It's not so odd to see it in the WaPo.  The NYT covers British politics every few days (and French or Italian "crises" almost every day, it seems).  I don't get the sense that any reporters in America take David Cameron seriously.  To them, he's John Edwards, without the looks or charm.  They also seem to pump up Gordon Brown, and it wouldn't be an American article on Britain if the Blair/Brown competition weren't mentioned in at least four paragraphs.

Basically, you can apparently take the most shallow political coverage from Britain, run it through the American filter (making it, where possible, even more shallow), and -- voila! -- you have an article on British politics.

I wish the BBC would expand its coverage in America, so that I could actually get ahold of more real news, worldwide and in Britain.  As it stands now, I would need digital cable or satellite tv to watch it, and I don't have that kind of money (nor would one channel be worth paying three times the price).

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

The WaPo might just be saying that Blair is in the same situation as Bush regarding popularity. If even the Brits are suffering from Blair fatigue, it's not that ominous that Americans are suffering from Bush fatigue.

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