Personal Life
On December 18, 2007, Machimura said at an official press conference that he believes in the existence of UFOs. The Shukan Bunshun weekly quoted him as saying, “No matter what it looks like, the United States is a very conservative country.”
“Obama is black and Hillary is a woman. I guess it would be difficult for them to win,”the government’s chief spokesman, was quoted as saying in a gathering with reporters in February, 2008. “It will likely be McCain who will win the race in the end.”
However, his rebuttal to the magazine states that his best friend was African-American when he studied at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, he was quoted as saying “It’s not in my mindset to discriminate against black people or women, “In fact, Secretary of State (Condoleezza) Rice was the person I trusted the most when I was foreign minister.”
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