Saigon
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Respected?
Hardly.
No world leader feels he's trustworthy.
By respected I meant amongst everyday people, where polls show that it clearly is true.
Amongst heads of state, we can't know without asking them all privately, but my sense is that he is fairly well regarded in areas where Bush was quite openly and publically considered an imbecile. This isn't as much a left/right problem with Bush - because many of his detractors were conservatives - but simply a matter of his incompetence and lack of knowledge of the world. Obama hasn't quite hit the popularity heights of Clinton, but I'd say he's done well in this area.