Re: Francophile in the White House

The Telegraph (UK) letters page ^ | Feb. 13, 2004 | Edward Bryant

[TheMole]

Re: Francophile in the White House

Date: 13 February 2004

Sir - With the spotlight now firmly on John Kerry as the leading Democratic contender, the Americans will, finally, learn who he is. It will be interesting to know their reaction when they find out why he has the absolute support of their bête noire - the French.

The truth is that France strongly wants anyone but George W Bush as president so she can turn the page on her damaging relationship with the world's only hyperpower.

The French press is now gleefully revealing that Brice Lalonde, the former environment minister of the socialist president François Mitterrand, is a first cousin of J F Kerry (their mothers were sisters). M Lalonde is now recounting how close he is to his cousin, which dates back to their many happy vacations together in the family home in Brittany.

Not only does JFK speak fluent French but he is a dedicated ecologist and a strong supporter of the Kyoto protocol, which President Bush has not signed -believing it detrimental to the interests of the US economy. The French are cock-a-hoop at the idea of a strong Francophile at the White House who will thaw the current glacial relations.

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Edward Bryant, Paris

[Chris Talk]

This alone ought to end any chance of his being elected President.

[randog]

Well, this explains quite a bit.

[Cicero]

Why am I not surprised.

[DManA]

Really? Kerry supports Kyoto? Did he abstain when the Senate voted 96 to 0 to kick it into the trash bin?

[Mr. Mojo]

France, Al Qaeda, Germany, Hezbollah, (most) Democrats .......all on the same page. ......which isn't exactly an unusual occurrence these days.

[Bullish]

Of course, this will all be roundly ignored by the mainstream news media.

[Viking2002]

This alone ought to end any chance of his being elected President.

Agreed, but this alone will give a bloc of arrogant, subhuman leftists the best reason for voting for him.

[Dolphy]

The French are cock-a-hoop

Among other things.

[FoxInSocks]

When did the U.S. become the world's only hyperpower?

Hyperpower is a cool sounding word, though.

[YaYa123]

Why, this is better than nekkid bimbos seen climbing out Kerry's Georgetown house in the middle of the night.

[vpintheak]

No, he probably voted to dump it because it was the best political thing to do at the time. He is for it now because it is what he thinks is the best thing political at the moment. That is why he is a rat, he has no moral fiber.

[Chris Talk]

The onliest thang bettuh, woould be if them bimbos was French!

[TheMole]

French media types began referring to the U.S. as une hyperpuissance after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989-90. Before that it was just a superpuissance along with the USSR and China. BTW, a very large grocery store is une hypermarche, literally a "hypermarket".

[FairOpinion]

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1067759/posts

WSJ Best of the Web (KERRY IS FIRST COUSIN TO FORMER FRENCH ENVIRONMENT MINISTER BRICE LALONDE!)

[Billthedrill]

It isn't actually a case of Bush refusing to sign the Kyoto protocols at all, it's that the Senate rejected it without a single assenting vote. 95-0. IN 1997. SOURCE I'm trying to recall who was president at the time...nope, just can't remember...

[FairOpinion]

"John Kerry, notre oncle d’Amérique"

"John Kerry, our American uncle" -- say the French

Here is the somewhat ackward machine translation via Babelfish, but you get the idea.

Looks like the French AND Kerry, are deliberately trying to keep his relations and associations with the French out of the public eye.

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His/her maternal aunt is the mother of Brice Lalonde, former minister for the ecology of François Mitterrand, suddenly rejoined in Alain Madelin. And it is not not very proud of his cousin, Brice Lalonde : " I will celebrate his victory with the nomination, in July... but I do not want to harm to him because I am marked too much French and that that is not well seen in this moment in the United States.

Another horror, with the eyes of the republicans extremists, John Kerry likes to speak French. Large reader of Gide, it often punctuates his sentences of expressions in French. The NewsMax.com site reports scandalized that, during a dinner, the woman of Kerry said " it is not possible " and that her husband then murmured a French sentence to him. That proves at which point Kerry is a frightening adversary of the American values...

[Destro]

Not only does JFK speak fluent French...

This is an issue?

[DeFault User]

La plume de ma tante est sur le bureau de mon oncle.

Well, I guess that's better than:

Le fils de sa tante était sur un bureau du gouvernement français.

[graycamel]

Kerry's mother: Rosemary G ... Forbes, b. Paris 27 Oct. 1913, d. Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., 14 Nov. 2002

Kerry's maternal Grandparents: James Grant Forbes, international lawyer and banker, b. Shanghai, China, 22 Oct. 1879, d. Paris 24 Apr. 1955 m. 10 Walnut St., Boston, Mass., 28 Nov. 1906 and Margaret Tyndal Winthrop, b. ... , Mass., 23 Feb. 1880, d. St.-Briac-sur-Mer 7 July 1970

Source: William Addams Reitwiesner