Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]He has won quite a few elections by being aggressive and partisan...all these comments by politicos are largely for local consumption. Cheers Jayanand On 2/13/07, Leonard Taupier <len-1@comcast.net> wrote: > > 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. > >>> > >>> _ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >