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Posted on 10/26/2004 11:55:36 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
PARIS One would think it was their leader being elected - and many Europeans believe it is, in a way. In a tremendous show of interest unseen in previous U.S. presidential campaigns, Europeans on both sides of the Channel have been riveted by the coming American vote, obsessing about the future of the United States as if it were their own.
.....Judging from opinion polls, media reports and conversation on this side of the Atlantic, the overwhelming sentiment on what would be bad for Europe is another four years with President George W. Bush. In Britain, France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, Europeans appear to be united by an overwhelming antipathy toward Bush.
"He has the ability to provoke incredible animosity," said Alain Frachon, a senior editor at Le Monde, one of several French newspapers running extensive coverage of the American campaign. ....
..."There's just something about the president that grates on the foreign viewer - it just doesn't play well here. I cannot remember an issue that has ever aroused such intense interest."
European media are sending correspondents all over the United States in an effort to delve into the American psyche.
"We want to understand why so many people are still on Bush's side; it's a kind of mystery to us," said Peter Frey, Berlin bureau chief for ZDF television in Germany. "We are asking the American people, 'Why are you voting for Bush?' We want to understand why he has this support."....
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Jeez, someone toss some cold water on this guy.
Notice how the Euroweenies always fantasize about getting together with representatives from powerful countries and sittin' around TALKIN. They hate Bush because he takes words seriously--if the ceasefire agreement 12 years before said "Do this or you get stomped," W thinks that means "Do this or get stomped."
The French think it's just SOOOOOOOO much more civilized to dress up in fine tailoring and chat while millions suffer and hundreds of thousands die. They're entry-level diplomats, every one of them, sitting around pretending they have power because those with real power actually stop and chat with them.
Every time they see Clinton or Kerry they know they meant it when they say "Oh, we must consult with our great allies the French" or "Thank you for deigning to talk with us, Europe, you make us Americans feel cultured"--Bush:"I don't care what you think."
And when they see Bush they know his response will always be "I don't care what you think."
Great picture comparison.
Truth be told, I think they made Kerry impotent at the same time they cut out the cancer in his prostate.
Yew sound just like I's do, Zarf. 'Cept I also think of how I kin git the local eleMENtry school how to teach flat-Earth theory, too. Hyuk, hyuk.
ST.-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France
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"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" setting ?
It's very sample: The U.S. for Pres. Bush TRUST him and believes in him like the old saying 'he says what he means and means what he says'. End of psyche; end of mystery.
#5..Nuff said!
Just to annoy the Eurotrash.
Scrag off, Euro-trash.
Oh, and hooray for Poland.
Yes. Western Europeans of predominant European thought should realize that they are not living in any "American Empire." The "empire" thing is a myth. And after they understand that fact, they should begin to be very afraid. They're on their own with their selfish, weak leaders and are being manipulated by the hostile bullies of the world.
EURABIA Anti-American,anti-semitic Europe explained http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1223220/posts
We're not flakes and we punch back. Simple if you ask me.
These are supposed to be the intelligent Europeans?
Feelings, nothing more than feelings,...
They don't care about reasons, deeds or results, they just want to some American leader to pretend they matter. Even if he doesn't believe it himself.
"The fact that Kerry has an attitude in which he feels he wants to consult the allies and is less arrogant in his relationship with allies, puts him in a much more positive light here," said Nathalie La Balme, program officer at the Paris office of the German Marshall Fund. "I don't know whether if Kerry gets elected anything will change. But in terms of attitude and perception and words, it would make a big difference."
Feeeeeeeeeeeelings, nothing more than feeeeeeelings...
They're like friggin teenagers.
"He has the ability to provoke incredible animosity," said Alain Frachon, a senior editor at Le Monde, one of several French newspapers running extensive coverage of the American campaign.
So do the French.
"If Bush remains, American troops may stay longer in Iraq and this will immediately impact our internal politics," said Jean-Gabriel Fredet, an editor at Le Nouvel Observateur, a French weekly that recently carried on its cover, "Why We Must Beat Bush."
Maybe Fredet, you should be more concerned about why our presence in Iraq- or anyone else's - would affect the internal politics of France.
"The hope of a peaceful settlement between Israelis and Palestinians is also very important to us, but Bush does not seem too involved in that."
Don't kid us- you don't give a rats' patoot about Middle East peace.
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In spite of the headline the whole article is about the European psyche. Maybe if they shut up about their feelings once in a while they can begin understanding our nation's psyche...
Well thats it! How could I be so insensitive to our european best buddies. I had no idea. Its Kerry the traitor for me now.
Man, them ribs look goood!
Foreign policy to Europeans means going to endless meetings and finally signing a piece of paper that solves nothing. It saves them from having to do anything while saying they have.
They're totally irrational.
Me thinks if certain European countries had stronger leadership...they wouldn't be so worried about our leadership....
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