[Leica] the prime minister of where?

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

Marc,

I think you took this WAY more serious than it was intended.  I think you 
should re-reaqd my part of this and you will find I was replying in a 
humorous way to Kyles post on the various political subjects.  I am not 
sneering at all.

Gene


-------------- Original message from Marc James Small 
<marcsmall@comcast.net>: -------------- 


> At 10:48 PM 2/12/2007, grduprey@mchsi.com wrote: 
> >Actually, I don't care much for Prime Rib. I'm afraid I do not agree 
> >with Kyle on not knowing of the Australian Prime Ministers remarks. 
> >Just about everyone I know mentioned him and his remarks today at 
> >work. My own thoughts were, Why does he even care this early in the 
> >running. Who knows if Obama will even survive the gauntlet between 
> >now and the election. Also, since he mentioned he would remove the 
> >soldiers by March of '08, is a bit of a streach, since if he did win, 
> >he would not even have been elected by that date as the election is in 
> >November, not March. 
> 
> Gene 
> 
> Let us set the sneering aside. Most USians do 
> not know the name of their own President, much 
> less that of foreign Chiefs of Government. I 
> would be surprised to learn that half of the US 
> populace knew who Queen Elizabeth I/II 
> was. However, the USian media is hammered by 
> these folks constantly. Tony Blair is all over 
> the airwaves here to the point where his UK 
> nickname of "Phoney Tony" has emigrated across 
> the Great Puddle. It does no good to make fun of 
> him. We USians are forced to deal with Canada 
> and several of the last Canadian PM's have been 
> royal pains in the craw to us, especially Trudeau and Chretien. So what? 
> 
> Let it all rest. Most of us on this List are 
> mature enough to have grown beyond tossing bones 
> of contention about each other's national 
> leaders. I recognize that the LUG is, at its 
> heart, a rather left-wing group but for the all 
> of it, can we just not poke fun at each other's 
> national leaders? I could say more but shan't, 
> in accord with Brian's suggestion that there 
> really are times to sit on your hands. We might 
> well have Australians on the LUG who happen to 
> support the Australian Prime Minister, so why 
> should anyone want to demean their feelings? 
> 
> Let us avoid politics, whether US or Canadian or 
> Australian or Azerbanazhi. Now,if you guys DO 
> want to get geared up, I'm your boy! But I 
> suspect that Brian would then send us over to the 
> neo-Marxist LUG Forum, and what joy would there 
> be in that? How many times can we bow our heads 
> to the grave of the dead Lenin? 
> 
> Let us let the politics alone. Yes, a bunch of 
> us know the names of the Prime Ministers of the 
> various shards of the British Empre -- for 
> heavens' sakes, I do subscribe to THE ECONOMIST, 
> a dangerously left-wing journal in my estimation 
> but I read it for the same reason I read the 
> WASHINGTON POST: a "dangerous right-winger" is, 
> in reality, a mushy moderate, and a "strong voice 
> for liberty" is Robert Mugabe or Fidel Castro or 
> the like. I understand their cant and I can 
> interpret and I do appreciate their book reviews and death notice. 
> 
> In short, the Australian political discussion has 
> gone on far enough. And he will win the next 
> elections, too, but let's talk about that AFTER the next election, okay? 
> 
> Marc 
> 
> 
> msmall@aya.yale.edu 
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! 
> 
> 
> 
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