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Subject: [Leica] the prime minister of where?
From: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Mon Feb 12 18:34:20 2007
References: <2E02CF93448C9B4AB3CE1DD46241236E60F5@EXCHANGE7.asc.local> <392F44A6-3D54-4963-8F0D-73A420F22127@comcast.net>

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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