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Obama Goes to France, Doesn't Speak French

Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:43:18 am PDT

Barack Obama is doing a press conference in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and here’s a thread to discuss it ...

UPDATE at 7/25/08 9:59:29 am:

The presser’s done; how disappointing not to hear Obama attempt a “Merci beaucoup!” for the French media.

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1 mbruce  7/25/08 9:45:15 am reply quote 10

Obama: Why do you all talk like Clouseau?

2 MandyManners  7/25/08 9:45:39 am reply quote 3

I know enough to get my face slapped.

3 Kosh's Shadow  7/25/08 9:45:48 am reply quote 11

Can we swap Obama for Sarkozy?
(And some French models to be named later)

4 CIA Reject  7/25/08 9:45:53 am reply quote 7

I guess the French will be relinquishing the mantle of "surrender champion" to it's new holder...

5 psyop  7/25/08 9:46:00 am reply quote 0

I am so embarrassed....

We Americans going over to Europe and expecting them to speak our language to communicate with us.

/sarc

6 Crimsonfisted  7/25/08 9:46:18 am reply quote 3

Merci beau coups Charles!

7 Typicalwhitey  7/25/08 9:46:18 am reply quote 0

Just asked if anything he has heard has changed his mind on any of his policies?
Asked the French president is he is endorsing obambi

8 ORD neighbor  7/25/08 9:46:28 am reply quote 0

But his ideas on de facto surrender put US and France to shame.

9 Typicalwhitey  7/25/08 9:46:49 am reply quote 0

NOthing he heard or saw that caused him to change his basic STRATEGIC policies

10 pre-Boomer Marine brat  7/25/08 9:46:56 am reply quote 0

Obama, France & Sarkozy ... uh ... well ... Sarkozy has lots of good points, maybe I've gotta save my invective for the first two.

11 zombie  7/25/08 9:46:57 am reply quote 4

Speaking of pissants...

News at zomblog:

Last year’s urine: A tree-sitters’ Golden Oldie

Containing the classic line:

The weaponized urine — revealed at last!
12 JammieWearingFool  7/25/08 9:47:00 am reply quote 5

He said he was embarrassed that Americans aren't bilingual, yet this affirmative action empty suit can barely speak one language: English.

Uh, um, uhh, hope, uh, change, uhhhhhhhh....

13 Noam Sayin'  7/25/08 9:47:13 am reply quote 1

Omelette du fromage.

14 kyjed  7/25/08 9:47:20 am reply quote 1

Why should he learn to speak French - he's going to be President of the World and they are all his fellow citizens.

15 lawhawk  7/25/08 9:47:23 am reply quote 0

For someone who claims to be knowledgable about such things, Obama is a lightweight.

Based on his appearance at a German restaurant to chide Obama about his Berlin speech, will McCain appear at a French restaurant and note that he knows a word or two of French, learned while being held in Vietnam?

16 nyc redneck  7/25/08 9:47:23 am reply quote 12

he speaks only "uh uh" and teleprompter.

17 Sheldon  7/25/08 9:47:30 am reply quote 0

wee

18 Typicalwhitey  7/25/08 9:47:35 am reply quote 0

Iraq has greatly improved
Iraqi govt is ready to take more responsibility

19 JamesTKirk  7/25/08 9:47:53 am reply quote 5

Technically speaking, I'd consider not speaking French to be one of the very few points in Obama's favor.

20 Killgore Trout  7/25/08 9:47:56 am reply quote 6

I'm beginning to think Obama's trip is going to be a flop.

21 Ojoe  7/25/08 9:48:00 am reply quote 0

The French like American comedians.

22 yitzy  7/25/08 9:48:17 am reply quote 0

All I can say is "Merci beaucoup."

23 Typicalwhitey  7/25/08 9:48:23 am reply quote 0

annapolis talks useful and productive.

24 Crimsonfisted  7/25/08 9:48:25 am reply quote 0

re: #16 nyc redneck

he speaks only "uh uh" and teleprompter.

