Perhaps, this will bring a tear to your eye.
While Bush was jeered and boooed at today's funeral, Bill Clinton was mobbed and greeted with adoring chants of U.S.A.!, U.S.A.!, U.S.A.!
Got Daddy Issues?
"As Mr. Clinton went for a walk, ...shoppers, tourists having lunch at outdoor cafes and Italian business people going to meetings all stopped to greet him."
"Along the streets, people starting yelling "Bill, Bill, Bill," and a few shouted "U.S.A.!" One shopkeeper raced out with a photograph of Mr. Clinton on a past visit."
"You go around the world and you see a lot of affection for Americans," he said.
[can you imagine, Clinton’s photo hangs on a plain shopkeepers' wall]
"..by the time Mr. Clinton made it out of the back streets and into the open square, a mob of hundreds developed. Mr. Clinton's nervous Italian bodyguards put him in a car and sped him away."
"After the dinner with the Italian leader, he went out with President Viktor Yuschenko and stayed out with him until after midnight."
Source: NY Times