. Every person I've ever met from another country didn't blame ME for my 'leader' or 'govt' intrusions on their liberties, and I didn't blame THEM personally for their Rotten Politicians..

Unfortunately NOW we've got a CREATURE who's taken us for a ride in the woods, got us out of the car to have a look at something Cool, then Took a baseball bat to a Hornet's Nest and RAN back to the car, where they locked the DOORS on us, and Laugh at us through the car window as they drive off, while WE get STUNG to death - BUSH.. THanks to him, any of us could have our heads CHOPPED off unless we claim to be Canadian or something while travelling.

Hey Media, it's "GET OUT BUSH" or "BUSH IS A MURDERER!" NOT "Go Home Yankee Dogs.."

Do they think we're retarded? WE SEE THE PHOTOS and ALL the signs SAY 'BUSH' on them, and you don't have to speak their Language to FIGURE THAT OUT :)

[arcos]

63. Clinton also faced protests when he visited abroad...

And I'm not even comparing them, obvisouly Clinton is a statesman, intelligent and a good person.

But American imperialism did not start with George W. Bush and it will not end with him either... Clinton also faced protests in nearly every trip he took abroad, and we're not talking about anti-Americanism either: Clinton fully supported "free trade" and other "free market" policies that are not really popular around the world.




http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2000/03/22/clinton000322.html
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9911/19/clinton.greece/index.html

[Vinca]

64. Wow - I forgot the fireworks. Will that ever happen again?? nt

[Supersedeas]

66. the coward from Crawford could care less about the world--Def K shareholds on the other hand

[bobbie]

67. 1963