According to both my memory of boot camp and googling (cite is a few posts before), an ambassador in-country ‘outranks’ (in precedence and honors) all the cabinet secretaries (even the Secretary of State, which is rather counter-intuitive).
Could have sent John McCain, we can easily handle a war with France, we still have the maps, the roads probably are pretty much the same.
Or maybe just annex Quebec, and then give it back.
While I was actually making a point, it was also a Battlestar Galactica reference (the new one, not the original). But no matter that you didn’t get it-- Washte!
Forget Obama’s snub, what about the French snubbing us. We’ve had the Sandyhook shooting and the Boston Bombing and frigging 9/11, and not once has the French president dropped everything he was doing and come to the US on two days notice for a photo op. Arrogant frogs, I say we bomb Paris just to show 'em who’s boss.
[del]Radical Islamists[/del] Republicans sure are easily offended.
Just got back form the bank where I rain into my buddy’s wife, who is French. I asked here what she thought of this scandal, and she just laughed.
And then we decided to meet for a drink later…
just kidding about that last part.
So does this episode mean that Benghazi! really is over?
Decent quality bait, hit the right buttons to annoy libs, got some big time bites too. Mostly stayed in the lines, a little obviously over the top at parts though. The following bit was my favorite, elicited a chuckle from the overwrought sentimentality.
Great. Top U.S. diplomat for Europe, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was there and marched at the rally.
To be fair, I’m sure that if Obama had dropped everything and flown there to lock arms with Hollande and Merkel and belt out La Marseillaise, Beanie Weenie would be lionizing him with equally purple prose.
Right?
Terr and Clothy would have linked arms and danced jubilantly while singing Yankee Doodle Dandy and Hail to the Chief.
You mean the diplomat who said “Fuck the EU”? That Victoria Nuland?
Maybe Nuland’s Ukrainian puppet represented Obama?
That is my reaction!!!
As the much-adored, much-adorned OP of this thread, there is much I would like to say.
However, I will let The White House do my talking for me.
Fuck all you, and have a nice day.
You’re (still) an idiot if you think that resembles your OP.
You’re a stupid man that lets RW pundits think for you.
My favorite quote from that article:
Nothing is ever President Obama’s responsibility, is it?
I guess he’s not familiar with Harry Truman.
Keep on fucking that chicken, D’Anconia.
Go fuck a cactus.