Gail Collins: Still Awesome

[alexiscartwheel]

With Sarah Palin reenergizing the Republican ticket, Democrats everywhere are getting scared. Collins tells everyone to calm the heck down because there's plenty of time for swing-state voters (YAY OHIO!) to make a decision, and meanwhile, isn't it great that we didn't get swallowed by a black hole yet?

Misery Loves Democrats

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[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Yes, sadly that was real. Bush and Co tried to paint Kerry as generally "French-like" which is naturally a bad, bad thing. Did you hear about all that "Freedom fries" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries) nonsense when France didn't want to support the invasion of Iraq? So saying Kerry was French meant he was cowardly and talked funny. One of them instead of one of us.

The French politely pointed out that French fries are from Belgium...

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Yeah, I heard all about the freedom fries thing. Much LOL'ing was had over here about the whole concept (we've got centuries of hating the French on you, so we get the resentment of the attitude, but picking FOOD to get them back? talk about dumb).

The French politely pointed out that French fries are from Belgium...

*snark* Yeah, that sounds like them.

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I also wanted to grab your government and say, "You know that you guys won the War of Independence with the help of the FRENCH, right? I just wanted to be sure, since you go on about the revolution so much..."

(I know you're aware of that. But it seems a lot of people aren't.)

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Oh, you've totally got more history of French bitterness, no question. Historically France has been a US ally, always good for helping us win revolutions (against people they didn't like) and selling us land dirt cheap.

Of course, that was part of the problem. Bush wanted to start a war and got all upset that Chirac refused to be his bitch. Clearly he didn't understand that France is supposed to have our back, even when we're hunting non-existent WMDs!!

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Chirac refused to be anyone's bitch, and THAT is why London got the 2012 Olympics and Paris didn't. Because say what you want about Tony Blair (and I could say a lot), he knew how to be charming.