Obama; France is the USA's Strongest Ally

[s2art]

France?????


http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100...

[MadMullah]

why not?

what does england in realistic terms have anymore? even its international credibility is shot to pieces.

at least the french stood up and believed in their own policies

[Spiritual_Beggar]

They always have been!!



It was the blooming Frenchies that helped them kick us out of the US all those years ago!

Gave them a great big statue as well....and in return, the Americans named some fried potato after them

Edited by Spiritual_Beggar on Tuesday 11th January 16:12

[V88Dicky]

The bloke's a tit.



Lloyd: "I'm talking about a little place called A-s-p-e-n".

Harry: " I dunno, Lloyd. The French are assholes".

[s2art]

MadMullah said:

why not?

what does england in realistic terms have anymore? even its international credibility is shot to pieces.

at least the french stood up and believed in their own policies

What 'International credibility' does France have?

[Aids]

I will always remember George W`s remark about the French not having a word for entrepeneur!!

Class, utter class

[Spiritual_Beggar]

Aids said:

I will always remember George W`s remark about the French not having a word for entrepeneur!!

Class, utter class

God I miss him..




The world news is just not as entertaining anymore

Used to be more of a highlight than Saturday night TV

Edited by Spiritual_Beggar on Tuesday 11th January 16:18

[Marf]

Aids said:

I will always remember George W`s remark about the French not having a word for entrepeneur!!

Class, utter class

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp

In other news 'gullible' isnt in the 2011 Oxford English Dictionary.

Edited by Marf on Tuesday 11th January 16:18

[Muntu]

[Aids]

Seriously though, cannot see either man surviving after 2012, given the economic problems facing both countries.

Judging from experience from my visits to Texas and California a few months ago. President Obama is exactly Mr Popular.

Notwithstanding a Democrat governor was elected in California in November, 2010.

[Shay HTFC]

Aids said:

Judging from experience from my visits to Texas and California a few months ago. President Obama is exactly Mr Popular.

In other news, judging from experience from my visit to Salford a few months ago, Margaret Thatcher isn't exactly Mrs Popular.

[BoRED S2upid]

Im all for this, withdraw all our troops and let the French take up the slack, they have an army right?

[Spiritual_Beggar]

BoRED S2upid said:

Im all for this, withdraw all our troops and let the French take up the slack, they have an army right?

They did...but they ran away!


Vive La resistance!

[Puggit]

At a grass-roots level, the average American loves the Brits. They understand who has stood shoulder to shoulder with them through many incidents and wars.

As for the French? The average American treats them with the contempt that the French treat the rest of the world with

[Tsippy]

Puggit said:

At a grass-roots level, the average American loves the Brits. They understand who has stood shoulder to shoulder with them through many incidents and wars.

As for the French? The average American treats them with the contempt that the French treat the rest of the world with

To be honest, that's my experience of Americans too from Uni students to the military, not big fans of the French

[EDLT]

So in one sentence he's insulted the British, confused the French and possibly annoyed his own people (who still hold a grudge over the whole Iraq thing).

Why do so many people outside of America like him?

[Bluebarge]

Ooh - Politician in buttering up someone he needs something from shocker!

I find the most disturbing aspect of this article is the pathetically needy attitude of some Brits towards the Yanks - they don't love us, they're our allies because they need something from us, and vice versa.

We'll all be China's bh in 30 years' time anyway.

[grumbledoak]

One wonders what he wants from France now. Assuming it isn't Mrs Sarkozy, of course. They do have some very different international relations to the US/UK ones. Their oil deals in particular were close to switching to Euros at one point and that would hurt America badly.

And they most definitely have an army; their Foreign Legion was practically in Baghdad before being recalled in the first Gulf War.

[anonymous-user]

MadMullah said:

why not?

what does england in realistic terms have anymore? even its international credibility is shot to pieces.

at least the french stood up and believed in their own policies

England doesn't even have it's own government, what policies could it have?

[FourWheelDrift]

Don't they still serve Freedom Fries in the US?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries