stephenbooth's Journal: Re-redefeat Bush

In one of the Keynote speeches in the opening of the UK Oracle Users Group annual conference a few interesting things were pointed out.

• The stated aim of ther European Union, as of the Lisbon accord, is to have a bigger and more powerful economy than the US by 2010.
• Over the last 4 years the US economy has shrunk by pretty much every economic measure (jobs/employment, GNP, investment &c).
• In that same period the overall European economy has grown.

In other news the results for GlobalVote 2004 are in and it's pretty much a landslide for Kerry. 77.1% vs just 9.0% for Bush, here's hoping those figures will be repeated in the USA. Unfortunately some US citizens seem to think that Europeans shouldn't be allowed to express an opinion.

According to today's USA Today George Bush Jnr (aka dubbya) doesn't like to be refered to as Junior. I'll remember that if I ever see him, although "Mr ex-president jnr" is a bit of a mouthful.