Thanks to friend BSL for the following quotes from lefty cartoonist Ted Rall on Common Dreams
CARQUEFOU, FRANCE -- Why do they hate us? And where do they get their
hatred from?
These questions haunted me and three other American visitors as we
studied a huge display of cartoons drawn by local schoolchildren
assigned to convey their impressions of the United States. Panel after
grisly panel depicted the United States ... as murderous, predatory and
gleefully vicious.
We repeatedly explained that there's more to the United States than
George Bush. We pointed out that most voters supported Gore in the last
election, that hundreds of thousands of Americans marched against the
war. We argued that Americans are kind, big-hearted people. French
attendees listened politely, and we were treated with the utmost
kindness and hospitality, but their kids' cartoons screamed: we hate
you. That hurt.
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Thanks to friend BSL for the following quotes from lefty cartoonist Ted Rall on Common Dreams
CARQUEFOU, FRANCE -- Why do they hate us? And where do they get their hatred from?
These questions haunted me and three other American visitors as we studied a huge display of cartoons drawn by local schoolchildren assigned to convey their impressions of the United States. Panel after grisly panel depicted the United States ... as murderous, predatory and gleefully vicious.
We repeatedly explained that there's more to the United States than George Bush. We pointed out that most voters supported Gore in the last election, that hundreds of thousands of Americans marched against the war. We argued that Americans are kind, big-hearted people. French attendees listened politely, and we were treated with the utmost kindness and hospitality, but their kids' cartoons screamed: we hate you. That hurt.
- sally mckay 1-23-2004 6:23 am