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Now Obama has insulted French President Sarkozy!
http://europumas.over-blog.com/article-29271371.html ^

Posted on 03/22/2009 4:56:54 PM PDT by DaveinOK54

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To: combat_boots

“The British.

The French.

Shame on you, Mr. Obama.”

Obama is merely following the standard Democrat foreign policy of trashing our friends, and rewarding our enemies.


361 posted on 03/23/2009 7:07:00 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The biggest crimes in history were committed by governments. You've been warned.)
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To: True Republican Patriot

Read my post again. I’m pointing out the media’s double standard.


362 posted on 03/23/2009 7:34:20 AM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: MtnMan101

363 posted on 03/23/2009 7:38:49 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: RetiredArmy
Gee, what is a dictator to do. Fly to Cuba for a meeting with Castro, Jimmy Carter and Juan Chavez of Venezuela????

Castro, Carter yes but not Chavez who called him an ignoramous according to Reuters

364 posted on 03/23/2009 7:55:04 AM PDT by StarFan
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Have the French realized how much they all miss G. W. Bush yet?


365 posted on 03/23/2009 8:05:38 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
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To: TommyDale
Does anyone remember how the enemedia skewered George Bush in 2000 for failing the pop quiz on who the leaders was of some turd world country? Was it Pakistan?

Now hear this: Oba Mao had time to look it up and couldn't even get the president right of such an important country as France!

366 posted on 03/23/2009 8:06:16 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Unlikely Hero

Le Figaro is one of the largest, if not the largest news paper in France


367 posted on 03/23/2009 8:12:00 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for Obama: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
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To: DaveinOK54

This is dumber than ANYTHING that Bush ever did. I bet 100 bucks that this will not be on the Today Show.


368 posted on 03/23/2009 8:21:05 AM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: justsaynomore
America is also a continent... just sayin

Actually the continent is North America, which included the USA, Canada and Mexico

369 posted on 03/23/2009 8:31:10 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for Obama: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
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To: TeleStraightShooter

I was watching 60 Minutes and was waiting for Steve Kroft to ask the 0 how many terrorist attacks have we had since 9/11. Not surprisingly, he didn’t ask


370 posted on 03/23/2009 8:41:34 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for Obama: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
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To: True Republican Patriot

We know 0bama is not as smart as he likes everyone to believe he is, because we see through him. He can not fool us, unlike the lame stream media and the left.


371 posted on 03/23/2009 8:53:44 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for Obama: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
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To: DaveinOK54
Imagine what the outrage would be like if Germany's Angela Merkle sent a letter like this to George Bush, going around Obama.

What would the MSM say about that?

-PJ

372 posted on 03/23/2009 8:56:42 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (You can never overestimate the Democrats' ability to overplay their hand.)
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To: DaveinOK54; SumProVita; HardStarboard; BradyLS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dervish; Twotone; ...

The list, ping


373 posted on 03/23/2009 9:00:16 AM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: SumProVita; HardStarboard; BradyLS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dervish; Twotone; Free ThinkerNY; ...

Thanks to Freeper AlmaKing for the headsup.


374 posted on 03/23/2009 9:02:01 AM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: EBH

Sarah Palin never said that she could see Russia from Wassila. That was Tina Faye who said that. What Sarah Palin said was that you can see part of Russia from Alaska.


375 posted on 03/23/2009 9:02:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for Obama: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
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To: Texan Tory
I think you are correct. I don't know how to get my computer to translate but this is it:

Barack Obama a écrit à Jacques Chirac

Le président américain vient d’adresser une lettre «très sympathique » à Jacques Chirac, selon l’expression de ce dernier. «Je suis certain que nous pourrons au cours des quatre années à venir collaborer ensemble dans un esprit de paix et d’amitié afin de construire un monde plus sûr» , écrit le successeur de George W. Bush au prédécesseur de Nicolas Sarkozy. En évoquant le mot de « paix», Obama rend un hommage implicite à l’action de l’ancien président français qui s’était opposé à la guerre en Irak. Une intervention américaine contre laquelle le futur président américain s’était opposé comme sénateur, lors du vote au Congrès.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualites/2009/03/19/01001-20090319ARTFIG00357-confidentiel-barack-obama-a-ecrit-a-jacques-chirac-.php

376 posted on 03/23/2009 9:08:47 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: DaveinOK54

It’s obvious who is behind the many diplomatic gaffes of the new administration: Bill Clinton.


377 posted on 03/23/2009 9:10:08 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: Texan Tory
No, you are correct. The issue is not whether or not Barack Obama erroneously believes that Jacques Chirac is the President of France. Barack Obama & his staff are not brain-dead, they know full well that Sarkozy is the President of France.

The issue is that Barack Obama has been snubbing the (relatively) conservative & pro-American Sarkozy since his election, but has nonetheless somehow found the time to lavishly laud Sarkozy's predecessor Chirac & convey his hopes 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. "

In other words, since his election, Barack Obama has been pointedly loathe to give Sarkozy the time of day, but somehow has carved out of his schedule the time to extend this hearts-and-flowers courtesy to the out-of-power Saddam-loving President who was such a thorn in the side of the United States. Sarkozy, the very man who does America a huge favor at great political risk to himself by putting France back up for full-membership with NATO and thereby lessening America's obligations to that organization, is inexplicably given a diplomatic slap in the face by this administration.

That's why people who follow French politics are clucking: Not because they think Obama doesn't know who the French President is (clearly he does), but because this seems to have been a calculated slight to Sarkozy. It's as if the next PM of Great Britain were, after his election, to ostentatiously ignore Obama & then write an effusive note to George W. Bush expressing his fondest hopes that they can work well together for the duration of his term.

Diplomatically, it's just bizarrely gratuitous insult. And Obama knew full well he was writing to the former President. Indeed, Obama's full awareness of that fact was required for him to properly convey this contrived insult to Sarkozy.

379 posted on 03/23/2009 9:24:30 AM PDT by leilani
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To: SonOfPyrodex

True Story: I took the word of my Instructor as truth..now, I don’t know...

My spanish instructor from college lived in mexico for a period of time to help herself become more fluent in the language, and educated about the culture. She told us that if we visit mexico and someone asks where we are from, (this was over 10 yrs ago mind you) to say North America..not America. She said they consider themselves south americans. I had never thought about it before.


380 posted on 03/23/2009 9:33:21 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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