Obama wows Europeans as Bush era is consigned to the toxic dumpster of history

The hazmat crews have barely begun on what he left behind, but at least we've started on the massive cleanup.

Reuters

The excitement generated by U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to both sides of the French-German border was a sharp contrast to the angry protests that often greeted his predecessor George W. Bush on trips to the continent.

"I wanted to tell you that your name in Hungarian means 'peach'," a girl from Heidelberg, Germany, gushed to Obama, at a townhall meeting.

Oh effin' swell. Now we got a President nicknamed 'Peachy'. Heh.

In scenes repeating his European visit last year as a presidential candidate, Obama was cheered when he arrived in Strasbourg and received a kiss from a woman in the crowd as he headed for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Easy there, Carla...

It is sooooo much nicer to blog about stuff like this than it was to post about the Chimp's brain-deadity and total lack of courtesy and couth when he was abroad.