Australia

We host the fellow and then he denigrates our country! If it was a
dictatorship we could ban the ill-mannered windbag from entering again.
Albert

Badwater Bill Dec 17, 7:39 pm Subject: Australia
Your government is half way between a democracy and a dictatorship blah
blah ..
BWB

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:07:29 UTC, wrote:

We host the fellow and then he denigrates our country! If it was a
dictatorship we could ban the ill-mannered windbag from entering again.
Albert

Badwater Bill Dec 17, 7:39 pm Subject: Australia
Your government is half way between a democracy and a dictatorship blah
blah ..
BWB


Now, now, Albert, you have to remember he's a septic. They think
everything is better there and that their model is democracy, so
anything different isn't.

I know you and I would find it puzzling that a person can get elected
'president' by less than half the people voting at an election,
especially when only about 30% of the electorate even bother to vote,
and we might might feel the need to point out the dictatorial aspects
of said 'president' being able to declare war on the rest of the world
without first getting approval from a parliament, let alone the
populace, his use of propaganda to control public sentiment ... but
we must constrain ourselves and remember that they don't know any
better.....


Chris

besides which, he has a point - I mean, John Howard!
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:07:29 UTC, wrote:

We host the fellow and then he denigrates our country! If it was a
dictatorship we could ban the ill-mannered windbag from entering again.
Albert

Badwater Bill Dec 17, 7:39 pm Subject: Australia
Your government is half way between a democracy and a dictatorship blah
blah ..
BWB



Albert

Allow another American to apologize on behalf of most of the rest of us. In
Bill's defense though - that was the politest I've ever seen him ;^}.

As for Australia's political system - You have a "Parliamentary Democracy" -
we have a "Republic". Both have their good and bad points. And both look
better than the other to their own.

What really puzzles us, as Americans, is the economic system. Socialism will
lose to Capitalism every time...I suspect that's what Bill meant.

Ron Webb wrote:
"Chris Lasdauskas" wrote in message
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:07:29 UTC, wrote:


We host the fellow and then he denigrates our country! If it was a
dictatorship we could ban the ill-mannered windbag from entering again.
Albert

Badwater Bill Dec 17, 7:39 pm Subject: Australia
Your government is half way between a democracy and a dictatorship blah
blah ..
BWB



Albert

Allow another American to apologize on behalf of most of the rest of us. In
Bill's defense though - that was the politest I've ever seen him ;^}.

As for Australia's political system - You have a "Parliamentary Democracy" -
we have a "Republic". Both have their good and bad points. And both look
better than the other to their own.

What really puzzles us, as Americans, is the economic system. Socialism will
lose to Capitalism every time...I suspect that's what Bill meant.


Why the hell do people do that? You probably don't speak for anyone here.

Ron,
I've lived and worked in the U.S. and was in the Australian army in
Vietnam and was in locations where I faced the enemy with U.S. troops
so I know American characteristics well. They are generous and open
people - just like most people around the world when you get to know
them.
There's no excuse for publicly badmouthing another man's country as
Bill did.
Cheers,
Albert

Ron Webb wrote:
Albert

Allow another American to apologize on behalf of most of the rest of
us. In
Bill's defense though - that was the politest I've ever seen him ;^}.