This is the way NBC covers the President's trip to France:
“America came to save Europe in World War I, so we owe them this,” said Jean-Pierre Tourne, a teacher who was waiting for his friend outside the Louxor cinema in the northern Paris neighborhood of Barbes-Rochechouart. “We don’t understand why the Americans elected him, but he’s the U.S. President now,” he added.
Don't worry. NBC doesn't understand either. By the way, we also came to save Europe in World War II, but who's counting? Let us know if you need us again. We're always ready to help, whether you understand us or not.
“I understand why as president he’s invited,” said [Louis Marcodini, a 19-year-old history student at University of the Sorbonne], who was sitting on the banks of Canal St. Martin in Paris’s hip 10th arrondissement. “Symbolically it’s important. We have to respect history. But as an individual, as a man, he is not wanted here. He is not in our hearts.”...
"He's not welcome here. You're in working class Paris now. He'll be at the Élysée, at the Eiffel Tower, he's not going to come here," said Yacine Mac, who was standing outside the Barbes-Rochechouart metro station, a predominately north-African neighborhood.
Well, Mr. Mac, you might be interested to know that in America, he's not welcome among the elite, and it's the working class places where he held the rallies and spoke to the people who bonded with him and made him President.
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Based on the dems/obamacare passage timeline, we are just over 40% of the time allowed.
Another 8 months to go!
Thank you dems for your "efficiency" in setting the standard!
In other news, Paul Begala is all rootin' and tootin' ready to suit up and take on those Russkies!
So we've got that going for us, which is nice.
There is an old Joke: Why did French Tanks have five gears?
Answer: One forward and four for reverse.
Another one, Where do Frenchmen hide their wallet?
Answer: under the soap.
Okay, here's another.
Why did the French plant trees along the Champs Elysees?
So the Germans would never have to march n the sun.
From a combat effectiveness point of view, I never met a Frenchman yet that I wouldn't trade for 200 lbs of JP5.
So what's French for "naive little 19-year-old loser"?
Used French guns. Never fired and only dropped once
The "Resistance" in France was mostly a post war. myth. What there was of it that was real was mostly communist.
I read a book a month or so ago, titled, "D-Day Through German Eyes," in which German soldiers had been interviewed before D Day and were then interviewed again (those that survived) about six years later.
It's quite interesting and one thing that sort of stood out was how angry the Germans were at French civilians who suddenly turned on them when the Allies showed up. They go along fine before. No doubt some sour grapes but you do wonder.
It does make you wonder.
No one reads you either, Darrell. I can guarantee it. No one reads anyone whose avatar practically screams how out of place they feel outside of the 1950s.
Which is good, since you have nothing to say.
Scat.
Perfect.
French jokes notwithstanding, most Americans like France, and Europe, in general. As a place to visit, experience. They want to experience the (perhaps stereotypical) culture. These are working class people.
The media is attempting to show the trump supporters that the thing they like hates the other thing they like. A message to put doubt in their mind, and sway the moderate trump supporter. A kind of peer pressure (although it isn't that; I'm sure there's a word for it).
If 97% of people think a certain way, then anyone who doesn't think that way is 'obviously' wrong. The democrats, the left, the media truly believe in the collective. I don't know how they can reconcile that with the message of diversity.
French jokes notwithstanding, most Americans like France
I wouldn't bet big on that one.
I was just in Greece for 2 weeks. I did not hear one negative thing about Trump while I was there. Lots of people had relatives who moved to the US for economic reasons and people were really worried. The young lady who waited on us at breakfast at our hotel had a certificate from the University of Michigan for completing a rigorous online English course. We told her she was a Wolverine. When I told a Greek immigrant retiree I know (he owned our little neighborhood grocery store) about my trip to Greece and how warm and kind the Greek people were, he said "Everyone is unemployed! It's because it's a socialist country!" He and his wife go there once a year. I guess it's not France, but it's Europe.
It's also National Nude Day. No kidding. Maybe Mrs. Trump can combine the two celebrations by posing as "Liberty" in a recreation of my favorite painting, Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People."
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