Like the spoiled little rich princess in every 80's teenage angst movie, the French are looking across the tracks and failing in love with the outspoken, unpopular geek who turns into the triumphant winner.
The good people of France are starting to second guess their original stance on the war with Iraq.
Oh how 1945 of them.
Now if they would just hurry things along and be the good little arrogant NATO ally they usually are, I can get on with more important things like buttering waffles.
Join the fray by reading through and commenting at the end.
Thanks to Tom Dolan of Killing Goliath for the article link. Airbag is the official source of anti-French asshat commentary for KG.
It's only reasonable to understand that even though the government is not participating with the coalition; and some individuals are acting the fool regarding dead Englishmen; some French are reasonable people who see Hussein for the evil tyrant that he is. It's that "painting with a broad brush" that's dangerous. (inductive generalization)
Here's a howler from the article: "Once Chirac is comfortably re-elected and Bush and Blair chased from power," he wrote, "Paris more than ever will be the capital of the world."
um...delusions of grandeur seem infectuous these days...
Beerzie Boy - Here's the fun part. Ask any democrat about the 2000 election, then ask any frenchman about the 2002 election which Chirac won. You're likely to get harsher comments from the Frenchman. The Florida "Electile Dysfunction" fiasco is small potatoes to how badly they screwed up their last election, where they were basically given the choice between Chirac the puppet of organized crime against, well, Stalin.
Greg, one of these days, you simply have to regale us with the origin of the term "asshat". I used it in a sentence the other day and found it incredibly satisfying.
Chris, as far as I know, "asshat" was popularized on Fark.com (that's Drew Curtis' Fark.com) as a term of derision. It's a great word - I used it in front of my wife and a couple of friends not too long ago in describing someone in local politics with whom we disagree, and put everyone on the floor laughing. You're right - it is incredibly satisfying.
It is most definately a gratifying word to use. I try to work it in with every conversation I have now — usually after evey time I use the words: hey, total, complete, that, or French.
i hope they get on board soon, my french toast boycott is killing me.
That link coded wrong on purpose? ;)
Doh! Who's the asshat now?
Thanks Tom.
To the comment of Boysen that in France some people seems Saddam as the evil, I can only add that in Europe some people see Bush as a selfish evil and Blair as a sheep following US without thinking. See also this poor Spain first minister who support Bush before the war and have now no word to say anymore! He is may be the first one to understand what the US govt is doing!
What is the US Government doing?
It's hard to nail down, as it changes almost hourly.
Painting with the broad brush indeed! Thank you Boysen, it's nice to know that not everyone thinks that because someone happens to be French that they must be an Anti-American idot.
Disliking ones politics is natural, but the slam that ALL French people are evil is pure ignorance. But I guess the quote: "Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed. - Bertrand Russell "
holds true.
Merry Part
To compare Bush and Hussein and arrive at a conclusion where both earn the same evaluation, shows the error in the test or bias in the analysis.
Disagreeing with someone, no more makes them evil than it makes you good. (sounds kinda catchy)