From: Travis Date: Sat, Jun 13, 2009 Subject: Obama doesn't know who the French president is
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/gaffe-obama-does-not-know-who-the-french-president-is Obama doesn’t know who the French president is March 23, 2009, 5:09 pm · 6 comments<http://www.ihatethemedia.com/gaffe-obama-does-not-know-who-the-french-president-is#comments> ** [image: Napoleon Sarkozy. Or Nicholas Bonaparte. Or some French leader. (Photo credit: azrainman)] Napoleon Sarkozy. Or Nicholas Bonaparte. Or some French leader. (Photo credit: azrainman) Imagine the outrage in the media if George Bush had mistakenly written a diplomatic letter to the former leader of an ally instead of its current leader. Sadly, but not so surprisingly, that’s exactly what President Obama just did. The online version of leading French newspaper Le Figaro says President Obama sent a letter to French Jacques Chirac saying that he wants to “work with him” over the next four years. Oops! Chirac isn’t president of France anymore. Nicolas Sarkozy was elected to that office in May 2007. Obama’s letter said, “I am certain that we will be able to work together, in the coming four years, in a spirit of peace and friendship to build a safer world.” Coming just a few days after Obama insulted British Prime Minster Gordon Brown, this is apparently part of a undisclosed plan by Obama to alienate NATO members one-by-one. In other diplomatic news, President Obama has also sent letters to Russian Czar Nicholas II, English Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck. Source: Le Figaro<http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualites/2009/03/19/01001-20090319ARTFIG00357-confidentiel-barack-obama-a-ecrit-a-jacques-chirac-.php> If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. … We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. –Sir Karl Popper __,_._,___ -- *~@):~{> -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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