Perspective

Compared with this, a 34 percent approval rating doesn't look so bad.

Tens of thousands of Indians waving black and white flags ... rallied Wednesday in New Delhi to protest a visit by President Bush.

Surindra Singh Yadav, a senior police officer in charge of crowd control, said as many as 100,000 people, most of them Muslim, had gathered in a fairground in central New Delhi ordinarily used for political rallies.

"Whether Hindu or Muslim, the people of India have gathered here to show our anger. We have only one message — killer Bush go home," one of the speakers, Hindu politician Raj Babbar, told the crowd.

Bush arrives in India later Wednesday for a three-day visit focused on strengthening the emerging strategic partnership between India and the United States.

Bush has received receptions like this almost everywhere he has gone pretty much since assuming office, but now the media are starting to acknowledge the protests. The protests, however, were not always this large or angry. But the most amazing thing about this story is the very next sentence:

While Bush remains more popular in India than he is in many other countries, some here object to U.S. policies, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.

When you go to a place where you're relatively popular and are greeted by a massive angry mob, you know you're not doing something right.