>>>Go read Message #1509468 and ask yourself if maybe you want to retract that :)
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>>Makes my point in a way.
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>Just curious, because though we tend to differ about some things we always manage amicable humor as well : did you see what I posted to our friend from Kazakhstan as abusive in any way? I certainly didn't mean it that way. He seemed to come away from Mike's message with the impression that Obama had not in fact been born in the US and I was trying to clarify it all for him using English sentence structures which I thought were clearer for a non-native speaker. ( and in fact President Nursultan Nazarbayev had been relelected for another 5 year term with over 95% percent of the vote on April 11 of this year. )
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>Mike's reaction certainly didn't bother me, but I felt said more about Mike than about me.
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>But if you saw it differently I would be interested to know.

Charles, you did not ask my opinion but I'll give it anyways :)

The message up to the last sentence was perfect, but that last sentence I read it as irony, like "unlike your corrupt country where the president got 95% of the vote", I might be wrong or not, but that is the way I read it, and if you were directing that to me, to Argentina, I would thoroughly agree with you and chuckle, but it might be offensive for others and you were directing the message to someone new.

[Update]Of course I do not justify Mike's words!![/Update]