The Center for American Progress reports that Anti-American sentiment in Europe runs high as a result of Bush's leadership.    A recent poll by London's Daily Telegraph newspaper found that "more people in France, Germany and Britain view the United States as a 'force for evil' than good in the world."

The London Independent issued a scathing editorial yesterday reflecting on Bush's visit and his presidency: "Perhaps Mr. Bush's most significant legacy, as far as Britain is concerned, will be the destruction of the instinctive trust of America and its leaders that once prevailed here. It is no exaggeration to say that Mr. Bush has done more damage to relations between our two nations than any president in living memory. This rupture is not an accident of circumstance; there are no impersonal forces of history to blame. This sorry state of affairs is the consequence of the actions of a single leader and his small coterie of advisers. ... And whatever the future holds for transatlantic relations, there will be very few in this country who watched President Bush's plane depart yesterday without a feeling of profound relief that the end of this disastrous presidency is finally in sight."

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2008/06/17.html

Cartoon courtesy of Tom Toles / Washington Post