Albright would have been with Fullbright. 2 Halfbrights. On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:53 AM, dick thompson <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm speechless about this speech: > > Madeleine Albright, a democratic expert on foreign policy, let her hair > down during arecent speech <http://www.relero.com/main.php?id=3> to > Russian students in Omsk. The former Secretary of State told her audience > that America no longer had the intention of being the first nation of the > world. > Pravda <http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/109362-1/> reported the > news that the US media ignored: > > Madeleine Albright said during the meeting that *America no longer had the > intention of being the first nation of the world*. > > Ms. Albright started her speech in Russian. “Hello and thank you! It’s a > pleasure for me to be here,” she said in Russian. Albright wrote in her > autobiography that she was trying to learn some Russian during the 1960s. > > The former US Secretary of State surprised the audience with her speech. > She particularly said that *democracy was not the perfect system*. “It can > be contradictory, corrupt and may have security problems,” Albright said. > > America has been having hard times recently, Albright said. > > “We have been talking about our exceptionalism during the recent eight > years. *Now, an average American wants to stay at home – they do not need > any overseas adventures. We do not need new enemies,*” Albright said > adding that Beijing, London and Delhi became a serious competition for > Washington and New York. > > Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) <http://www.pal2pal.com/> | September 19, 2009 > at 01:13 > AM<http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/09/holders-show-investigation-winding-down.html?cid=6a00d83451b2aa69e20120a5d8dcc3970c#comment-6a00d83451b2aa69e20120a5d8dcc3970c> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