I love that, he speaks TELEPROMPTER,

25 Ringo the Gringo  7/25/08 9:48:32 am reply quote 0

He knows how to say mercee bow ku.

26 Typicalwhitey  7/25/08 9:48:42 am reply quote 0

You are correct Kilgore

27 lawhawk  7/25/08 9:48:43 am reply quote 0

The media, of course, is spinning furiously about how and why Obama isn't spending more time in Paris - it might get folks back home upset that he's got lots of support overseas.

28 Ornery Ballsack  7/25/08 9:49:00 am reply quote 1

Christianne Amanpour asked Sarkozy if standing next to Obama he felt bad for referring to French rioters of immigrant origins "scum"? She decided not to ask her other question "Senator Obama, did you enjoy your trip to the Eiffel Tower?"

29 ElChimpy  7/25/08 9:49:00 am reply quote 1

Won't his glow and aura speak for him? The Obamania translates into the universal language. Like "I'm a Pepper, You're a Pepper", the Macarena, or herpes.

30 Typicalwhitey  7/25/08 9:49:25 am reply quote 0

Says the Israeli's are interested in what a shift in foreign policy would entail.
That could be a game changer.
WTF?

31 JamesTKirk  7/25/08 9:49:35 am reply quote 4

re: #21 Ojoe

The French like American comedians.

Barack Hussein Obama - the Jerry Lewis of politics.

32 Creeping Eruption  7/25/08 9:49:55 am reply quote 0

re: #11 zombie

Speaking of pissants...

News at zomblog:

Last year’s urine: A tree-sitters’ Golden Oldie

Containing the classic line:

LOL. I love how tree huggers despoil and blight the very trees they are trying to save. The city should condemn that filthy area as a health hazard. It must have been beautiful before all those homeless libs moved in.

33 Ojoe  7/25/08 9:49:55 am reply quote 0

re: #29 ElChimpy

Habanero escape

34 JammieWearingFool  7/25/08 9:50:17 am reply quote 0

How does one say empty suit in Fwench?

35 lawhawk  7/25/08 9:50:33 am reply quote 5

On a related topic - Bush has gone cowboy again. Stymied by the UN, Bush pushes additional US sanctions against Zimbabwe.

So much for all that "we" talk that Obama proffered yesterday. The world couldn't care less about Zimbabwe. Or Darfur. Or anywhere else for that matter.

36 Kosh's Shadow  7/25/08 9:50:39 am reply quote 6

re: #31 JamesTKirk

Barack Hussein Obama - the Jerry Lewis of politics.

Please don't insult Jerry Lewis.

37 Killgore Trout  7/25/08 9:50:48 am reply quote 0

re: #26 Typicalwhitey
I think it's just too much, too overblown. It's just so weird that he's campaigning to Americans through the Europeans.

38 lawhawk  7/25/08 9:51:11 am reply quote 2

re: #34 JammieWearingFool

Jacques Kerri?

39 Ojoe  7/25/08 9:51:23 am reply quote 2

re: #37 Killgore Trout

I'm very insulted that he is doing that

40 Kosh's Shadow  7/25/08 9:51:34 am reply quote 0

re: #35 lawhawk

On a related topic - Bush has gone cowboy again. Stymied by the UN, Bush pushes additional US sanctions against Zimbabwe.

So much for all that "we" talk that Obama proffered yesterday. The world couldn't care less about Zimbabwe. Or Darfur. Or anywhere else for that matter.

No, they care about the palestinian terrorists; those need to be taken care of so they can kill more Israelis.

41 pre-Boomer Marine brat  7/25/08 9:51:36 am reply quote 0

re: #34 JammieWearingFool

How does one say empty suit in Fwench?

Not "Carla"

42 Da_Beerfreak  7/25/08 9:51:37 am reply quote 2

So, is this todays ID* thread?

