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Subject: [Leica] the prime minister of where?
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Mon Feb 12 18:38:14 2007
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Jerry,

Agreed.

Len


On Feb 12, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote:

> Len,
>
> I don't know or care what his politics are, but he surely is giving  
> his country a bad name.
>
> Jerry
>
> Leonard Taupier wrote:
>> Alastair,
>>
>> I knew John Howard was your prime minister.
>>
>> And I know he butted in on Mr Obama and his politics.
>>
>> What I didn't know is that he's also a republican.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Len
>>
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>>
>>> Alastair said (of the Obama photos):
>>>
>>>> Thanks for showing: it will be an interesting race to watch to  
>>>> the white
>>>> house: I know our PM has butted in already, when he should butt  
>>>> out!!!
>>>
>>> Don't worry Alastair -- not only do we in American have no idea  
>>> that your PM butted in, we have no idea who he is. I saw a  
>>> snippit on YouTube of what appeared to be an Australian comedy  
>>> show where they had some comedian walking around Southern  
>>> California saying "Hi, I'm the Prime Minister of Australia, I'm  
>>> here to support your president's position on Turkmenistan."  
>>> Everybody shook his hand, got their photos taken with him, was  
>>> overjoyed to meet a Prime Minister (even if they weren't quite  
>>> sure what a Prime Minister is -- is that like Pope?) and agreed  
>>> that whatever it was President Bush was saying about Turkmenistan  
>>> was very important and thanks for backing him up.
>>>
>>> To add insult to injury, he then produced a world map that  
>>> labeled Australia as "Iran" in giant letters and had people push  
>>> a pin into the country they thought we ought to invade next.  
>>> People gleefully read the letters and stuck their little "Invade  
>>> Next" pins into the land down under.
>>>
>>> I can only hope they had to go through many hundreds of my  
>>> countrymen before they found a dozen who had no idea where  
>>> Australia was. Though I'm sure that's not the case.
>>>
>>> _
>
>
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