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2004-01-30 Down Under

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Posted by tipper 2004-01-30 8:59:43 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The truth is that Americans are a very wise and sophisticated people who very often affect a folksy style

"Dang, Beauregard- we bin found out. Did yew leave yer biotechnology books on the cee-ment porch agin?"

Posted by Pappy 2004-1-30 9:37:52 PM|| 2004-1-30 9:37:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 A nation founded by convicts and a nation founded by rebels are in the eyes of the EUnuchs the same thing. You are well respected and in good company Oz.

Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-30 9:47:12 PM|| 2004-1-30 9:47:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sometimes I feel like the whole World is against us, and then I read something like this. At least we know who our real friends are... God Bless you Australia.

Posted by Stupid American 2004-1-30 9:52:57 PM|| 2004-1-30 9:52:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Posted my opinion at my website seconds before coming here, although I don't think we "affect" folksiness: The folksy people I admire are authentic. What you see is what you get.

Posted by Ptah 2004-1-30 10:04:37 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-1-30 10:04:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 SHHHHhhh, John Ray, don tel 'em SMART u-rope-peens 'at we ain't as dumb as we look. It's sometimes an advantage to be under estimated by your adversaries. And unfortunately, the European elitists have taken an adversarial position.Thanks again John for your post.

Posted by Gasse Katze 2004-1-30 10:11:36 PM|| 2004-1-30 10:11:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 folksy is good way of describing one of the reasons I liked bush.

give me bush (in my politics and bed) or give me death!

Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-30 10:16:57 PM|| 2004-1-30 10:16:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Gee, d'ya think maybe the European (and other) elitists misunderestimate Americans?

Thank you, John Ray. Bless you, Australia.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-1-30 10:18:10 PM|| 2004-1-30 10:18:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 For that bit of praise I'd be tempted to offer the Aussie's statehood. But that would be insulting. We may have our disagreements with Oz and they with us but in my opinion they are the only true friend we have in the Pacific. The NZs are to self absorbed in their own New Age Bull Shit to see the way the world is going(they are todays isolationists)Japan will look out for Japan(that's fine, its what nation states do)China still sees themselves as the Middle Kingdom, Heaven n one side the Barbarians on the other. And speaking of Barbarians Indonesia will in my opinion be the big problem in the next 20 years

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-1-30 10:54:42 PM|| 2004-1-30 10:54:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 For that bit of praise I'd be tempted to offer the Aussie's statehood. But that would be insulting. We may have our disagreements with Oz and they with us but in my opinion they are the only true friend we have in the Pacific. The NZs are to self absorbed in their own New Age Bull Shit to see the way the world is going(they are todays isolationists)Japan will look out for Japan(that's fine, its what nation states do)China still sees themselves as the Middle Kingdom, Heaven n one side the Barbarians on the other. And speaking of Barbarians Indonesia will in my opinion be the big problem in the next 20 years

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-1-30 10:55:56 PM|| 2004-1-30 10:55:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Sorry about the double post.I hit the back button to many times

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-1-30 10:56:43 PM|| 2004-1-30 10:56:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Excellent rant! Although I don't agree with his conclusions. The problem is in eye of the beholder. If you want to know the real reason that large numbers of supposedly intelligent people particularly in Europe, although Australia has a goodly number, think Bush+Americans are stupid, then the answer lies in what psychologists call cognitive dissonance.

If you and almost everyone you know thinks one way, but others think differently, then especially if those others appear to be richer, smarter and more succesful than you, then you unconciously rationalize it away by concluding they must be evil and stupid.

Posted by phil_b 2004-1-30 11:10:27 PM|| 2004-1-30 11:10:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The crowning irony is that even the Hate America Cult and the pop-culture left are largely American inventions. Howard Zinn? Noam Chomsky? Michael Moore? In fact, a young (32 iirc)genius named Thomas Frank has documented the advertising industry's creation of the modern Left in a remarkable book called The Conquest of Cool.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-1-31 12:32:00 AM|| [http://www.nuclearspace.com] 2004-1-31 12:32:00 AM|| Front Page Top

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