*Ignorant Democrat

43 parisparamus  7/25/08 9:51:38 am reply quote 1

This is a conundrum: Sarkozy is now hated by the French media, i.e, the French left, but adores Obama. Does Obama lose points for meeting with Sarcozy, or does Sarcozy gain points for meeting with Obama? Oh, I know. Via LefyLogic, Sarcozy loses points, and Obama gains points!

Also, it's Omelette au fromage...

44 zombie  7/25/08 9:51:47 am reply quote 1

When it was rumored that Obama might visit the Vatican on his European tour, the Pope's palindromist was heard to remark,

"Amabo Obama."

45 JammieWearingFool  7/25/08 9:52:15 am reply quote 0

re: #38 lawhawk

Jacques Kerri?

Bingo!

46 Typicalwhitey  7/25/08 9:52:22 am reply quote 0

re: #37 Killgore Trout

He should have stopped after Iraq and Afghanistan
This would have been a huge win then.
It is going on too long and he is looking very unintelligent in this presser.

47 obscured by clouds  7/25/08 9:52:24 am reply quote 1

If only Obama were running for President of the EU, he'd have my support.

48 Killgore Trout  7/25/08 9:52:42 am reply quote 2

re: #39 Ojoe

I think the Europeans are insulted too. He's not speaking to them or saying anything that interests them. The Europeans are just being used.

49 VegasRick  7/25/08 9:52:49 am reply quote 0

re: #13 Noam Sayin'

Omelette du fromage.

" Ah vood lak to go to zee hotel"

50 pat  7/25/08 9:52:55 am reply quote 0

Merci Beaucoup
/in an Elvis accent

51 CIA Reject  7/25/08 9:53:10 am reply quote 5

You know, McCain could have a lot of fun with BO's World Tour by making his own visits to Berlin and Paris:

Berlin, New York
Berlin, Connecticut
Berlin, Pennsylvania
Berlin, Wisconsin
Berlin, North Dakota
Paris, Texas
Paris, Maine
Paris, Kentucky
Paris, Ohio
Paris, Illinois

etc.

52 Killgore Trout  7/25/08 9:53:21 am reply quote 0

re: #46 Typicalwhitey

Agreed.

53 JamesTKirk  7/25/08 9:53:31 am reply quote 2

re: #48 Killgore Trout

I think the Europeans are insulted too. He's not speaking to them or saying anything that interests them. The Europeans are just being used.

The French like being used.

They prefer it to be accompanied by a German accent, though.

54 Ojoe  7/25/08 9:53:33 am reply quote 2

re: #51 CIA Reject

Moscow Idaho

55 Typicalwhitey  7/25/08 9:53:38 am reply quote 1

French president:
If obambi is elected then france will be delighted.
If someone else is then france will continue to be a friend of America.

That is a DIRECT QUOTE>

56 calvin coolidge  7/25/08 9:53:59 am reply quote 0

To the French: Jerry Lewis wasn't available today so here is someone just as humorous.

57 JamesTKirk  7/25/08 9:54:08 am reply quote 1

re: #55 Typicalwhitey

French president:
If obambi is elected then france will be delighted.
If someone else is then france will continue to be a friend of America.

That is a DIRECT QUOTE>

"France will continue to be a friend of France."

58 Kosh's Shadow  7/25/08 9:54:15 am reply quote 0

Someone play "La Marseillaise"

59 pat  7/25/08 9:54:18 am reply quote 1

re: #51 CIA Reject

And he could have tossed in Moscow for a tiebreaker.

60 Creeping Eruption  7/25/08 9:54:21 am reply quote 4

OT: I know how this guy feels sometimes:

Man charged with shooting his lawn mower

61 JamesTKirk  7/25/08 9:54:33 am reply quote 0

re: #56 calvin coolidge

To the French: Jerry Lewis wasn't available today so here is someone just as humorous.

"La la la this is my wife NICE LAAAAAADYYYYYY!"

62 Occasional Reader  7/25/08 9:54:36 am reply quote 1

re: #37 Killgore Trout

I think it's just too much, too overblown. It's just so weird that he's campaigning to Americans through the Europeans.

