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Hi Dennis,

Dennis Gunn wrote:
>Actually bush is a dream come true for anyone wishing to make the US
>look stupid.
Unfortunately, Dennis, people like Mr. Bush is all some of us ever see as 
representative of the USA. With all due respect to you, he is coming over 
as a perfectly ordinary and typical American, expressing perfectly ordinary 
and typical American views in a perfectly ordinary and typical American 
kind of way. What he is saying and doing is how the US usually looks. In my 
view. I mean no disrespect but I cannot see what is really so very 
different about it.

>   Especially useful are the press conferences where he
>stumbles on looking like he's slowly making his way toward some point
>then simply stops before he reaches it looking a bit like a stunned
>cow that has just trotted into a tree.

It is a mystery -- and it would seem to be so to you -- why so many 
ordinary and typical Americans felt it appropriate to choose him for their 
president. It is surely not unreasonable to conclude that it is because 
ordinary and typical Americans regard him as the ideal representative of 
their ordinary and typical lives -- and that the policies he is pursuing, 
which are really rather ordinary and really rather typical of the kind of 
American foreign policy that his predecessors have also pursued -- is in 
fact properly representative of what it is that Americans want now and what 
Americans have always wanted when it comes time for their country to be 
represented in the international arena.

>I hope for everyone's sake that he is just this way in front of cameras.
Unfortunately, the kinds of Americans that most people run into are this 
same way in their private lives also. They oscillate disturbingly between 
stunned cows and mad cows with it being extremely difficult to tell which 
of these two is preferable. Would that it was an easy choice to make


I count myself fortunate that I have met enough Americans to know that this 
kind of thing is indeed not typical, although some of the stupidities that 
I have seen Americans bandy about even in this relatively enlightened forum 
has started to make me want to revisit this issue. But ... fortunately for 
all the US citizens on this list I am made of considerably more optimistic 
stuff and am a very patient man. My gods and my ancestors, whom some of you 
have seen fit to disparage, have made me that way and I thank them for it.

Maybe ... just maybe ... it would help if more Americans left home a bit 
more and found out a bit more about the world so that most people in the 
world are not left with you all obviously feel is this kind of flagrantly 
false impression of what Americans are really like and actually like.

Who knows ... i such a thing were to happen then maybe Americans might also 
learn a bit more about what the rest of the world is really like also. I 
count myself fortunate that I have been able to travel and find out for 
myself. However, Americans are the ones with all the money. Maybe they 
should spend it on travelling around a bit and going to other places for it 
is certain that most people on this planet are way too impoverished to 
return the courtesy. In any case, thanks to Mr. Bush Americans enjoy air 
supremacy pretty much everywhere now.

Nothing I have said in this email was intended to be inflammatory. However, 
if in spite of all my efforts I have written anything that can be construed 
that way then I would be obliged if some American would tell me what it is 
-- preferably in kindness and with good grace -- and they will have my 
immediate apology forthwith and I shall cease from trying to make this 
point for surely it will have proved itself and entirely worthless point to 
try to make. Maybe my descendants will fare better in trying to make it 
which is pretty much all I will have left to hope for.

Kool Musick
Kool Musick Kool

  


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