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To: LindyBill who wrote (279525)	11/8/2008 4:42:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793957

Quiet anti-Americanism? Well, in as much as most people around the world prefer not to adopt USA cultural norms, that's true, but it's a stretch to claim that in political terms. In fact, it's ignorant. Helen Clark isn't ant-American. Being politically opposed to George W Bush, Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld is hardly being "anti-American" though the Rabid Republican Right has confused themselves into thinking they are the one true Americans. Being opposed to the Vietnam war [Clark's political beginnings] wasn't anti-American either other than in a narrow sense. I don't know what he means about the moral equivalency idea either and it's Clark without an e. < Clarke, who has distingusihed herself with quiet anti-Americanism and moral equivalency, will now seek to transfer herself to the United Nations, where she aspires to be the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.> It's a pretty good bet that she'd like to be boss of the UN now and inflict socialism and Big Sisterhood on everyone else, redistributing wealth from me, Obama and co to the rest, mostly her political power base. Today, John Key will get a shock [though I'm sure he can guess] when "the books are opened" and he sees the financial disaster he has been handed. New Zealanders have borrowed NZ$170 billion to revalue their houses higher, make each other coffees, take overseas holidays, buy more beer, fill their credit cards, buy more second hand cars from Japan and buy lots of petrol. The government has taxed all that by half and has built a huge bureaucratic klepotocracy, funding welfare, child torture and murder and poured it down the drain in a million ways. Now, it's time to pay the bills. Good luck to John Key, he'll need it. Mqurice