Reply #230: Reporting that many people are uneasy with the guy....

[tx_dem41]

is not the same as making a comment about the validity of the charges. I just spent 2.5 weeks in the UK, Beligium, and the Netherlands. This was during the run-up to the election, the election night, and the aftermath. I watched the returns in a British pub in Brussels full of Brits, a few I knew personally. They are lefties. And, guess what. I can report the same thing that Kiki reported. There are more than a few lefties in the UK that either don't like the guy and/or don't trust the guy. On another matter, there was a great deal of resentment that he basically carpetbagged onto an East London constituency (remember he's from Glasgow) and took a seat away from one of the few women of color in the Parliament.

Anyway, I'm reporting what some people from the UK said they feel about him. None of these people are for the war. None of these people like Blair now. Most voted Lib-Dem (as I would have voted had I been a Brit). Am I attacking him? No. Am I passing along any opinion of the validity of their feelings? No. I'm reporting what people that are like us (leftie, anti-war), who actually are much more familiar with the guy, said about him. I feel that is what Kiki was doing.

Thanks for hearing me out.