first attempt -

I just came back from a guest lecture by the US general consul of the area about prejudices against the US - let's say I really expected more.

I wrote the paper I've to hand in about it and I think it's pretty negative as well...

It's just, I know we don't know about everything that's going in the US, but surely his excuses were so so lame!

Like, hm, this one point about the prejudice, that "Bush is a too strong believer to be a leader of a country", skipping the fact that it's not a problem that he's religious, but that he doesn't seperate between his believe and state affairs. He argued that other presidents before him have been even stronger believers and that Clinton mentioned "Jesus Christ" more often than Bush does. ???? What? How does that have to do with it? If a murderer says "oh, this person killed ten more people than I did", does it mean he's off the hook, or what???
I don't see that happening. He himself said that Germans seem to have had problems with all US presidents, well, guess why.

In the end a girl asked him about gay marriage, refering to this religious prejudice thing. Oh, I'll just paste that part:

Mr. Boice deliberately chose to talk about prejudices he wanted to point out as myths, so he chose not to talk about the prejudices (or major aspects of the ones he talked about) which are quite possible true. Asked about the conditions in Guantanamo or gay marriage during the question time at the end, he weaseled his way out by interpreting the questions to his liking or using the excuse – as he did before during the lecture - that it's the same in Germany, e.g. suggesting people are voting CDU for their Christian ideals, which - again - doesn't make it better either and rather emphasizes that Bush does indeed make laws regarding his Christian ideals. Asked more precisely about the conditions in Guantanamo he said, it's better than in 3rd world countries - again I can't see how that changes the fact that human rights aren't cared for.