Thrilled.

Population of France ~ 64 million
Me - one person

Number of votes in the election
Me - one
France's 64 million - zero

+1

We're from France. Must consume mass quantities of Kool-aid!

Ugh, a hate threads about the French. Oui oui and all.

/pee pee?

Anybody catch the first question that was asked? It was from Christiane Amanpour from CNN. Man, she asked a doozy of a question to the French President.

Obama was right though, Europeans have a caricature view of the US, and Americans have a similar caricature view of Europeans, especially the French. I was half expecting him to apologize for the 'Freedom Fries' debacle.

danlpoon: We're from France. Must consume mass quantities of Kool-aid!



Oh yeaaaaah!

Speaker2Animals

Population of France ~ 64 million
Me - one person

Number of votes in the election
Me - one
France's 64 million - zero


Thank you for letting me be able to use my first THIS.

3_Butt_Cheeks: Ugh, a hate threads about the French. Oui oui and all.

/pee pee?

I'm of French descent & find it amusing, considering my ancestors saved the Founding Fathers' asses a couple hundred years ago.

People biatch about the French not appreciating Americans for liberating them in WWII. What the US did was just repaying the favor.

I thought we didn't care what the French think.

WizardofToast: Speaker2Animals

Population of France ~ 64 million
Me - one person

Number of votes in the election
Me - one
France's 64 million - zero


Thank you for letting me be able to use my first THIS.

Really? There are no Americans living in France eligible to vote? Not even one?

Speaker2Animals: Population of France ~ 64 million
Me - one person

Number of votes in the election
Me - one
France's 64 million - zero

There is a significant number American expatriates living in France. Their votes count.

rufus-t-firefly: 3_Butt_Cheeks: Ugh, a hate threads about the French. Oui oui and all.

/pee pee?

I'm of French descent & find it amusing, considering my ancestors saved the Founding Fathers' asses a couple hundred years ago.

People biatch about the French not appreciating Americans for liberating them in WWII. What the US did was just repaying the favor.

A bit defensive aren't we. Read the post clearer. I hate THREADS ABOUT THE FRENCH. It did not say, I HATE FRENCH PEOPLE.

Relax, have some whine...I mean wine.

Ah yes, an opportunity for people to badmouth France. Freedom fries, surrender monkeys, frogs, oui, oui...

Seriously folks, if you think the opinions of the people in France/Germany/Uk/etc. don't matter then you should support a neo-isolationism. We simply CANNOT succeed in Iraq/Afghanistan/etc. without international support. And it is much easier for leaders of these nations to support us when their political base is behind helping us. Hearts and minds, people. It's not good enough to win them just in places we invade.

Speaker2Animals: Population of France ~ 64 million
Me - one person

Number of votes in the election
Me - one
France's 64 million - zero

Number of presidential candidates demonstrating their ability to lead by taking time out of their campaign to repair America's international credibility - one

Wait, I thought we liked the French again since they elected a new president?

This is going to confuse the Limbots to no end.

Sphaux:
Number of presidential candidates demonstrating their ability to lead by taking time out of their campaign to repair America's international credibility - one

Oh, and THIS.

When I look out into your eyes out there, When I look out into your faces, You know what I see?
I see a little bit of Obama, In each and every one of you out there.
Obama is everywhere, man!He's in everything. He's in everybody...
Obama is in your jeans. He's in your cheesburgers. Obama is in Nutty Buddies! Obama is in your mom!
He's in everybody. He's in the young, the old, the fat, the skinny, the white, the black the brown and the blue
people got Obama in 'em too
Who built the pyramids? Obama! Who built Stonehenge? Obama!
Yeah, man you see guys walking down the street pushing shopping carts and you think they're talking to allah,
they're talking to themself. Man, no they're talking to Obama! Obama! Obama!
Yeah man, you know people from outer space, people from outer space they come up to me.
They don't look like like Doctor Spock. They don't look like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive.
They look like Obama. Obama!
Everybody in outer space looks like Obama. Cause Obama is a perfect being.
We are all moving in perfect peace and harmony towards Obamaness
Soon all will become Obama. Everything everywhere will be Obama.
Why do you think they call it evolution anyway? It's really Obamalution! Obamalution!
Talk to it!
Call it up!
Say "Obama, heal me!"
"Save me, Obama!"
"Make me be born again
in the perfect Obama light"

doyner: Sphaux:
Number of presidential candidates demonstrating their ability to lead by taking time out of their campaign to repair America's international credibility - one

Oh, and THIS.

If you think his trip was not campaigning, you are fooling yourself.

JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: I was looking for the cheese eating surrender monkey pic, but I founnd this to be funnier.

