{"id":1003,"date":"2007-12-20T10:56:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/another-pro-american-on-the-world-stage\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T14:57:28","slug":"another-pro-american-on-the-world-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Another pro-American on the world stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Myung Bak, decidedly pro-American CEO of Hyudai,\u00c2\u00a0has won the South Korean presidential election, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-korea20dec20,1,3664576.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>;<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Choosing nostalgia for turbocharged economic growth over doubts about ethics, South Koreans handed former businessman Lee Myung-bak a crushing victory in the country&#8217;s presidential election today, returning conservatives to power here after a decade of turbulent liberal rule.<\/p>\n<p>Exit polls conducted by South Korean TV networks suggested Lee&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rokdrop.com\/2007\/12\/20\/lee-myung-bak-elected-next-president-of-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\">ROK Drop<\/a> has the details\u00c2\u00a0on South Korea&#8217;s ruling government&#8217;s attempt to indict Lee before he can take office;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ruling leftists are planning on trying everything in their power to convict Lee of fraud before he is inaugurated in February:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/2007\/12\/19\/korea-hearts-bush\/#more-2622\" target=\"_blank\">Don Surber<\/a> wonders what Bill Clinton was yammering about the other day;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So Bill Clinton says he and Bush 41 will repair the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153damage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the USA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reputation by Bush 43.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Spare us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Canada just elected its first conservative prime minister in a couple of decades, Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">France just elected L\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Americain \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Nicolas Sarkozy \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the most pro-American Frenchman since Lafayette.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Germany dumped that anti-American Schroeder for Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new PM, Gordon Brown, is decidedly pro-American.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Dutch just defied the Muslim radicals by re-upping for another 2 years in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And now, Korea has dumped its anti-American liberal government for conservative Lee Myung Bak, CEO of Hyundai.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">But I&#8217;ve been wondering that for the last 15 years or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Myung Bak, decidedly pro-American CEO of Hyudai,\u00c2\u00a0has won the South Korean presidential election, according to &hellip; <a title=\"Another pro-American on the world stage\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1003\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another pro-American on the world stage<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}