While telegraphing to the Europeans that they're racists ("I know I don't look like other Americans who have spoken in this city").
Of course, he offers the hope of redemption; love me, and you're no longer a racist.

63 pre-Boomer Marine brat  7/25/08 9:54:39 am reply quote 2

re: #51 CIA Reject

Palestine, Texas

64 MandyManners  7/25/08 9:54:40 am reply quote 1

re: #13 Noam Sayin'

Omelette du fromage.

Trish! You spoke French!

65 Typicalwhitey  7/25/08 9:55:00 am reply quote 0

Anyone got any booze?
I am feeling lightheaded from listening to this tool.....but I shall soldier on!

66 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  7/25/08 9:55:01 am reply quote 3

re: #5 psyop

I am so embarrassed....

We Americans going over to Europe and expecting them to speak our language to communicate with us.

/sarc

Normally, we just end up going over there and winning their wars for them.

67 Maui Girl  7/25/08 9:55:36 am reply quote 2

Here's my take on this whole Obama trip. His advisors have told him to act as if he is already President. I don't ever recall a Senator having press conferences with the heads of other nations. Perhaps their counterparts in governments of other nations but not the President or Prime Minister or Head Dictator. I'm sure someone can come up with examples to refute my claims (I hope) because this is all getting rather unnerving that this junion senator from Illinois is having such importance placed upon him by the media and other governmental bodies.

68 Charles  7/25/08 9:55:39 am reply quote 9

What? He couldn't even come out with a "merci beaucoup" for the French press?

69 JamesTKirk  7/25/08 9:55:42 am reply quote 4

re: #62 Occasional Reader

While telegraphing to the Europeans that they're racists ("I know I don't look like other Americans who have spoken in this city")...

I loved hearing from Brits that the USA was too racist to elect a black leader. I'm drawing a blank on all the black Prime Ministers that they've elected; could someone post a list?

70 Killian Bundy  7/25/08 9:55:43 am reply quote 6

Why the hell is he holding a joint press conference with the French President?

/what gaul!

71 Dahveed  7/25/08 9:55:57 am reply quote 0
72 pat  7/25/08 9:56:29 am reply quote 0

re: #67 Maui Girl

Exactly my take.

73 Capitalist Tool  7/25/08 9:56:42 am reply quote 4

Merde.

How was my accent?

It was Obama's to lose and he lost it. Look for mass defections in Denver, with HRC emerging as the real Dem candidate.

74 Typicalwhitey  7/25/08 9:56:49 am reply quote 16

This will backfire.
HE IS ACTING LIKE HE IS ALREADY THE PRESIDENT.

Americans like confidence.
They dislike arrogance.

75 Maui Girl  7/25/08 9:56:59 am reply quote 0

re: #14 kyjed


Precisely.

76 Killgore Trout  7/25/08 9:57:06 am reply quote 0

Great , McCain is meeting with the Ladi Lama later today.
/Gunga da gunga

77 nyc redneck  7/25/08 9:57:07 am reply quote 1

re: #24 Crimsonfisted

I love that, he speaks TELEPROMPTER,

he does too.
he would really be in trouble w/ just "uh uh".

78 jamgarr  7/25/08 9:57:16 am reply quote 0

re: #34 JammieWearingFool

How does one say empty suit in Fwench?

Pas de gravite

79 pre-Boomer Marine brat  7/25/08 9:57:42 am reply quote 0

re: #58 Kosh's Shadow

Someone play "

80 Iron Fist  7/25/08 9:57:58 am reply quote 0

re: #20 Killgore Trout

I'm beginning to think Obama's trip is going to be a flop.


As Martha Stewart says, that's a good thing!

:-)

81 Sharmuta  7/25/08 9:58:18 am reply quote 0

Well- there is the point that the French are known for their ability to surrender- maybe obama wanted some pointers.

82 Duckman  7/25/08 9:58:20 am reply quote 0

Bon Jur, Bon Jur. Parlay vou wanna huma huma?

