前总统 乔治·W·. Bush kicked off his post-presidential speaking career in Canada yesterday — at a $400-a-plate lunch in Calgary.

虽然 卡尔加里先驱报 报道，他的讲话受到热烈欢迎, 大致 200 protesters gathered outside, charging Bush with war crimes. Many of the protesters 扔鞋 at a poster of the former president. 不完全 the lovey-dovey welcome that greeted President Obama when he visited Ottawa last month…

According to the Calgary newspaper, “Bush, who left office with one of the lowest approval ratings of any president in history, 选择卡尔加里的避风港, perhaps second only to Houston or Dallas in terms of friendly territory, to test-drive his new speaking career.” Or as columnist Jeffrey Simpson put it in the 环球邮报, “在那里，他是, in perhaps the only city in Canada that would have him.”

As Americans who were living in Canada during the Bush era undoubtedly know, the former president was hugely unpopular across most of the country.

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