The champ is here
I'm not sure whose idea it was to set up a website idolizing East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, but they sure are tugging at the old heart strings with this stuff:
Tenderhearted and sympathetic to an unusual degree, Xanana Gusmao has an understanding of other people's feelings and needs which borders on telepathy. Xanana Gusmao is extremely compassionate and cannot bear to see any fellow creature – human or animal – suffer. Because of his kindness and nonjudgmental attitude, people suffering from pain or confusion are drawn to Gusmao for help, which he readily gives. Sometimes Gusmao's soft-heartedness is taken advantage of.
He is a gentle, poetic soul and has a great love and affinity for music. Because many of his feelings are vague and he cannot easily verbalize how he experiences life, music seems a natural language for Gusmao. He is also extremely romantic and often "in love with love".
Perhaps this is a move by the government to give Xanana's image abroad a bit of a makeover after the prime minister last week laid into ABC reporter Stephanie March and the entire population of Australia. He didn't seem too "tenderhearted and sympathetic" then.
