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To: NZerFromHK
they won't be happy with any US President to the right of Noam Chomsky).

Oh.....ick! Thank you for the response though, very interesting.

Prairie

167 posted on 11/24/2004 5:21:47 AM PST by prairiebreeze (We will not deny, ignore or pass our problems along to other Presidents. ---GWBush)
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To: prairiebreeze

It was hilarious. Clinton came here in '99, and half of the people demonstrating against him were local hard left denouncing "Yankee imperialism" and the other half were travelling Freeper-alike Americans calling him a rapist.

In fact, I think we weren't willing to allow armed USSS agents here back in 1996, explicitly saying no allowance would be given even if Clinton came. Our politicians and public figures have an annoying habit of ignoring the US as if you were Austria - far away, (to NZ) inconsequential. The last sitting US President to pay an official visit to NZ before Clinton was LBJ and he was the first.


168 posted on 11/24/2004 5:46:21 AM PST by NZerFromHK (Disclaimer: this poster is a naturalized NZer born in Hong Kong, not a expat Kiwi in HK)
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