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[Gil White <gil.white AT xplornet.com>]

I can't help but wonder what kind of furor there would have been if Obama had 
responded in the same way our Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau had answered one 
of his hecklers in parliament back in the 70's ( prime minister from 
1968-1984 ).

Pierre was fluent in both French and English and taught an entire generation 
of english Canadians the phrase "mange la merde" which if you don't 
understand French involves suggesting that someone consume large quantity of 
manure.

The sad thing is that at least on this side of the border politics has become 
more tame since then.

Gil

On Sep 11, 2009, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:

You're use to the politics of the later half of the 1900s. Early politics 
included polticians dueling, standing on opposing street corners and 
screaming at each other, having people in the audience egg them. And so 
forth and so on.