French Struggle Now With How to Coexist With Bush [Hillarious!]

NY Times ^ | February 8, 2005 | ELAINE SCIOLINO

[Timeout]

This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time! Every paragraph is funny...make sure you read the last 4 paragraphs!

One serious observation: Note that Biden and Leahy were over there meeting (strategizing, more like it) with Chirac prior to the Condi/Bush visits. I seriously believe Biden (and maybe Leahy) has become a traitor to this country. I believe he's plotting with our enemies for Rat political gains (they think voters will be impressed that the world likes them better--Ha!)

Could Chirac be any more pompous, ego-inflated, offensive or infuriating? Well, perhaps if he were Monsieur de Villepin! LOL!

[pissant]

I think Condi is taking her leather whip to beat the french girlie men into submission.

[Rakkasan1]

WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[LauraleeBraswell]

Chirac has actually been quoted calling Saddam a close and personal friend.

[NorCalRepub]

another Champs Elysee' shuffle.......two years of good behavior and them maybe I might start believing your tripe

[TADSLOS]

The french poodle still yapping away and whining for a spot on the porch with the big dog.

[LauraleeBraswell]

Also- in France some corrupt politians have proposed making Chirac a Senator for life. In France Senators are exempt from trials. There has been some outcry, some want Chirac brought to trial

[LauraleeBraswell]

Forgive Russia. Ignore Germany. Punish France.

I love it, it's mine.

[vpintheak]

But Mr. Chirac made it clear, they said, that sanctions never worked and that he was opposed to them.

Where did that come from? It was nothing but "sanctions were working" before. We must have really scared the socks off that freak.

[Unam Sanctam]

But Mr. Chirac made it clear, they said, that sanctions never worked and that he was opposed to them. He also suggested that Iran's Islamic Republic could not be trusted.

Let's see, we're dealing with crazy infidel-hating Mullahs, who haven't yet joined the EU post-historical multilateral way of doing things, and we want to solve things diplomatically, and if that fails, we're ruling out either sanctions or force in the last resort -- sounds like a real winner of a strategy to me!

[snowman1]

Chirac stated that sanctions didn't work in Iraq. Hell no not when the FROGS were selling Saddam everything he wanted behind everyones back and taking a big cut out of the FFO program. If I was Bush or Condi when you shake his hand make sure you count your fingers after.

[bahblahbah]

Biden's no traitor. You should have heard him at the world economic forum. He was a better representative than McLame.

[Socratic]

"...he (Chirac) said he would love to have some private time with Mr. Bush, without any aides present..."

Mr. Bush is smart enough and possesses enough integrity to keep any "Lewinski" incidents from marring HIS Presidency.

[kittymyrib]

Well, wouldn't you call someone a close personal friend who sent checks to your favorite bank and to all your friends? If Sec. Rice and the President ever trust this den of vipers, they deserve to be bitten.

[Arpege92]

Mr. Barnier wants to visit the United States every three months? Sounds like a welcome wagon should be there to greet the back stabbing frog.

"They hold fast to a belief that Mr. Bush and his team still have alot to learn from France about running the world."

Very telling statement. Bush is not looking to run the world....but France is.

[Billthedrill]

...they hold fast to a belief that Mr. Bush and his team still have a lot to learn from France about running the world.

I will confess it is a complete and total mystery to me where this belief comes from. That isn't to sneer. I simply cannot fathom this blind, utter faith in some mystic French diplomatic revelation that is seemingly so absent a shred of real-world evidence.

What we got from the multipolar Great Powers geopolitical alignment was colonial exploitation, arms races, brinksmanship, World War One, and the fall of its major participants in the forms of the Romanov dynasty, the Hohenzollern dynasty, the Habsburg Empire, and the Ottoman Empire. I am a bit at a loss as to why this is considered preferable to the current unipolar configuration. Are we not killing enough people? Is that the problem?

[MEG33]

o·le·ag·i·nous ( P ) Pronunciation Key (l-j-ns)
adj.
Of or relating to oil.
Falsely or smugly earnest; unctuous: oleaginous flattery. See Synonyms at unctuous.

Describes Monsieur de Villepin .

Sabotoging our diplomatic efforts seems to be the dems strong suit.

Chirac is so...French.

[doug from upland]

"The situation has changed," Mr. Barnier said in a recent interview over lunch at the Foreign Ministry, adding that Ms. Rice's instruction to punish France has been forgiven.
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Well, isn't that special, Frenchy. We haven't forgiven you. Get out the cheese and put up the white flag.

[Cicero]

Absolutely killing. Can Elaine Sciolino actually be writing so many funny one-liners by accident?

a handwritten "Cher George" letter

Mr. Chirac is helped in his reality offensive by Mr. Barnier.

"I want to get to know Condi Rice, to establish a personal relationship with her," said Mr. Barnier

But even as Mr. Chirac and his ministers adjust to the reality of a second Bush term, they hold fast to a belief that Mr. Bush and his team still have a lot to learn from France about running the world.

You can't make this stuff up.

[okie01]

One serious observation: Note that Biden and Leahy were over there meeting (strategizing, more like it) with Chirac prior to the Condi/Bush visits.

Would "Bad Rug" or "Leaky" sell out the country for partisan political gain?

Not unless there was a little something in it for them, too...