Lee Myung Bak, decidedly pro-American CEO of Hyudai, has won the South Korean presidential election, according to the LA Times;
Choosing nostalgia for turbocharged economic growth over doubts about ethics, South Koreans handed former businessman Lee Myung-bak a crushing victory in the country’s presidential election today, returning conservatives to power here after a decade of turbulent liberal rule.
Exit polls conducted by South Korean TV networks suggested Lee’s vote count was hovering at 50%, about double that of his nearest rival. It is the biggest landslide in a presidential election since dictatorships gave way to democracy 20 years ago.
ROK Drop has the details on South Korea’s ruling government’s attempt to indict Lee before he can take office;
The ruling leftists are planning on trying everything in their power to convict Lee of fraud before he is inaugurated in February:
Don Surber wonders what Bill Clinton was yammering about the other day;
So Bill Clinton says he and Bush 41 will repair the “damage†to the USA’s reputation by Bush 43.
Spare us.
Canada just elected its first conservative prime minister in a couple of decades, Stephen Harper.
France just elected L’Americain — Nicolas Sarkozy — the most pro-American Frenchman since Lafayette.
Germany dumped that anti-American Schroeder for Angela Merkel.
Britain’s new PM, Gordon Brown, is decidedly pro-American.
The Dutch just defied the Muslim radicals by re-upping for another 2 years in Afghanistan.
And now, Korea has dumped its anti-American liberal government for conservative Lee Myung Bak, CEO of Hyundai.
But I’ve been wondering that for the last 15 years or so.