In 1779, 6,000 French had already faced 3,000 British in the Battle of Savannah, but the French attack was too precipitated and badly prepared, which led to its eventual failure. The Battle of the Chesapeake (1781) caused a part of the British fleet to flee, destroyed the remainder, and encircled Cornwallis in Yorktown, where he hopelessly awaited the promised British reinforcements. Cornwallis was trapped between American and French forces on land and the French fleet on the sea. The French alliance was crucial in the decisive victory of the Patriots at Yorktown (October 17, 1781), which could not have been achieved if not for the French Navy under Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse. After useless counters, Cornwallis formally surrendered on (October 19, 1781). The major fighting was now over and only some skirmishes were left. Britain, however, would not formally end the war until 1783.


Good thing they didn't surrender in the 1700s, or the United States would have been a footnote in history. The Founding Fathers wouldn't even be called 'surrender monkeys' - rather, 'traitors dangling at the end of a hemp rope.'

Being liked by our allies is a huge black eye for any presidential candidate. We want other countries to only be willing to work with us under the threat of force.

rufus-t-firefly: JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: I was looking for the cheese eating surrender monkey pic, but I founnd this to be funnier.

In 1779, 6,000 French had already faced 3,000 British in the Battle of Savannah, but the French attack was too precipitated and badly prepared, which led to its eventual failure. The Battle of the Chesapeake (1781) caused a part of the British fleet to flee, destroyed the remainder, and encircled Cornwallis in Yorktown, where he hopelessly awaited the promised British reinforcements. Cornwallis was trapped between American and French forces on land and the French fleet on the sea. The French alliance was crucial in the decisive victory of the Patriots at Yorktown (October 17, 1781), which could not have been achieved if not for the French Navy under Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse. After useless counters, Cornwallis formally surrendered on (October 19, 1781). The major fighting was now over and only some skirmishes were left. Britain, however, would not formally end the war until 1783.


Good thing they didn't surrender in the 1700s, or the United States would have been a footnote in history. The Founding Fathers wouldn't even be called 'surrender monkeys' - rather, 'traitors dangling at the end of a hemp rope.'

Yeah, it always makes me laugh when people make fun of the French. WW2 wasn't us saving the French's ass, it was us paying back what we owed. Without French military support, America would have lost the Revolutionary War.

3_Butt_Cheeks: doyner: Sphaux:
Number of presidential candidates demonstrating their ability to lead by taking time out of their campaign to repair America's international credibility - one

Oh, and THIS.

If you think his trip was not campaigning, you are fooling yourself.

that's irrelevant

3_Butt_Cheeks:If you think his trip was not campaigning, you are fooling yourself.

He was goaded into going for months, and now that he has, he's campaigning? LOL you guys are hilarious. Of course he's campaigning, McCain did the same thing once he won the nomination. You guys are just buttsore because you guys elected McCain as your nominee.

Some of us like to make shallow 'the french suck' jokes, laugh at them, and move on, without actually hating the French or making a huge issue of it. Stereotypes are funny, headline is funny, everyone quit whining.

Arrogant and smug just like them.

moralpanic: 3_Butt_Cheeks:If you think his trip was not campaigning, you are fooling yourself.

He was goaded into going for months, and now that he has, he's campaigning? LOL you guys are hilarious. Of course he's campaigning, McCain did the same thing once he won the nomination. You guys are just buttsore because you guys elected McCain as your nominee.

Easy there buddy, I just pointed that out. I didn't bash him for it so relax. Buttsore? Clever.

It seems there are quite a few people in here having a difficult time reading.

rufus-t-firefly: 3_Butt_Cheeks: Ugh, a hate threads about the French. Oui oui and all.

/pee pee?

I'm of French descent & find it amusing, considering my ancestors saved the Founding Fathers' asses a couple hundred years ago.

People biatch about the French not appreciating Americans for liberating them in WWII. What the US did was just repaying the favor.

The French who saved the Founding Fathers' asses, as you put it, where aristocrats who were sent to the guillotine a few years later. Or, as a French friend of mind quipped, "Yes, the French helped your revolution, and then we killed them."

Can you guys please start posting pictures of that hot French news chick?

3_Butt_Cheeks: If you think his trip was not campaigning, you are fooling yourself.

Strawman much? Besides, the two are not mutually exclusive. Everything is a friggin' campaign these days.

Exodus2001: Can you guys please start posting pictures of that hot French news chick?

This, too...

moralpanic: Americans have a similar caricature view of Europeans

No, we simply don't bother to notice their existence until absolutely necessary, whereupon we get our views of them from our informative and nuanced media.

