En vesentlig forklaring på Europas skepsis, for ikke å si fiendtlighet, til president Bush er at eliten ikke liker hans stil: New York Times.

“Much of it is the way he talks, the rhetoric, the religiosity,” he said of Mr. Bush. “It reminds them of what drove them crazy about Reagan. It reminds them of what they miss about Clinton. All the stereotypes we thought we had banished for good after Sept. 11 — the cowboy imagery, in particular — it’s all back.”