On 12/7/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/7/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... Has Doug already put you on his show? It seems now would
> be the good time for your commentary on the electoral postmortem,
electoral postmodernism?
;-)
Oops, that was a wrong word for elections in Venezuela. Having lived
in the States for over a decade, I have gotten too used to my kind of
men (let alone my kind of women) not getting on ballots at all. :->
Only in Latin America and the Middle East can I hope for a victory*.
* <blockquote>Banners condemn Jeffrey D. Feltman, the U.S. ambassador
in Lebanon, who is often a target of Nasrallah's speeches. "The
government of Feltman," one slogan reads, "We'll bring it down." A
homemade billboard was set up near Hussein Ismail, a 15-year-old
protester from the southern town of Kafra. Under a picture of Siniora
and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, it read, "Congratulations to
the bride and groom." Another pictured the two shaking hands. "Peace
with the enemies," it read.
"This is a struggle with a government that is not Lebanese but rather
American," he said. "We want a Lebanese government that doesn't take
its decisions from the Americans and the Zionists."
Behind Ismail was another poster of Nasrallah. "He promised a victory,
and a victory is coming, just like he said." (Anthony Shadid, "With
Street Protests, Hezbollah Gambles in Quest for Dominance," Washington
Post, 6 December 2006, A14,
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/05/AR2006120501292.html>)</blockquote>
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Yoshie
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