hmm, living in San Francisco and supposedly a lifelong republican - somehow
I doubt it, but gosh if Eileen and John say that President Bush is the
worst, then it must be true - NOT

At 02:29 PM 9/29/2004, Michael Baier wrote:
>According to Americans (Democrats and Republicans) one of the worst is GWB.
>
>The Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq invasion have made a huge difference in
>the attitude of Americans abroad about voting.
>
>Democrats and Republicans feel they are bearing the brunt of a growing anti-
>Americanism not felt by those back home.
>
>"This administration's foreign policy has been devastating to our image
>abroad," said Eileen Wilkinson of Democrats Abroad in Rome.
>
>John Potter is a 60-year-old investment banker from San Francisco who has
>lived for 25 years in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain, home to the U.S.
>Navy's 5th Fleet. A lifelong Republican, he says he's voting for Democrat
>John Kerry.
>
>"I'm certainly not keen on President Bush," said Potter. "Invading Iraq was
>a stupid thing to do."
>
>Some say the outcome of the election matters greatly to citizens of other
>nations that bear the consequences of Washington's actions. One American
>has gone so far as to give his vote to Malaysians.
>
>Eric Ossemig, a 38-year-old ex-Army soldier from Flagstaff, Ariz., is
>asking Malaysians to chose Bush or Kerry over the Internet, and says he'll
>cast his absentee ballot for whomever they choose.
>
>"What may happen in some far-flung corner of the planet increasingly
>affects us all, like geopolitical tectonic plates," said Ossemig, a travel
>writer and photographer who has lived in Malaysia for 14 years. "I'm not
>voting my vote, I'm voting Malaysia's vote."
>
>The site http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/30215s) says it has
>encountered "several attempts to manipulate the outcome" with multiple
>votes. It gives Kerry a strong lead.
>
>Republicans also are determined to get out the vote overseas, placing
>campaign ads in the International Herald Tribune and Stars and Stripes.
>
>Mark Simon, 40, from Falls Church, Va., is an advertising director for a
>Chinese-language newspaper and vice chairman of Republicans Abroad in Hong
>Kong. He acknowledged Democrats in Hong Kong were doing more volunteer
>registrations and were better organized than the local GOP.
>
>"Defending George Bush at dinner parties with a lot of expats around is not
>easy," Simon said. "The fierce opposition to Bush ... kind of blunts the
>whole rah-rah attitude."
>
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:17:58 -0400, Tim Cummings
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >It just goes to show you that the WORST presidents in history needed every
> >day in office to do as much damage as possible.  Carter is the prime
> >example.  Nice guy, but by far the worst president.
> >
> >Tim
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Gehan Gehale [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:57 PM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Good reason not to elect Kerry
> >
> >
> >> The previous holder of the office was playing grabass with Monica
> >> while this was going on.
> >
> >
> >At least Clinton was in the oval office for that grabass, I'm not even
> >sure bush knows where the oval office is... I think he spends all his
> >time at the ranch, or in the presidential play pen....
> >
> >Bush Jr. has taken 250 days off as of August 2003. That's 27% of his
> >presidency spent on vacation.
> >
> >As of December 1999, President Bill Clinton had spent only 152 days on
> >holiday during his two terms
> >
> >George Bush Sr. took all or part of 543 vacation days
> >
> >Ronald Reagan spent 335 days during his eight years in office.
> >
> >Jimmy Carter took only 79 days
> >
> >
> >http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20031001.html
> >
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