Obama Zeroes In On French Bashing Republicans
Editorials - Tweet this! August 19th, 2008“They say this other guy is unpatriotic, or this guy likes French people. That’s what they said about Kerry (…) They try to make it out like Democrats aren’t tough enough, aren’t macho enough. It’s the same strategy.” -Senator Barack Obama, August 18, 2008. Sources: IHT – FOXNews – ABC News
En français par Chamizam (LePost.fr)
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August 25th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Anti-French John McCain quotes:
“They remind me of an aging movie actress in the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn’t have the face for it.”
“Perhaps Churchill and Roosevelt made a very serious mistake when they decided to give France a veto in the Security Council when the United Nations was organized.”
“We now have a pro-American president in France, which shows if you live long enough, anything can happen in this world.”
Sources : Perspectives – McCain.com
August 28th, 2008 at 11:04 am
For as long as I can remember, the Republican Party has had their whipping boys that they use to shift responsibility for their foibles and blunders. This year it is illegal immigration, which, ironically, a lot of businesses that are owned by Republicans use for cheap labor. France is another, because they have fomented Franco-hatred ever since France refused to play along with George W. Bush’s war on Iraq. It’s cheap, it’s easy and it makes them look like they are the good guys, at least to their target audience.
That in mind, John McCain is just one of a long line of many Republicans who deal ignorance, xenophobia, blame-shifting and war-mongering as so-called American values.
August 30th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
From Slate.com: The French Are Coming!: Romney was widely mocked last fall when he warned that France posed a clear and present danger to the American way of life. But after watching French President Nicolas Sarkozy embrace Barack Obama in Paris last week, conservatives may finally warm to Mitt’s “First, Not France” slogan after all. Romney has impeccable credentials as a Francophobe; Sarkozy would never dream of saying of him, “If he is chosen, then France will be delighted.” In a few short hours in Paris, Obama claimed the president as a convert. Romney spent two whole years in France and converted no one whatsoever.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 am
Just a reminder – DemocracyArsenal.org: “John McCain engaged in the anti-French bashing of the far right because they opposed the invasion of the war. “The Lord said the poor will always be with us, and the French will be with us, too,” said McCain, a member of the Armed Services Committee. “This is part of a continuing French practice of throwing sand in the gears of the Atlantic alliance. But now they’re playing a dangerous game, and coming close to rendering themselves irrelevant.” A few days later he even said that, “Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) likened France to an aging ’40s starlet “still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn’t have the face for it.” [NY Times, 2/14/03. NY Daily News, 2/17/03]“
September 10th, 2008 at 12:10 am
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November 2nd, 2008 at 2:19 am
I am glad to see a US politician finally calling people out on that one.