Ah, so it’s your business plan. Getting the returns you expected?
So far, hell yeah. What has being a friend of Obama ever gotten anyone? HEck, it’s really perilous to be on his staff, you get thrown under the bus whenever he screws up.
So when did France become our allies and stop being freedom-hating socialist terrorist-sympathizing cowards? Exactly when between March 2003 and now did that transition occur?
The French are our allies, although they can be problematic at times, so there’s nothing wrong with having a public tiff with them now and then. You should read Wes Clark’s book for some good examples of how unnecessarily difficult they can be.
But not standing with them when 40 other nations did does make us look like assholes. Bush wouldn’t have done that. At the very least, Colin Powell would have been there.
Are you as simplistic and stupid in real life as you are here? Just curious.
So, there are things that you just can’t make fun of?
CMC fnord!
I admit it takes a rather sophisticated mind to disagree with everyone, including the President, about whether a high ranking official should have been sent. Your obstinance would do GWB proud.
So now you’re saying you agree with Obama?
Barack Obama doesn’t care about black people.
You don’t have the slightest fucking idea what Bush would have done, and neither does anyone else.
They weren’t Kenyans.
I can only quote myself as it seems there is no shame among the americans who want to hijack these events for their low and vulgar partisan politics. it is most unconvincing Terr and adaher have any concern in reality at all, as of course it is clear neither truly care about or for the France, and only care to make stupid and adolescent partisan commentaries which in fact insult the entire idea.
To be honest, I first heard this concern, or lament, about the insufficiently high-level American representation in Paris, not from the reflexive critics of Obama. Nor from any Europeans. But from liberal-minded Americans who saw the Paris demonstration as one of profound import, relative to (not only) American ideals… and I think they wanted to be represented. Not for domestic partisan purposes at all.
Jack Tapper, Andrea Mitchell, and Aaron David Miller are not “reflexive critics of Obama”.
Ramira, where are you?
Terr & adaher do not stand for all Americans. They stand for the Right Wingers who hate our President. The echo chamber makes them very loud.
Here’s another shot of the photo op that President Obama did not attend. I believe he handled the sad situation properly.
If he had attended, I guarantee that the Right Wing Dittoheads would have been complaining about the unnecessary expense. (These same people said some extremely rude things about the French when they wisely declined to accompany Bush & Blair into Iraq.)
In other words, the “snub” perceived wasn’t from Obama to the French, but from Obama to us, to those Americans who felt our (shared) values attacked, and who would have gone into the Paris streets in answer too, if we could. We might have liked our President to make that gesture for us.
Again, not a “pity fest” at all. An element of mourning, to be sure, but above all, a demonstration of solidarity and resolve.
Are these people “Right Wingers who hate our President”?
Terr any myself represent the majority of Americans here in this bastion of Obama dead-enderism.
Yes. Not sure what your point is, relative to mine.