http://www.illation.net/travelblog/2008/11/06/great-events/ Observations and meditations upon peripatetics Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:13:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.illation.net/travelblog/2008/11/06/great-events/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Terran Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:44:01 +0000 http://www.illation.net/travelblog/?p=196#comment-44 To be clear: nobody has ever given *us* grief about being American. The general attitude we have gotten (from quite a few people at this point) is: "We like Americans just fine. It's *Bush* that we hate. But we really can't understand why you elected him *twice*." To be clear: nobody has ever given *us* grief about being American. The general attitude we have gotten (from quite a few people at this point) is: “We like Americans just fine. It’s *Bush* that we hate. But we really can’t understand why you elected him *twice*.”

]]> http://www.illation.net/travelblog/2008/11/06/great-events/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Tanner Lovelace Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:58:30 +0000 http://www.illation.net/travelblog/?p=196#comment-43 Wow. That's interesting to hear. Spain, ever since they became a democracy after Franco, has always been a strong ally of the U.S. In all my travels throughout Spain, I've never felt any unease at people finding out I was American. Here's hoping out new administration can rebuild a lot of the bridges that were burned in the last administration. It certainly sounds like the Spaniards would be receptive to that. Wow. That’s interesting to hear. Spain, ever since they became a democracy after Franco, has always been a strong ally of the U.S. In all my travels throughout Spain, I’ve never felt any unease at people finding out I was American. Here’s hoping out new administration can rebuild a lot of the bridges that were burned in the last administration. It certainly sounds like the Spaniards would be receptive to that.

]]>