[Vnbiz] a few McCain achievements for Vietnam

Wed Feb 27 07:17:05 PST 2008

>From what you've listed, even without providing any of the reports you say
you could, neither of the whole two points you listed makes it look like
McCain has done all that much for VietNam.

And, frankly, why would anyone expect any US politician to have been
focusing much of their energy on helping VietNam?  (Not to suggest they
shouldn't have done so, a long time ago...)

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM, <pthang at comcast.net> wrote:

> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
>
> I admit I don't know everything. But I have read and certainly could find
> past articles to show these facts:
>
> 1. McCain worked hard to normalize relationship with Vietnam while many of
> his colleagues opposed.
> 2. McCain defended the importation of catfish for Vietnam . Vietnam has to
> go extra step to change the name catfish to basa .  The amount of
> importation is not that big because Vietnam is not big country like China .
> Any way, vietnamese in VN appreciated his effort .
>
> McCain knows Vietnam more than anybody else, understand its need for
> independence, its defense and its quest for peace and economic prosperity .
>
>
> That is something I know for sure. I also would like to know ANYBODY ELSE
> has done more than McCain for Vietnam.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Thang pham
>
>
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: pthang at comcast.net
> > [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: pthang at comcast.net
> To: vnbiz at vietlinks.net
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:56:45 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Vnbiz] Obama
> Brothers and sisters
>
> I have watched John Kerry and the Kennedy families trying to promote
> Obama.
> The only thing I got is Obama was against the war in Iraq. Imagine Al
> queada just slammed two airplanes
> into the twin buildings and killed 3000 peoples in a single day . At that
> time, he was not well known and his  signature gets lost among many others
> in the vote to invade Iraq .
> Now he comes out and claims a JACKPOT  of opposing the invasion of Iraq.
>
> Anh Hoanh and I , myself opposed the invasion from  the beginning. We
> should come out and claim the Jackpot too.
>
> Anyway, it is obvious now that Obama will win the democratic nomination
> now.  As a vietnamese, we all knew McCain has been always the champion and
>  has worked his heart out to bring peace and prosperity to Vietnam even
> after he has been tortured by the North Vietnamese for 5 years .
>
> I am sure McCain will favor trade with Vietnam over China because he
> understands the strategic and economic position in Asia to help Vietnam to
> maintain peace and prosperity .  Bush 's father did not make the mistake in
> Iraq  as his son did due arrogance. It all boils down to  experiences
> learned by the hard way . Based on FACTS, my democrat VOTE will go to McCain
> regardless of Clinton or Obama.
>
> Thang Pham
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "AD Marshall" <admarshall at gmail.com>
> > [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
> >
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "AD Marshall" <admarshall at gmail.com>
> To: vnbiz at vietlinks.net
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:22:33 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Vnbiz] Obama
> Dear Jackie,
>
> I'm still working on a bit of a 6-month news-coverage summary of Obama, as
> time permits, under the now somewhat popular premise that the more people
> get to know Obama the more they like him.
>
> But apropos your comment "that pollsters/pundits were wrong about
> Asians/Viet Americans being some sort of a monolithic Pro-Hillary 'bloc
> vote'", here's one fairly active site i found:
> http://www.asianamericansforobama.com/
>
> Here's a Google search URL folks can use to find info about Vietnam or
> Vietnamese on that site:
>
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aasianamericansforobama.com+vietnam+OR+vietnamese
>
> L8r,
> AD
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Jackie Nelson <ephemeropterae at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
> >
> >
> > Dear all,
> > Thanks for much thoughtful discussion regarding our next US President.
> >
> > I realize this list is Viet Nam-business-centric, but nevertheless,
> > pleased to hear a variety of opinions regarding who the next USA Prez will
> > be.
> > Especially enjoy hearing that pollsters/pundits were wrong about
> > Asians/Viet Americans being some sort of a monolithic Pro-Hillary 'bloc
> > vote'.
> >
> > We are a diverse group and never short of opinions :-)
> >
> > Hope to hear more of your opinions (overseas, ex-pats, and non
> > AMericans too!) and experiences in the year to come.
> >
> > Jackie (N. Carolina, USA)
> >
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