[Rhodes22-list] Soup or Tuesday

[Steven Alm]

Slavery?  Huh?  In my travels to Europe and South America nobody mentioned
slavery but they universally hate Bush.

On Feb 5, 2008 3:37 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:

> Well put, and THAT I would agree with, except the last statement.
>
> I don't believe the world will care one way or another. The world's
> hatred of the US is not legitimate. We have numerous noteworthy events
> in our history, and "the world" ignores them. For instance, they
> concentrate on our slavery issue, when they ignore the fact the many (I
> would almost say most) of them condoned slavery longer than we have been
> in existance as a nation. Slavery lasted less than a century in our
> country.
>
> Believe it or not, I even agree with you about voting for Obama over
> Hillary. Fortunately, for me at least, there WILL be another option.
>
> All the talk earlier about supporting our Allies - I bet you that if
> Obama is elected, our current allies in Iraq are NOT going to  have the
> highly esteemed view of the US that you are predicting. That's a prime
> example of NOT standing by our allies.
>
> Steven Alm wrote:
> > "I specifically spoke to a very specific email, one that touted nothing
> > about a candidate except how much better he's going to make us look to
> > the rest of the world."
> >
> > Herb, you're right. I said little more than that about Obama.  To
> clarify,
> > I'm not voting for him because he's black.  I'm voting for him because I
> > think he's the better choice over Hillary.  But because he's black, I
> think
> > the collective heart of the planet will skip a beat if he's elected.
>  The
> > world will never look at the USA the same again and that's a good thing.
> >
> > Slim
> >
> >
> --
> Herb Parsons
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