Chirac's strong stance against invading Iraq is an example of something Obama knows deeply (as does any Chicago politician): political corruption.
 Chirac marketing Froggish reactor technology to Saddam in 1975 |
Posted on 03/23/2009 10:38:14 PM PDT by Schnucki
It's long been the case that the easiest way for an American and a Brit - whatever their respective political persusasions - to bond is to chuckle over something rude about the French.
Jokes about garlic, frogs' legs, surrender, duplicity, take your pick - it's safe ground. If Barack Obama had gone on Leno and made a barbed quip about our Gallic friends instead of the Special Olympics he'd have been home free.
So perhaps the new president is being devilishly clever by, as Le Figaro reports, writing to Jacques Chirac, former French president, that: "I am certain that we will be able to work together, in the coming four years, in a spirit of peace and friendship to build a safer world."
These kind of seem like the kind of words most suitable for a sitting head of state, not a former one. The use of the word "peace" is apparently being interpreted by the French newspaper as a tacit recognition of Chirac's strong stance against the Iraq invasion.
Some have interpreted the move as a one-fingered gesture to Nicolas Sarkozy, the current president of France. "So, if I understand well, Mister O., who has already despised Gordon Brown, behaving with him as if he did not know he is Prime Minister of Britain, does not even know the name of the French president," blogs Europumas.
"I wonder if someone had told him, when he came to France last summer, that the man he met was NOT Jacques Chirac!"
What better way to make up with Gordon Brown after the DVDs fiasco than to insult France's president?
Or perhaps it could have been payback for Sarkozy's supposed opinion that Obama's stance on Iran was "utterly immature".
But wait. The now online-only Christian Science Monitor reports that Obama was simply
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The Palooka-in-Chief doesn't know WHERE France is, let alone who's head of it...
Dunce.
And they said Bush was dumb...
Imagine if Bush had done this what a field day the so called MSM would have had.
Today, barely a peep about this.
To be fair, Obama was writing in response to a letter Chirac sent to Obama, in Chirac’s capacity as head of the “Jacques Chirac Foundation for sustainable development and cultural dialogue.”
Is this a snub of Sarkozy? Sure. A diplomatic faux pas? Of course. But, let’s not take it too far - it’s not an indication that Obama doesn’t know who is currently the President of France.
“Does Barack Obama know who the President of France is?”
Of course he does, just like he knows there are 57 states in our country.
Toby makes this point at the bottom of his article. Honest. :)
> But, let’s not take it too far - it’s not an indication that Obama doesn’t know who is currently the President of France.
This genius actually stated that the U.S. has 57 states, stated that Iowa is Ottawa, Canada and gave PM Brown 25 DVD’S that is regionally unworkable in England...
Don’t worry he knows about holidays in Iran and everything else about the Islamic world.
When did he say that about Iowa?
No problem Schnucki.
I just wanted to add the translation I got from Google to your thread.
Google: Obama iowa canada, and let the laughs roll. I’m surprised you missed this one, IIA.
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Obama, thinking he is POTUS, obviously spoke without consulting TOTUS. Thus the International fiasco.
Giving the middle finger salute to Sarko is definitely not a good idea.
Sad for America to think that now that GWB is gone, Sarko and Bibi Netanyahu are the leaders of the Free world.
“Some have interpreted the move as a one-fingered gesture to Nicolas Sarkozy, the current president of France. “So, if I understand well, Mister O., who has already despised Gordon Brown, behaving with him as if he did not know he is Prime Minister of Britain, does not even know the name of the French president,” blogs Europumas.
“I wonder if someone had told him, when he came to France last summer, that the man he met was NOT Jacques Chirac!””
Chirac's strong stance against invading Iraq is an example of something Obama knows deeply (as does any Chicago politician): political corruption.
Chirac marketing Froggish reactor technology to Saddam in 1975 |
Harder question would be does he know who the President of the United States is?
OMG...I just barfed in the loo...doesn’t matter who sent what; for the 0 to send this missive to a presumed leader of France...well, ok, if it was an ACTUAL leader, but 2 years gone? Crap damn, this community organizer they elected is a major a$$#0le....
Maybe geography wasn’t taught in the Indonesian primary school that educated him.
gigglepuss is simply an idiot.
nice job, moron. let’s see how you’ve done in 7 weeks...
you’ve succeed in pissing off or offending:
o the brits
o the french
o canada
o north korea
o russia
o israel
you have made happy:
o palestinians
o hamas
nice work... you’re sooo supa smaht... it just gives me chills /sarc
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