I would hope the people of Brazil can understand that not all Americans support our current president. I have many friends in Brazil and hope to make many more on my next visit. I just hope that those future friends can separate their hatred for our current foreign policy from the normal visitors from the US. I voted for President Bush and I am shocked at the things that he has done. He is totally out of touch with almost all US citizens!

My experiences in Brazil have been very positive. I have also had some bad experiences but I do not hold all the Brazilian people responsible for a few criminals. I hope most of my experiences continue to be very positive.

Will Cline, Raleigh, NC

Of course we´re not happy in Brazil with Bush´s visit as the only purpose of his visit is to make an agreement wich has advantages obviously just for the US. Besides this, Bush doesn´t care about the ALCA and keeps doing bilateral agreements with isolated countries in South America, which is bad for the continent as a whole.

Caio Bernardes, Blumenau - SC, Brazil

Jim Michie, you can not be serious. "globally respected prior to the madness of "King George"???
Anti-Americanism has been the national identity of Latin America for decades and has existed around the World long before Bush.
Nothing will change when Bush is gone, and all will be exposed for their hatred of the US who now claim Bush as the reason. It will remain the same, as it did before. There will just be a 'new' reason.
BTW, what a warm, friendly people those Brazilians are

MCD, Elmhurst, USA

brazil lol...

a, rio de genrero,

Good for the people of Brazil!
I think thats just the kind of welcome an idiot like George Bush deserves!

Shiva, Slough, UK

As a brazilian I do not think the majority of our people refuses Bush. We just do not agree with his policy but he is welcome to Brazil as well any other world citizen. After all, he will spend only one day here! So,it makes no difference if after this trip he goes to heaven or to hell...

Adalberto Goncalves, Potirendaba, Sao Paulo/Brazil

Yes, well, I'm in full agreement that Brazilian politics is more often than not dominated by somewhat absurd desires to become a world power, especially since Lula became president. He is every bit as bad as Bush when it comes to facing reality (and is as ignorant on the subject of Portuguese grammar as Bush is on the correct usage of English...). His newest absurd plan include making the Amazon region "stronger" by allowing big logging companies to explore hardwoods deep inside the rainforest in places so far untouched, since according to him, Brazil's economy doesn't grow only because of environmental protection that is too harsh...

Brazil can be called hypocrite in this sense, that it doesn't recognize its own failures in educating its people, causing most of the problems that are widespread, and fomenting the distancing between poor and extremely rich.

But "King George" (I LIKE that!) deserves every criticism he is getting, even in Brazil.

Max M. Fuhlendorf, Sao Paulo, Brazil

It's nice to see that big-splash activism and sloganeering are alive and well in South America. Brazil? Well, what can one say? What has most motivated political behavior there for a century, both at the government and street level, has been an infintile desire for recognition and a lingering resentment towards the country it most emulates. But even the US doesn't bully its neighbors as Brazil does. Especially quaint is the anti-imperialist rally scheduled for a Buenos Aires football ground to be led, of course, by the world's oldest living teenage revolutionary, Hugo Chavez, who, by the way, never shuts up about imperialism while pursuing his own brand of Boliviarianismo. And I wonder if Maradona will stagger up to the podium and demand that the US surrender the Louisiana Purcahse. After all, he is one of the faces of the newly assertive Latin America.

Patrick , Providence, RI, US

George W. Bush has destroyed the reputation of the United States--globally respected prior to the madness of "King George" over the past six years. No matter where he travels in this world, he will be greeted with disdain. God save the Unites States as we wait out the next 20 months and finally we all can celebrate the end of the madness of "King George."

Jim Michie, Bethesda, Maryland, USA