I remember talking to an American Couple when I was in Antigua just before that election and me being me quite bluntly had a pop about the people in the US voting in Dubya the first time round (Yeah yeah - I'm to diplomacy what King Herod was to Child care).
Then it got awkward
I sort of got the impression that as he is the POTUS then one should not insult him etc - he was the choice of the people etc - and it turned out that they had voted for him first time round
Like I said 'Awkward' - they gave their reasons - and I did get it
When I pressed them on voting for him the second time round they brought up something I had not appreciated before then.
Their attitude was that as the USA was effectively at war then it was not the done thing to vote against the current POTUS - I got the impression that they felt that it was un-patriotic or some such.
I'm not joking they were genuinely torn - they could see that he had been the wrong choice but there was this whole unwritten unvoiced rule 'Support the troops - you had to vote for Bush' deal
I didn't get it but then I'm not an American
I guess in the end not enough people got the memo and off Dubya went to work on his golf swing
Still...maybe if he had won he might have somehow avoided that double dip recession
