Dems vs. Repubs: A View from SE Asia

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Tuesday October 27, 2009 · 9:55 PM PDT

2009/10/27 · 21:55

The first time I lived in Southeast Asia, my wife and I spent a year in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was 1994-95 and Bill Clinton was a relatively new American president - in the first half of his first term. When the ASEAN conference came to Jakarta in 1994, I was amazed at the reaction to the Big Dog. People simply loved him. He was a star. He didn’t have to say anything, just stand there, smile, shake hands and slap backs in his inimitable fashion...the Indonesians were smitten. I asked a few local people about the previous president, George H.W. Bush.

"Bush is a bad man" was the simple reply.

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