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To: U Up U Down who wrote (40104)	3/16/1999 12:46:00 PM
From: Webster Groves	Respond to of 95453

S&P cuts FLC biz.yahoo.com -wg

To: U Up U Down who wrote (40104)	3/16/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: Mike from La.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

I always thought history's job was to accurately record the times. I didn't know they substituted their own judgements as to what it should have been. Your theory is that history will say,"the general population believed that Clinton was the best post war foreign policy president, but that's because they were stupid." Interesting idea as to the role of historians. Mike

To: U Up U Down who wrote (40104)	3/16/1999 2:27:00 PM
From: dfloydr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

OT: George, I had the same though reading that information about foreign policy poll results. The level of interest in foreign affairs in our country is not high and a poll of the general population shows more that lack of interest than anything else. I am white, born a US citizen in South Africa. I must have been asked a thousand times, in all seriousness why I am not black by people with BA, MA and even Phd degrees. At high school in Connecticut I took over the Current Affairs class when out teacher pointed to Canada while talking about Mexico. She also pointed to the Hudson River while talking about the Mississippi, and thought Denmark was England and Indonesia a part of India. Clinton's policies have me and most people I know pretty amazed ... and not at their brilliance. Remember the huge entourage that went to China last year and came back with one small order for a couple of Boeing planes along with thousands of snap shots of the Great Wall. Remember the huge trip to Moscow. Result: one picture of Bill and Hill at the graduation ceremony for a military academy. If people would like a better measure of our foreign policy they should ask some of our diplomats that are stuck with trying to conduct whatever it is that we have for a policy or perhaps some foreigners who are at a loss as to which way we are likely to jump next. Or maybe all those Africans who were promised tons of aid that has never shown up as of last report.