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2004-10-13 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2004-10-13 5:50:45 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Friends", he says.

As if.

Posted by mojo 2004-10-13 6:22:08 PM|| 2004-10-13 6:22:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 FRANCEâS Ambassador to the United States Jean-David Levitte has condemned what he called the France-bashing rhetoric of the US presidential campaign.

Cry me a $#@&! river.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-13 6:30:10 PM|| 2004-10-13 6:30:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess showing the proof that they were on the take is "French Bashing". If so, I hope to see a lot more of it.

Oh, and die you froggie bastard.

Posted by mmurray821 2004-10-13 6:34:51 PM|| 2004-10-13 6:34:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Tell how the oil vouchers are not a direct bribe to France and it's opposition to doing what is right. Dead babies have never bothered the French much if they are not French. Thats why France didn't condem Saddams baby killing and genocide. Keep the bribes coming and we will carry your water.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-13 6:37:26 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-10-13 6:37:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Allez-y, con. You and your government owe a huge apology to President Allawi and the people of Iraq. Instead of whining about Fox News, I suggest you pay a visit to Iraq and face the victims of your thievery.

Posted by lex 2004-10-13 6:40:46 PM|| 2004-10-13 6:40:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 E-mail Levitte here and let him know if you think we're friends.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-13 6:44:03 PM|| 2004-10-13 6:44:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Phuque Phrawnse

Posted by A Jackson 2004-10-13 6:45:52 PM|| 2004-10-13 6:45:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 My sentiments exactly, A Jackson.

STFU and FOAD, "Ambassador."

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-13 7:09:23 PM|| 2004-10-13 7:09:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Send him an email, Barbara. See link in post # 6 above, from Mrs D.

Posted by lex 2004-10-13 7:19:30 PM|| 2004-10-13 7:19:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm halfway through "Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France", by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky. It's a great read.

I've nothing against the French people; but their government can bite my shorts.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-13 7:36:04 PM|| 2004-10-13 7:36:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 But be polite no F#$% Phrawnce.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-13 7:40:11 PM|| 2004-10-13 7:40:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 By his cultural values, everything France did is just fine. Its only us naive Americans who don't understand and accept how the world works.

/channeling Chiraq

Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-13 8:31:32 PM|| 2004-10-13 8:31:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The only anger I have over France-bashing is that there hasn't been nearly enough of it yet.

That's OK, though. France showed itself clearly, and most Americans know exactly what they are about. France WANTS Iraq to fail, because it would be bad for the US, and they continue to actively strive for that failure.

The myth of France as an ally has been permanently extinguished.

Posted by docob 2004-10-13 9:21:43 PM|| 2004-10-13 9:21:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I've nothing against the French people;
Dave,
Why wouldn't you have anything against the French people? They are the ones who elect their leaders and polls have consistently shown the French people wish ill upon Americans. If you mean there are some fine French individuals, then I can agree with you. But that doesn't negate what the French people, as a whole, think.

Posted by ed 2004-10-13 9:29:28 PM|| 2004-10-13 9:29:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 French society is much more elitist than ours. Only those selected at age 16 via national tests have any real shot at the brass ring in politics and business. The real problem is a corrupt and self-referential political class that plays out its ridiculously machiavellian political strategems to the great detriment of the Atlantic Alliance, Europe, and France's own citizens. The deal for the French people is simple: they (the elites) preserve our benefits and our corporatist privileges (right to strike above all), we allow them free reign in the political sphere.

Helas, there's little hope that this corrupt bargain will change anytime soon.

Posted by lex 2004-10-13 10:27:24 PM|| 2004-10-13 10:27:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 "Dave, Why wouldn't you have anything against the French people?"

That's a good question, ed. Perhaps it has to do with lex's comment about the elitist nature of French society: what little I know of the people and their attitudes toward us, I'm willing to attribute at least partly to their being misled by the ruling classes.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-13 10:49:45 PM|| 2004-10-13 10:49:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Damn, they're complaining that we are hurting their feelings? When I read the headline I thought we were finally cracking some skulls. Oh well, maybe next year.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-10-13 11:01:51 PM|| 2004-10-13 11:01:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Imagine an America in which all political candidates and all CEOs (with next to no startups or new companies ever being formed) are derived from a pool defined as National Merit Scholars who participated in their high schools' Model United Nations forum, and you get a flavor for how ridiculously inbred, arrogant and corrupt the French elites are.

Posted by lex 2004-10-14 1:29:48 AM|| 2004-10-14 1:29:48 AM|| Front Page Top

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