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Article: EUROPE WARMS UP TO BUSH.(Editorial)(Column)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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Byline: John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
"It's a nightmare," Sir Elton John announced shortly after the November election: "George W. Bush and this administration are the worst thing that has ever happened to America." Yet, a few weeks later, the British "chanteur" was in the East Room of the White House accepting an award from the Toxic Texan.
It is always dangerous to read anything into a pop star's political posturing, but Sir Elton's rapid candle-in-a-hurricane change of heart is actually representative of a deeper change in the mood music of Old Europe. In the wake of the election, the Continent is slowly coming to terms with Bush.
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