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The Good News According to Barack

7.29.08 @ 12:01AM

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Emma Elliott's excellent article reads like a proposal for a TV sitcom or a "B" movie. Well done, Ms. Elliott!

Here are some more deservedly irreverent thoughts on Obama's Wundertur:
The Threefold Path to Insincerity.

1. Schedule visit to U.S. military hospital.

2. Learn that hospital rules prohibit media circuses.

3. Cancel visit to U.S. military hospital.

Obama tells Berliners this about Afghanistan, "We have too much at stake to turn back now," but fails to see that it applies also to Iraq, where there is even more at stake, and even more of our investment in money and lives to throw away under his cut-and-run proposal.

Did anyone hear Monsieur Obama say a single word in French while he was there? Other than merci beaucoup? If that?

Any other language? No? Danke.

He did say that Sarkozy "...seems to have a good nose for how things play out." [Freudian slip ignored (or missed) by the Adorabamamedia.]

When you read all of the exaggeratedly glowing things Sarkozy said about Obama, surely you must remember Mark Twain's blessed line about the French language -- "It is impossible to tell the truth in French."

Once again, Obama showed his exemption from the facts of history when he said that Sarkozy "...'reminded Americans of the long tradition of friendship' between the two countries that dates back to French support for American revolutionaries in the 18th century." Huh? [double-take] HUH?

I have a book for him to read on that subject -- Our Oldest Enemy, A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France, by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky. Doubleday 2004.

On the other hand, I guess not. It's probably not on his iPod.
-- A. C. Santore

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Re: Jonathon M. Seidl's A Second Act in Jersey City:

Bret Schundler was -- and still is -- a breath of political fresh air in a New Jersey, certainly one of the most corrupt states in the union.

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