I don’t know if they’re partisans, but their criticism is idiotic. Sometimes the President can’t hop on a plane on short notice. He sent the ambassador – a perfectly appropriate official to send.
And the French are fine with it.
The derp is strong in this thread.
If he had gone, you’d be screaming about the waste of time and tax dollars.
“Prolly some kinda liberal hippie ice cream,” he was heard to mutter.
Of course. They are idiots. You’re the smart one.
I do not know these people but my comment was about the comments here, which I think was clear. It was not about whatever idiocies the partisan politics in the usa have created out of your extreme self centeredness.
It is a scandale only for you extreme partisans and for the self centered americans.
The point is not so much Andrea Mitchell, but NBC (the network on which she said this). I know there is knee-jerk reaction on this MB to think that FoxNews is always and everywhere a partisan machine, but when the other networks are doing the same thing, I think that argument falls short.
Frankly, I’m surprise to hear her say such thing, as she is generally a well respected reporter (even if she IS married to Allan Greenspan 
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It couldn’t possibly be that you and iiiandiiii are wrong, could it? No, it must be Andrea Mitchell that is wrong, even though it is a “surprise”.
No, they said something idiotic. I do that sometimes too. You probably do too, though I don’t know if you’ll admit it. Saying something idiotic doesn’t make one necessarily an idiot.
I certainly could be wrong, but I think she is, and I think her criticism is idiotic.
When the French and the europeans start complaining then there is a snub, but if there is not such, then it is not. it is quite simple, I think the sdmb term is the Offenderati always seeking offense.
But I do not believe any of this is honest, it is your stupid american politics that is making yourselves more important than the actual event, which is itself disgusting. Not that you would have any sense of shame.
You just did.
Who was it who said “you will never go broke underestimating the stupidity of American consumers?” Republicans have cornered the stupid market for their voters and Fox News audience and seem to be doing pretty well selling lies and impoverishment to their followers among the 99%
So is Francois Hollande wrong, too?
Burn!!! Score to you, Terr, who I consider one of my very closest and most intimate Doper friends.
I love your sense of humor. I love it so much I want to kiss it. Let me kiss your beautiful sense of humor, my loving friend. Please.
Francois Hollande is diplomatic.
Well, he is French, you know…
So, pretty much listening to RW media makes you into a delusional moron.
Just because some twat in a suit on the teevee says something is outrageous, doesn’t make it so.
It’s more of an opinion than a fact, so I’m not sure anyone is “wrong”. I’m surprised that here opinion is different from mine on this matter. It seems of little import.
Terrorism happens. I don’t expect Obama to jump on a plane and go wherever the latest incident is, wherever in the world it is.
There were more people killed in Nigeria recently than in Paris. Why aren’t all those European leaders rushing off to Nigeria to show solidarity?
Prepare for disappointment when he whips it out.
Since when are our conservative friends outraged about insulting France?