83 CIA Reject  7/25/08 9:58:35 am reply quote 0

re: #54 Ojoe

Moscow Idaho

LOL! I think that's BO's next stop, no?

84 newsjunkie_ky  7/25/08 9:59:19 am reply quote 0

what did he say about french fries?

85 Occasional Reader  7/25/08 9:59:32 am reply quote 3

re: #69 JamesTKirk

I'm drawing a blank on all the black Prime Ministers that they've elected

I don't know about the PM's, but Parliament seems pretty black.

86 Killgore Trout  7/25/08 9:59:34 am reply quote 0

Obama finally gets a little bounce out of this round the clock media frenzy....
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

The presumptive Democratic nominee attracts 46% of the vote while John McCain earns 41%. When "leaners" are included, it’s Obama 49% and McCain 44%. Just three days ago, the candidates were tied at 46% (with leaners).

87 JammieWearingFool  7/25/08 9:59:37 am reply quote 0

re: #71 Dahveed

88 jamgarr  7/25/08 9:59:57 am reply quote 1

re: #76 Killgore Trout

Great , McCain is meeting with the Ladi Lama later today.
/Gunga da gunga


So - he's got that going for him.

89 pre-Boomer Marine brat  7/25/08 9:59:58 am reply quote 0

re: #68 Charles

What? He couldn't even come out with a "merci beaucoup" for the French press?

It was a mess sewer.

/sorry ... compulsive

90 Capitalist Tool  7/25/08 10:00:25 am reply quote 0

re: #2 MandyManners

I know enough to get my face slapped.

Mon petite chou...

91 Occasional Reader  7/25/08 10:01:03 am reply quote 0

re: #76 Killgore Trout

Great , McCain is meeting with the Ladi Lama later today.
/Gunga da gunga

You mean Dolly the Llama.

Yeah, I have trouble figuring that one out, too. This whole campaign season is surreal. Hey guys, remember us? You know... the American voters?

92 sattv4u2  7/25/08 10:01:05 am reply quote 5

OBAMA,

"After going to all 57 states, I've now been to Germany, France, Iraq, and Afgahnastan. To finish up my world tour and add to my foreign experience, I will be having waffles at International House Of Pancakes"

93 Maui Girl  7/25/08 10:01:09 am reply quote 0

re: #74 Typicalwhitey


See my comment #67.

94 brent  7/25/08 10:01:31 am reply quote 0

Hey Barry, I took eleven years of French, and I still won't vote for your dumb ass... How about those pommes, messy?

I was listening to the news, and I love the reaction of the reporters to the event - they can't believe that Europe only likes him. It's a disappointment that they're not experiencing complete apoplexy.

Oh well, maybe he can go over there in 2009 and hang for a few years, maybe it's an aquired syndrome taste.

95 tfc3rid  7/25/08 10:01:45 am reply quote 0

Just back in fron luch outsiein NYC... As I came into my building a family was walking by clad in a t shirt that had the image of the Obama and it said:

Hope... Making the feelings of the oppressed race the Law if the Land...

Shirt had the official Obama 'O' on it... Interesting...

Also took the elevator up with fashion designer Betsey Johnson... She said my outfit looked good today... I guess that's some high praise...

96 Killgore Trout  7/25/08 10:02:00 am reply quote 1

re: #88 jamgarr

...which is nice.

97 pre-Boomer Marine brat  7/25/08 10:02:56 am reply quote 0

re: #70 Killian Bundy

Why the hell is he holding a joint press conference with the French President?

/what gaul!

Obama's in a lot of truffle

98 CommonCents  7/25/08 10:02:59 am reply quote 0

re: #3 Kosh's Shadow

Can we swap Obama for Sarkozy?
(And some French models to be named later)

With or without the armpit hair? On the models that is...

99 lawhawk  7/25/08 10:02:59 am reply quote 0

re: #79 pre-Boomer Marine brat

They had Lafayette.

100 WrathofG-d  7/25/08 10:03:00 am reply quote 1

Y'all don't think that if he did speak French we would be giving Barack heck for doing that?