/or we vaguely remember something from the country section at EPCOT
//which is probably worse

As I posted in a previous thread about this:

Anyone who would be as stupid as to say "Oh, the Frenchies like Obama? I'm not voting for him!", were never going to vote for Obama anyway.

ps. did someone say French?

rufus-t-firefly: Good thing they didn't surrender in the 1700s, or the United States would have been a footnote in history. The Founding Fathers wouldn't even be called 'surrender monkeys' - rather, 'traitors dangling at the end of a hemp rope.'

Wasn't the intent of the British to grant amnesty to the the leaders of the rebellion in an attempt to not sour relations any further after they won?

/not arguing your point, just curious

oh noes - how many electoral votes do they get again?

rufus-t-firefly: 3_Butt_Cheeks: Ugh, a hate threads about the French. Oui oui and all.

/pee pee?

I'm of French descent & find it amusing, considering my ancestors saved the Founding Fathers' asses a couple hundred years ago.

People biatch about the French not appreciating Americans for liberating them in WWII. What the US did was just repaying the favor.

No, we did that in WWI, France still owes us big time.

Tor_Eckman: WizardofToast: Speaker2Animals

Population of France ~ 64 million
Me - one person

Number of votes in the election
Me - one
France's 64 million - zero


Thank you for letting me be able to use my first THIS.

Really? There are no Americans living in France eligible to vote? Not even one?

This was such a waste of fuel and resources. I hope Al Gore has a talk with him. Oh yeah. He turns the other way when rich people are not very green.

Exodus2001: Can you guys please start posting pictures of that hot French news chick?

RemyDuron: Yeah, it always makes me laugh when people make fun of the French. WW2 wasn't us saving the French's ass, it was us paying back what we owed. Without French military support, America would have lost the Revolutionary War.

American popular memory doesn't stretch more than a century or so.

Unless you're name is General Sherman.

Then you single handedly burned down every house, barn and white woman in the south, ragardless of what historians say.

slobarnuts: RemyDuron: Yeah, it always makes me laugh when people make fun of the French. WW2 wasn't us saving the French's ass, it was us paying back what we owed. Without French military support, America would have lost the Revolutionary War.

American popular memory doesn't stretch more than a century or so.

Unless you're name is General Sherman.

Then you single handedly burned down every house, barn and white woman in the south, ragardless of what historians say.

Well, it wasn't for a lack of trying on Sherman's part. You should read up on his shenanigans in South Carolina. Poor South Carolina always ends up with the psychos running through the state: Sherman, Tarleton, Spurrier.

doyner: 3_Butt_Cheeks: If you think his trip was not campaigning, you are fooling yourself.

Strawman much? Besides, the two are not mutually exclusive. Everything is a friggin' campaign these days.

Geee, so you agree.

When we invaded Afghanistan, the French wanted to help out more than we let them. They came to our side when we needed them and then we pissed all over them when they were smart enough not to invade Iraq with us. We gave them a few tasks but they wanted more to do in Afghanistan, just remember that boys and girls.

3_Butt_Cheeks: moralpanic: 3_Butt_Cheeks:If you think his trip was not campaigning, you are fooling yourself.

He was goaded into going for months, and now that he has, he's campaigning? LOL you guys are hilarious. Of course he's campaigning, McCain did the same thing once he won the nomination. You guys are just buttsore because you guys elected McCain as your nominee.

Easy there buddy, I just pointed that out. I didn't bash him for it so relax. Buttsore? Clever.

It seems there are quite a few people in here having a difficult time reading.

Weird how everybody seems to be 'misreading' what you're saying. In any case, can you point out where doyner said that Obama WASN'T campaigning?

Nabb1: Poor South Carolina always ends up with the psychos running through the state: Sherman, Tarleton, Spurrier.

Ha! I LOL'd!

Nabb1: Well, it wasn't for a lack of trying on Sherman's part.

"War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."

/likes me some Sherman
//and Nathan Bedford Forrest

moralpanic: Weird how everybody seems to be 'misreading' what you're saying. In any case, can you point out where doyner said that Obama WASN'T campaigning?

I didn't suggest he said that. I said....

SO YOU AGREE.

In response to....

"Of course he's campaigning".

Anything else need clarification? You reading impaired as well?

So, the Japanese like Obama, and Germans seems to, and now the French. Who does McCain have backing him? Britain and Australia?

How many extra army pieces does this let them put on the board?

3_Butt_Cheeks: moralpanic: Weird how everybody seems to be 'misreading' what you're saying. In any case, can you point out where doyner said that Obama WASN'T campaigning?

I didn't suggest he said that. I said....

SO YOU AGREE.

In response to....

"Of course he's campaigning".

Anything else need clarification? You reading impaired as well?

Well geez, thanks for pointing it for us Captain Obvious.