>> More of the world hates the Palins than hate the U.S. If you had to deal with haters and public criticism every single day at that age, who knows which one would finally cause you to lose your cool. It may not even be the worst or one that you would think was so awful.
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>Sometimes even you (with your great expirience abroad and span of news/internet sources) overestimate the importance of political wannabees of the sligthly crazed american candidate system / selfstyled heavyweights channeling "the" current mainstream mood for the rest of the globe.
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>Palin is mostly off european national radars except as an oddity, and I am quite sure it is the same for most other countries. That is if/until she gets a position of influence - remember, I SAID you sport a crazy system...
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>Only wrote this as there was no smiley in your post...
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>thomas

:o) I'm sure I get a lot wrong. :o)