101 nyc redneck  7/25/08 10:03:05 am reply quote 1

re: #74 Typicalwhitey

This will backfire.
HE IS ACTING LIKE HE IS ALREADY THE PRESIDENT.

Americans like confidence.
They dislike arrogance.

i'm so in agreement w/ you. this is what gives me hope, that my fellow americans will see thru this arrogant unqualified fool.

102 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  7/25/08 10:03:21 am reply quote 7

re: #92 sattv4u2

OBAMA,

"After going to all 57 states, I've now been to Germany, France, Iraq, and Afgahnastan. To finish up my world tour and add to my foreign experience, I will be having waffles at International House Of Pancakes"

We're going to Germany, and we're going to France, to Spain, and to Italy, and then to Moscow. And then we're going to take back the White House....BYAAAAAA!

103 lawhawk  7/25/08 10:03:50 am reply quote 0

re: #97 pre-Boomer Marine brat

That's no Beaujolais.

104 Maui Girl  7/25/08 10:04:05 am reply quote 4

It continues to amaze me how some people in this country are so enamoured with the Europeans. If it weren't for us Yankees, them Europeans wouldn't be where they are today. (Great Britain aside. And all those underground folks during the WWII.)

Obama is truly an elitist.

105 yesandno  7/25/08 10:04:24 am reply quote 0

Merde!


I am soooooooooooooooooooooo embarrassed.

106 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  7/25/08 10:04:41 am reply quote 1

re: #100 WrathofG-d

Y'all don't think that if he did speak French we would be giving Barack heck for doing that?

Well yeah, but thats just because its French. I'd make fun of anyone for that.

107 sattv4u2  7/25/08 10:04:47 am reply quote 0

re: #100 WrathofG-d

Y'all don't think that if he did speak French we would be giving Barack heck for doing that?

it's only being mentioned because HE gave "us" heck for knowing only 'Merci Beaucoup"

that whole glass house thing !

108 taxfreekiller  7/25/08 10:04:59 am reply quote 1

"uh," mesay,,"ah" , uh, "carpoop, ""

109 lawhawk  7/25/08 10:05:14 am reply quote 1

re: #100 WrathofG-d

Not after chastizing Americans for not speaking the language overseas.

110 CynicalConservative  7/25/08 10:05:14 am reply quote 1

re: #42 Da_Beerfreak

re: #42 Da_Beerfreak

So, is this todays ID* thread?

*Ignorant Democrat

A bit redundant there...

111 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  7/25/08 10:05:22 am reply quote 0

re: #108 taxfreekiller

"uh," mesay,,"ah" , uh, "carpoop, ""

Now thats funny.

112 taxfreekiller  7/25/08 10:05:26 am reply quote 0

ya,,

mesaycarpoop

113 brent  7/25/08 10:05:34 am reply quote 6

# 307
People who live in glass houses subsidized by real estate frauds should not throw stones.

114 kansas  7/25/08 10:05:44 am reply quote 3

Man these guys are just drooling to get this guy in charge of our country.

115 Maui Girl  7/25/08 10:05:49 am reply quote 0

Must get on the treadmill. Au Revoir mes amies!

116 Occasional Reader  7/25/08 10:05:55 am reply quote 0

re: #103 lawhawk

That's no Beaujolais.

I think this whole "Obama wows France" thing is just a canard.

117 Killian Bundy  7/25/08 10:05:59 am reply quote 1

Who died and made him president?

R e-entry after a longish vacation is always a disorienting time. You turn the key and have to push the door hard to get past the drifts of unopened mail. Most of the mail is bills, of course, and that brings on its own sense of delirium.

But for me what’s made the past few days especially bizarre is to find that, after two weeks of avoiding the news cycle, I return to discover that Barack Obama has become my president, prophet and anointed philosopher king — all without an election!

While dumping out heaps of sandy vacation laundry, I learn from NPR that “Barack Obama has left Jordan and is on his way to Israel,” as if his movements are already of such national import that we all need to know what he said before he got on the plane, at what time he’ll be airborne, and what he’s expected to say when he lands.

