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To: doug from upland
doug from upland wrote: It sounds like a good opportunity for a European version of Limbaugh.

Such a a person would never be given a forum, and if he was nobody much would listen.

With Germans, as with most of Old Europe, the political spectrum ranges from Dennis Kucinich to Jimmy Carter, with a gap until you get to David Duke.

The only choices are the loony left, socialists or vest-pocket fascists.

77 posted on 11/19/2004 3:36:07 PM PST by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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Let me tell you a little story from personal experience. Two years ago, I hosted two young women, recent university graduates from germany, who hailed from my old home town in Bavaria. Their visit was marred for me as a result of their continual references to all that they perceived was 'wrong' with the USA. They disparraged everything, from character of its citizens, to the 'crass' commercialism, the food...(eat too much) and how loud the average American is...the US is a land of pornography and crime etc. I was glad to see them leave, their bitterness and hatred spoiled their entire visit for me, in Australia.
Loh and behold, the next part of their world tour took in a trip by road in a hire car across the US continent. On their return to germany, they wrote to me. The report went thus:
What a wonderful country! How kind and generous the people were! How great the food, how hospitable everyone was to them! How surprised they were to find that they were safe and need have no fear they would be robbed or attacked by muggers and rapers...etc.
I was happy to hear that at least two germans had overcome the propoganda. Europeans are so very good at asking both aussies and Americans 'but have you ever travelled?' forgetting that this question works both ways.


83 posted on 11/19/2004 4:06:45 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Understand Evil: Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD. Click Fred Nerks for link.)
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