Absolut vodka reconfigures North America

supporters, whether right or wrong. Absolute is a government owned company in Sweden. They (that is Sweden) is looking for bidders. they're have been a couple of releases that state that there have been a group of bidders offering billions for the brand. As far as I can tell none of them are tied to mexican beliefs. While this is something to be followed, Absolute will not end up in mexican (nor pro mexican) hands.

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Must see!

How to lose customers in an absolut world class marketing screw-up

Absolut rearrange screwup- US

http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcorrespondent/2390540403/in/...

Of course they are not redrawing Canada's map so talk is cheap for me.
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Isn't it still kindof a little teeny weeny bit funny doncha think...kind of like a short guy who looks in a tall guy mirror at the carnival and keeps the picture on his wall

ok, I'm leaving, head held down in shame

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Oh yeah and that reminds me what is now Canada once claimed Washington and Oregon States. They were ours, really they were LOL

.. I read that article a couple days ago and thought what idiots that advertising agency must be. Along the lines of "let's alienate all of our US customer base".

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/04/mexico-recon...

Holymoly! Folks' fingers were flyin'!

One thousand comments every 30 minutes!

I kept track of it for a while today while I wrote friends about the offending ad. We are really affected by the illegal alien invasion here in Southern California.
You really should check out the article and comments...UNbelievable...it's causing a firestorm of controversy.

LA Times Comments
Saturday, April 5

6,892 ~ 4:20pm

7,858 ~ 4:50pm

(Saw this at the LA Times...from an astute gentleman...)

Here is a comment from a Mexican in the US:

Fabricio Says:
April 3, 2008 at 2:34 am

I was born and raised end educated in Mexico, this has got to be the
biggest sour grapes ad ever. We lost tons of what was then OUR territory,
because we were weak, stupid and corrupt, no one in Mexico cared about 2/3 of the old Nueva Espana until after they discovered gold in California and no one in Mexico cared about that territory untli the USA built it up with roads, cities, towns, services, industry in the early 20th century. Guess
what, it’s the 21st century and Mexico is still weak, stupid and corrupt,
socially, economically and govermentally. Instead of wroking to build a
great society, instead of mexican society working as a team and building a
1st class country with the tons of human an natural resources we have, we covet jealously what we could have had, what the USA became and is, it because the Americans are smart and they have their checks and balances socially, politically and economically they built an empire out of 13
piece of dirt colonies, the Spaniards gave us an empire in term of land
and as a society we pissed it away, the problem is that mexican never look
at themselves as the problem, which we are, naturally we always look at
some one else to blame for our own failings.

We suck as a culture, we suck as a society, we suck as a country, were a
third rate wannabe leftist dictatorship aka a latina american democracy
that can never get it’s act straight. I had the good fortune of marrying
into an American family that embraced me regardless of my origins these
social and political conservatives are some of the most generous and hard
working people and some of the closest nit humans you will find, I am
lucky to have left Mexico, and I will never return to Mexico, I will die
for the USA and my sons will die for the USA because it has given me
everything.

What has Mexico ever given me? Nada.