NPR believes I wish to know these things. I don’t, really. What I’d like to know is why nobody makes a fuss when John McCain goes overseas. We are a politically divided country, after all; half of us, give or take, vote Republican, and you’d think that broadcasters might remember those of us in the Other America.

/I am not a world citizen

118 JamesTKirk  7/25/08 10:06:10 am reply quote 1

re: #104 Maui Girl

It continues to amaze me how some people in this country are so enamoured with the Europeans. If it weren't for us Yankees, them Europeans wouldn't be where they are today...

"Oh, you English are *so* superior, aren't you? Well, would you like to know what you'd be without us, the good ol' U.S. of A. to protect you? I'll tell you. The smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire, that's what! So don't call me stupid, lady. Just thank me. If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking *German!* Singing 'Deutschland, Deutschland über alles...' "
-Harvey Manfred-St.Johnson, CIA

119 barry the baptist  7/25/08 10:06:18 am reply quote 0

Exerpts from political orator of the day- Barack Obama:
Uh, uh, um, uh, um, uh, see, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, well, n-n-no, uh, uh, see, uh, t-t-t-this is, uh, uh, precisely, um, uh, uh, uh, um- wait where was I?

Reminds me of the 'Duh-Duh Man' in New Jack City.

120 CommonCents  7/25/08 10:06:37 am reply quote 1

re: #100 WrathofG-d

Y'all don't think that if he did speak French we would be giving Barack heck for doing that?


I would. I will give him heck regardless of which language he speaks. It's not his vocabulary I have a, uh-uh-uh, problem with, it's his ideas and philosophy. That is if "Hope and Change" are a philosophy.

121 Cygnus  7/25/08 10:06:39 am reply quote 0

re: #60 Creeping Eruption

OT: I know how this guy feels sometimes:

Man charged with shooting his lawn mower

Walendowski had been drinking all morning. Around 9:30 a.m., he attempted to start his 21-inch Lawn-Boy. Unsuccessfully.

MUI - Mowing Under the Influence. Also a future candidate for a Darwin Award.

122 lawhawk  7/25/08 10:07:04 am reply quote 0

re: #116 Occasional Reader

It will flambe quite easily.

123 brainwizard73  7/25/08 10:07:14 am reply quote 1

You know, there is a phrase that Obama might want to think about teaching the American people...

coup d'état

Hmm, was this the kind of foreign phrase he was trying to teach us?

124 keyword  7/25/08 10:07:39 am reply quote 0

re: #118 JamesTKirk

And doesn't 'working' sound a lot more pleasant than 'arbeiten'?

125 pre-Boomer Marine brat  7/25/08 10:07:44 am reply quote 0

re: #99 lawhawk

They had Lafayette.

They also had Charlemagne, who (IIRC) saved Europe from conquest during the First Caliphate. And the French fleet which scuttled itself at Toulon rather than let itself be taken by the Nazis. Yes, they have great things going for them ... but ...

/it's a mystery to me

126 WrathofG-d  7/25/08 10:07:53 am reply quote 0

re: #109 lawhawk

It would have been pretty interesting if he had learned a few words for each country he visted, but I could only imagine the junk he'd be given if he spoke Arabic while in the Hashimite Kingdom Occupying Jordan, or Germany while standing at that statute.

Its a lose/lose for him.

Toda, Gratzie, Gracias, Merci Beucoup, shen she,

127 Silhouette  7/25/08 10:08:03 am reply quote 0

re: #95 tfc3rid

Hope... Making the feelings of the oppressed race the Law if the Land.

At least they are open with their racism.

They are voting for him based on race. And they're looking for revenge for being "oppressed".

128 Cygnus  7/25/08 10:08:39 am reply quote 0

re: #68 Charles

What? He couldn't even come out with a "merci beaucoup" for the French press?

Tip for BO - if anybody says "C'est merde", it's not a compliment.