News From Abroad

We're back from Italy. We taveled with Kerry buttons prominently displayed and foreigners approached us in surprising numbers. Italians, Brits, Swiss, New Zealanders and Aussies all wanted to talk about the upcoming election. We were struck by the uniform attitude of sympathy for the American people and bewilderment at what has happened to our government. Everyone wanted to know how it could be that someone like George Bush is our President. Everyone wished us luck in defeating Bush. Last Friday on the subway in Rome, we gave our last extra Kerry button to a Brazilian student who begged us for the button and urged us to keep fighting. And Saturday night we had dinner with an Italian family intrigued by the big story in Europe that Bush was wearing a wire during the first debate. Sadly, it would seem that we are all diminished by this President.