>>>>>>>>>>>On behalf of America let me thank you for your opinion. We'll take it under advisement, before swearing in President McCain.
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>>>>>>>>>>>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/09/2360240.htm?section=world
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>>>>>>>>>>We can take it. Anything is an improvement on George.
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>>>>>>>>>Sorry, but I would not rely on your promise here. Firstly, if McCain is elected then your side will immediately label him as ultra-rightist, ignorant, imperialistic, etc. Secondly, would you like to see President Palin?
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>>>>>>>>My side ?
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>>>>>>>Do you claim 'independent position'?
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>>>>>>>>I think the perception here is that Mc Cain is not as extreme as the Bush Cheney camp. He may have had to shift to get the nomination and toe the religious right republican line but when (if) he gets elected he may allow his previous line in independent thinking to re surface.
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>>>>>>>>As for President Palin I'd be happy and sad in equal parts. Happy because it would be very interesting and sad because she just may be a nutter and not the sort of person you want running your country.
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>>>>>>>You seem to be a very emotional person if president elected in another country can make you sad or happy.
>>>>>>>By the way, if you use the word "you" in the last sentence referring specifically to me then your concerns are misplaced.
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>>>>>>No thats you in terms of your side.
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>>>>>What's the difference then? Both ways it's misplaced.
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>>>>>>The election of the US president is (unfortunately) of great concern to everyone outside the US. Whoever gets elected we (the rest of the world) have to live with. Its not just another country. If George Bush had not been elected would there be UK soldiers dying every week in Afghanistan and Iraq. No. Would we be further down the road to sensible energy policies. Yes. Its that sort of thing that makes me interested.
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>>>>>It is a stretch, imho. Do you mean that Bush is responsible for dead UK soldiers? It indicates that you consider your country subservient to very big extent. What kind of emotions it invokes in you?
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>>>>I can't fathom what was in Blairs mind when he forced through our involvement in Iraq. Yes we where subservient and we would have done the US more of a favour by not getting involved.
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>>>I like your reaction. By the way, I remind our talk some time ago where you said that you are firmly behind Afghanistan policy. Does my memory serve me correctly?
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>>I said that. Nicholas might have felt the same way, I'm not sure, but those words were mine.
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>I don't mind having a volunteer here, but I assure you that nothing terrible could happen with Nicholas. It might easily happen that you both said it. Anyway, I would like to see what he says. After all, it is not an insult, I hope, to assume that someone is firmly behind that policy.

No issue. I just recognised the phrase from one of my notes to you is all.