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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 15, 2009, 08:25:51 PM
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France has been cooing along with everyone else over the arrival of Bo Obama at the White House, but the master of America's new First Dog is no longer in good odour with President Sarkozy.
Mr Sarkozy is pouring cold water on President Obama's efforts to recast American leadership on the world stage, depicting them as unoriginal, unsubstantial and overrated. Behind leaks and briefings from the Elysée Palace lies Mr Sarkozy's irritation at the rock-star welcome that Europe gave Mr Obama on his Europan tour earlier this month.
The American President's call "to free the world of the menace of a nuclear nightmare" was hot air, Mr Sarkozy's diplomatic staff told him in a report. "It was rhetoric – not a speech on American security policy but an export model aimed at improving the image of the United States," they said. Most of Mr Obama's proposals had already been made by the Bush administration and Washington was dragging its feet on disarmament and treaties against nuclear proliferation, the leaked report said.
Personal pique and French politics are also behind the souring of Mr Sarkozy's self-promoted honeymoon with the United States. On the personal side, the French President is needled by the adulation for an unproven US leader whose stardom has eclipsed what he sees as his established record as a world troubleshooter. "The President is annoyed by what he sees as the naivety and the herd mentality of the media," said a journalist who is privy to Elysée thinking. [We feel your pain, Nick]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/world_agenda/article6098836.ece
*Now with picture goodness - TRG
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And they say Bush looked like a chimp? You can find pics of anyone that makes them look like a monkey.
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needled by the adulation for an unproven US leader
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I might be turning French!!!!
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I guess we'll have to start buying French wine again. I'm starting to like the French more and more. :-)
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I might be turning French!!!!
This will really flip your noodle:
North Texan earns French Legion of Honor medal
12:41 AM CDT on Wednesday, April 15, 2009
By MICHAEL E. YOUNG / The Dallas Morning News
myoung@dallasnews.com
RICHARDSON – Army 1st Sgt. William R. Johnson almost single-handedly drove his company through a hailstorm of enemy fire in a desperate push through northern France.
For his bravery, the World War II veteran was awarded the Bronze Star. Sixty-five years later, the French government recognized his bravoure , too.
On Tuesday, Consul General Pierre Grandjouan presented Johnson, 89, that nation's highest honor for meritorious service to the country: the French Legion of Honor medal.
The decoration was designed by Napoleon himself in 1802.
In a letter to Johnson, Pierre Vimont, the French ambassador to the U.S., said the award of "chevalier" – the French equivalent of "knight" – speaks of his country's gratitude "for your personal, precious contribution to the United States' decisive role in the liberation of our country during World War II."
Johnson, 24 at the time and freshly married, led his men in combat near Ottenville et Recrange, near the fortress city of Metz, which their 95th Infantry Division had taken a few days before.
Mortars fell like hailstones, and the heavy machine guns in two German pillboxes cut down anything that moved.
Staying put wasn't an option. So Johnson rallied his men forward toward their objective, pushing them and ultimately breaking through. Days later, the men of the 95th fought across the Saar River, gateway to Nazi Germany.
In 2004, France began honoring World War II American soldiers whose medals proved their bravery. More than 800 have been recognized in the past five years. Previously, the military medal was given only to World War I veterans.
"The Legion of Honor is the oldest and highest honor we have," Grandjouan said at Tuesday's ceremony, attended by family members, friends and neighbors at the Atria Richardson Senior Living Center.
"We don't give it easily – to heads of state, very prominent people and a few soldiers who helped our country during the wars.
"This might seem a long time coming – 65 years – but it is a mark of the gratitude we have for you. ... The time you spent in Europe helping us, it was extremely important, and we want to thank you for that."
Johnson's children portrayed their father as a man of strong faith and dedication, with a keen sense of honor. Given an objective, he'd do everything in his power to achieve it.
An Alabama farm boy from a little town called Choccolocco, Johnson decided early that the farm life wasn't for him.
An older sister had married and moved to Port Arthur, and he followed her there, ultimately meeting his wife, Marion, in the Texas coastal town.
With war looming, no one would give him a job – "You're going to get drafted in a couple of months anyway," employers told him.
So he enlisted in the Army in September 1941, married Marion in 1944 and, like hundreds of thousands of other young men, soon found himself fighting across France, selflessly and heroically.
Ross Perot spoke quietly with Johnson before Tuesday's ceremony and honored him as it ended.
"I've had the pleasure of knowing many of our great national heroes," Perot said, "but none are more deserving of that title than this man."
After quoting Abraham Lincoln – "Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure" – Perot led the crowd of 60 or so in a cheer.
"I'll say 'hip-hip' and you say 'hooray,' and when I say it the third time, you blow the roof off," Perot said.
They certainly did their best.
Last to speak was the honoree, a man of few words who did exactly as his son, Tim, predicted: "He probably won't say much."
But Johnson, who shows the lingering effects of a stroke in 2000, was clearly touched by the attention.
"This came as quite a surprise to me after so many years," he said, pausing, then pointing to Consul General Grandjouan.
"This man here, I give him credit for everything."
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/041509dnfrenchlegion.3d3c821.html?nTar=OPUR
To the French he's a hero...
...to Obama's admin he's a potential terrorist.
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Maybe France is ready to throw off it's decadent love affair socialism and start to amount to something.
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And then of course there was the customary French Kiss... that wasn't.
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According to the Drudge Report, the byline is that Sarkozy considers "the messiah" weak and meek.
If the froggies can see through him, what does that say about him?
The interesting part is where they say that "the messiah" is pushing G.W.'s proposals as his OWN.
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According to the Drudge Report, the byline is that Sarkozy considers "the messiah" weak and meek.
If the froggies can see through him, what does that say about him?
The interesting part is where they say that "the messiah" is pushing G.W.'s proposals as his OWN.
From what I've read of the European news articles on the G-20 trip...the whole EU saw right though him.
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According to the Drudge Report, the byline is that Sarkozy considers "the messiah" weak and meek.
If the froggies can see through him, what does that say about him?
The interesting part is where they say that "the messiah" is pushing G.W.'s proposals as his OWN.
I'm waiting for Sarkozy to start comparing Barry to Jimmy Peanut...and wishing for the "good old days".
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From what I've read of the European news articles on the G-20 trip...the whole EU saw right though him.
Well, when you send a boy to do a man's job.........................
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Well, when you send a boy to do a man's job.........................
RACIST!!!11!eleventy
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I just hope the French People will keep conservatives in power. They are finally showing some spine.
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If the froggies can see through him, what does that say about him?
It more than just the frogs, the British press has been ripping Hussein a new one pointing out he didn't even get close to getting all the cooperation he wanted. The terrorists know he's a paper tiger, the pirates know he's a paper tiger, and the European leaders know he's a pushover. And that the press was fawning over this rookie idiot only helped fuel their dislike. They'll act all nicey-nice in front of the camera, but they're laughing at him.
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