[Vnbiz] US president election under the eye of a vietnamese

Fri Feb 22 18:25:16 PST 2008

Good Morning NAm (North America)!

Dear Brother HoAnh,

Of course mine was a spuriously baiting question originally aimed at little
more than dishing a bit more dirt about the McPresidential contender.
Thats' politics, US-stylee.  :-)

And beyond your point, if i know VietNam like you know VietNam, then VietNam
would give all appearances of happily work together with a clone of Adolf
Hitler if he were the leader of the biggest, richest consumer market on
earth, as long as neither he nor his nation didn't harm VietNam's immediate
interests.

But my question was actually just a quick way of signing off for the night
without thinking much more about the significance of that particular
breaking McCain news.

Now, as the *ca-phe* clears the cobwebs from my cortices, i can ask the more
pertinent questions about that report, McCain more broadly, and now, your
response:

   1. How wise or even ethical can a leader be if publicly wishes for the
   early death of another person? (Remember that US claims against Castro's
   regime are quite debatable outside the US and even Canada, among many other
   responsible, "free" nations, is willing to risk US wrath by keeping up
   diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba. As well, US violations of human
   rights are hardly unheard of outside the US and the scale on which they've
   occurred, intentionally or not, could well dwarf anything Cuba has ever
   done. Remember how much most folks in the US were willing to going along
   with the Bushies oil grab in Iraq in 2003 and how much they support that
   now.)
   2. More simply, just how "presidential" or even politic is such a
   malicious public expression? Should a man prone to saying such things in
   public be given a chance to be put into public office?
   3. If McCain would be, as he's also publicly stated, proud to stand by
   Georgie Bush, Jr, perhaps the most nefarious of any US president to date,
   how can he be trusted to lead the US away from the sort of leadership the
   Bushes have dogged the US with for the last decade or so? (Remember Iraq and
   the massive Clinton surplus the Bush gang turned into a massive deficit, the
   fact the Canadian dollar hadn't had parity with the US dollar for over 40
   years before Bush and the fact the Iraq war was deceptively promoted and
   prosecuted by the Bush/GOP gang.)
   4. If you were a US politician with presidential aspirations who
   received a letter from a Washington lawyer who claimed to have published it
   for a major US ethnic constituency, wouldn't you politely reply as well?
   Isn't the premise of your anecdote questionable, too?
   5. If you, Brother HoAnh, have been, as you've just stated, soundly
   against the Iraq war, why would you support a presidential contender who has
   publicly stated he wouldn't mind keeping US troops in Iraq for another 100
   years while claiming he can't see the connection between that war and the
   current US economic problems?

Sorry about any typos or editorial gaffes. Had to rush this off, yet again.
Gotta run...

With warm wishes, later,
AD

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:

> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
>
> Dear brother Ad,
>
> You ask: "If Vietnam likes Marx and Castro (even if only publicly), how
> good can McCain ultimately be for Vietnam?"
>
> I think the premise of your question is questionable :-)  It is like "If I
> like Hillary and you don't like Hillary, can you and I like each other."  Of
> course we can like each other (unless you say you can't :-) .  The two parts
> of the question may not have any relationship at all.
>  But here is McCain and Vietnam.  Since I worked on US-Vietnam
> relationship in 1989, McCain has been the earliest Senator to support
> US-Vietnam relationship, at a time when almost the entire US government was
> still against such relationship.  Does that kind of record say something?
>
> BTW, around 1992 or so, I wrote a newspaper article on overseas Vietnamese
> press, against political violence in the Vietnamese community and sent
> to Senator McCain an English translation of that.  He sent me a nice
> thank-you letter (but I lost his letter a long time ago).
>
> Have a great day, Ad.
>
> Hoanh
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:41 PM, AD Marshall <admarshall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
> >
> >
> > Mo' breakin' McCain news:
> >
> > McCain hopes Castro to "meet Marx soon"<http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2257627420080222?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&sp=true>
> > Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:18am EST
> > By Jason Szep
> >
> > INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner John
> > McCain suggested on Friday that he hoped retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro
> > would die soon and said Castro's brother will be a worse leader.
> >
> > "I hope he has the opportunity to meet Karl Marx very soon," McCain told
> > a town-hall style meeting of about 150 people, referring to communist
> > theoretician Marx who died on March 14, 1883.
> >
> > [snip - full Reuters report under link above]
> >
> > Question: If VietNam likes Marx and Castro (even if only publicly), how
> > good can McCain ultimately be for VietNam?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tran Dinh Hoanh, Esq., LLB, JD
> > Washington DC
>
>
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