the Ugly American

God Bush is a tool.
During his stay in Hanoi he went to one non-official event and spent 15 minutes. Seriously. He just has zero interest in the rest of the world. What an asshole. If you want a quote that is a perfect distillation of why the world (rightly) hates us, check this out:

On Saturday, Mr. Bush’s national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, conceded that the president had not come into direct contact with ordinary Vietnamese, but said that they connected anyway.
“If you’d been part of the president’s motorcade as we’ve shuttled back and forth,” he said, reporters would have seen that “the president has been doing a lot of waving and getting a lot of waving and smiles.”