Expats Against Bush - Britain: Americans March Against Bush

[dArKeR]

Luke Robinson is an American in London. But he is not cheering for George W. Bush during the U.S. president’s visit to Britain this week. Instead, the 29-year-old South Carolina-born web developer will lead some of his fellow citizens on the frontline of the mass protest march that is expected to draw as many as 100,000 demonstrators to the heart of the capital on Thursday. “With us at the front,” says Robinson, “it’ll be more powerful.”

ROBINSON IS so strongly opposed to the administration’s policies that he founded a protest group, “Expats Against Bush” (expatsagainstbush.org) to express his disapproval of the Bush state visit. In less than a month, he says, “response has shot through the roof” and press attention has been so intense it crossed from being “flattering” to “a chore.” He spoke to NEWSWEEK’s Emily Flynn on the eve of the mass march about why he thinks Bush is unfit to be president—and what message his organization wants to send back to America. Excerpts:

http://msnbc.com/news/995719.asp?0cl=c1

I guess I've never said this clearly and it's a overlook on my part. Not only do I swear that 90% of the citizens in the various countries I've been to HATE Bush and Bush's America, 95% percent of the Americans I've met overseas feel the same.

I very much question these foreign polls which only record 65%-80% which think Bush is the terror the in the world. My personal polls from directly meeting the people are in the 90%s.

[ScrewyRabbit]

1. I'm not currently an ex-pat, but I used to be

No one I know living back there is a fan of Bush II. It's worse than when I was in college and living overseas back in the Reagan days, and boy is that saying something.

[Paschall]

2. Ex-pats are much more concerned about foreign policy issues

For most Americans in the States, what happens outside the country is usually nothing more than a faint blip on the radar.

(Out of curiosity, I surfed over to www.republicansabroad.org.uk. Though the site gushes with pro-Shrub BS, they didn't have anything announced for the state visit. No call for flag-waving in front of Buckingham Palace or anything. But I suspect private invitations were sent out for that and/or some other hoopla "in the presence of His Excellency the Ambassador.")

By the way, this question from the interview you posted is pure sleaze-ball: "Are you opposed to all Republicans?" Duh! Why not just ask him if the group is affiliated or aligned with the Democratic Party?

And this is straight out of Black Propaganda 101: "'Expats Against Bush' is a pretty aggressive name. Would you say the group is extremist?"