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# Britain Prefers A Democratic President.


This is not true for several reasons :

[1]
Some Britons don't understand the difference between a Democrat and a Republican.

[2]
Some Britons feel that U.S. politics is remote from their own politics.

[3]
Very few Britons understand the U.S. Electoral College or they are not interested.

[4]
The majority of Britons have no preference for any U.S. political party.

[5]
George W. Bush is an exception to the rule in U.S. Presidents.
He is not seen by the British public in the same way as other U.S. Presidents.
This is sometimes because of what is happening in Iraq.
Sometimes he is viewed like a funny man on a stage and it makes people laugh.

[6]
British anti-war feelings are usually directed at Prime Minister Tony Blair.

[7]
Florida is almost always thought of as a place to go on holiday.
Although a few people are now becoming more aware that it's the crooked election State.
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DOWNING Street has pleaded with the White House to tell President Bush:
"Don't mention Tony Blair."

Republican strategists wanted the President to trumpet his links with the
PM - who is hugely popular in the States - in his campaign for the US
elections in November.

They were also keen to broadcast video clips of the two leaders together to
help Bush defeat his Democrat rival John Kerry.

But allies of the PM have blocked the plan amid growing fears his cosy
relationship with Bush will send Labour plunging in the UK polls.

Sources close to Mr Blair are also worried about further damaging Labour's
close link with the Democrats. The Democrats are already privately seething
that Mr Blair and his Cabinet have failed to give Kerry any major signs of
support - let alone a ringing endorsement.

A senior Labour minister said: "There have been contacts at an extremely
high level about involving Tony Blair in the US campaign. It has been made
very clear to the White House and the Republicans that we do not wish to be
seen to be taking sides.

"Every time President Bush smiles and mentions 'my great friend Tony' and
the Iraq war, we take a nosedive in the polls." Labour high command is also
concerned about Tory leader Michael Howard's ruse to distance himself from
President Bush.

They believe he engineered stories of an apparent split between the Tories
and the Republicans last month as a stunt to woo voters already disaffected
with President Bush and the PM over the Iraq war.

The first signs of the Downing Street plan to tone down President Bush's
praise for Mr Blair were seen in his speech to last week's Republican
convention in New York.

Buried deep in his speech, the US leader made just one short mention of
American allies in the Iraq war.

He paid tribute to the courage of the little known Polish President
Aleksander Kwasniewski, Australian PM John Howard and Italian leader Silvio
Berlusconi, before finally adding, almost as an afterthought, the name of
Tony Blair.

A Downing Street insider said: "The truth is that we might prefer a Democrat
president.