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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (428295)	7/17/2003 10:25:23 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

About 20 years ago, I knew a French couple visiting the States, staying with a friend, the wife having majored in English in college, and being quite articulate. I volunteered to guide them around Washington one day. The wife went on and on about how much freer the atmosphere was in America. At first, I chalked it off to being on vacation. But one of the places I took them was the Mazza Galleria, and upscale mall on the border with Bethesda. We ran into a women who had come from France a number of years before, as an immigrant, and who was now running a boutique in the mall, and she agreed that the United States was incomparably free. What struck me is that they were not exactly coming from a police state, but noticed the greater social mobility and ease with which people comported themselves, the sense of opportunity and even opulence, the air of confidence and expansiveness of expression........