Protests: ‘Four Moron Years’

IN Geneva, they read patriotic poetry. In Vienna, they drowned their sorrows and plotted their revenge. In London, they staged a candlelight protest outside the US Embassy.

Across Europe, a continent none too friendly to George Bush, locals and US expatriates united in their opposition to the US president and marked his inauguration with some unabashed Bush-bashing - complete with Four Moron Years buttons.

The Austrian chapter of Democrats Abroad, which scrapped plans for a black-tie ‘un-augural ball’ because of the tsunami in southern Asia, gathered its members at a traditional Vienna wine bar decorated with American flags “to scheme, plot and plan the retaking of our country.”