'The Most Popular Politician on Earth'

[navuta]

For nearly seven years, he's done a spectacular job as Brazil's president.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is Brazil's unlikely hero.
He grew up so poor, he didn't find out what bread was until he was 7. That was Lula's age when he climbed onto a flatbed truck with his Brazilian dirt-farmer family and all their possessions and made the 1,900-mile journey from the country's northeastern dustbowl for a life in the slums of São Paulo. He dropped out of school in the fifth grade, shined shoes on the street, and went to work in a factory at 14, losing a finger to a lathe in an accident on the graveyard shift at an auto-parts plant. Eventually he rose through the rank and file to become an internationally respected union leader. A military junta ruled Brazil back then, and strikes were illegal, but he defied the generals and the bosses and practically shut down the continent's industrial powerhouse in the name of the steelworkers.
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I voted on him, and Im on his walk to politics since 89...
Im so happy that he is our president.. He is so lovely.

[GloBug]

well ive never heard of him. u might think he has the best in the world but in order to be that you have to do something for the world and i dont htink he has done that. maybe he is the best for brazil.

[taylovesthebeatles]

If he's got anything to do with that stupid fee you have to pay for receiving gifts in your country like the Wii, then he can't be that great can he?

[sweetpea]

Maybe if our presidents did more for American citizens than they do for the world, they'd be more popular too.

[navuta]

Maybe if our presidents did more for American citizens than they do for the world, they'd be more popular too.

lol...

[eejit101]

Yes.... a government that taxes people 65% on gifts they recieve that are alrady opaid for...

That guy is a legend.

Shoot him for someone who doesnt charge to recieve mail ffs