“It’s not every day that a Nobel Prize winner becomes involved in a U.S. election”
Obama / Coakley?
Interesting!
Now there’s a community organizer for real!
Hey - can we have him for our President?
Oh, wait a minute - Walesa isn’t a natural-born American citizen. Darn!
Not a bad move. IIRC, the “windy” has the single largest Polish population in the U.S., and immigrants and their children, make up approx. 30% of the total Illinois population.
Walesa is still respected and admired among Americans and, especially, the Poles.
BTW, Walesa earned his Nobel. How many of us, quite a few I’d wager, remember the protests he led in Gdansk, and his in your face shout downs?
I admire Lech very much but, he is a citizen of another country and a former leader of said country.
I don’t want any foreign entanglements in our politics and there must be some corollary law on par with the Logan Act, which prohibit such involvement.
Anyone?
While I have tremendous respect for this man, I really have a problem with a nonAmerican being involved in a US election.
This is very confusing. When I was living in Poland, Walesa was seen as a leftist who was only slightly less of a lefty than the Communists. That’s why they tolerated him - he was a big-time Socialist who just wanted a little more competition between the extreme left and slightly-less-extreme left.
His nickname in Polish is “Srobokret” - Screwdriver. Because he was seen as a complete screwup.
If anyone, I would have expected him to campaign on behalf of Zero. Zero’s fiscal policies are very reminiscent of Walesa’s while he was President.
In fact, I see many similarities between Zero and Walesa - when elected they were both seen (by their supporters) as national saviors, but the glow soon wore off and their base abandoned them in short order.
Did Walesa suddenly get all free-markety or something while no one was looking?
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