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If we ever can't get along with New Zealand, we've really got big problems!>>
>>Things are OK now. But for quite a while, the US systematically punished NZ for its anti-nuclear stance. A free trade deal was blocked for years- NZ was able to strike deals with China and Russia before the US would budge. Just for interest, see
http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=3516 ;-) FWIW I'm not sure whether NZ even appears on Obama's radar, especially in view of all the local difficulties as well as the protectionist farming lobbies in the US.
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>Kiwi fruit still comes from NZ, of course. Also lots of apples.
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>I truly do not envy whichever man is elected. We have so many problems right now, no one could solve all or even most of them quickly. It won't stop people from complaining or blaming the President, though.
The big difference is if Obama is elected and he wants to visit NZ he can walk.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
