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.
They're totally irrational.