Amazing. It's the 21st century, and there are European trying to make demons and look for the Jews hiding under their beds. Between that, and your assumption about Americans not knowing about the Ike quote that every American already knows says a lot. You:

- want an authoritarian leader
- think Jews run the world from behind a curtain
- take agit-prop for face value
- think that American males even pay attention to the pop-cultural chatter in France and have a thing for Carla Bruni
- and think that anyone large number of people outside of Europe and francophone Africa pay any sort of attention to France and its' population's inflated self-image
- think American soldiers are there for the cultural stimulation of passive, middle age Europeans

Alas, a nation speaks! Last week, it was "we were all Irish", a few years ago it was "we are all American", and there were a few other "we are all (something else)" in between. I've come to find that that's a code phrase for "we're about to tell you how much we take pleasure in collectively abusing you on television, radio, magazaines, newprint, and in everyday life for another 30-40 years."

The fact that you can find one person out of 302 million to say something like that doesn't mean that that many American men all want her. To think otherwise is to get carried away. Look - things are not as singular and uniform in America. Culturally, it's a continent, not an island.

As for some notion about people being sorted into convenient camps of tangible opposites - Muslims, Jews, etc., I would attribute that to the view of the outsiders from them - the "mainstream" French looking at them the way they always have: [b]in judgmental fashion from a distance[/b]. For all of their singing of "bleu-blanc-beur", relations are about 20 years behind those you find in the US.

Just look at the way [url=http://www.arte.tv/fr/histoire-societe/Freedom/2032304.html]Arte[/url] is mixing up all of those concepts right now in their "freedom/black power" series that I'm sure they think is timely with Obama running for office. He isn't even attached to black southern culture in any way - his father was an immigrant from Kenya. He's a lawyer who made it some way in sleazy Chicago politics, and spent 2 years in the senate, and all of a sudden, the Arte types in Europe think that this is an opportunity to serve up an incoherent melange of Malcolm X, Jazz, the Black Panthers, and M. L. King (who was a [url=http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-Why%20MLK%20was%20a%20Republican]republican[/url]).

The sad continental "intelligentsia's" concern, and their very understanding of the US or any other culture for that matter is skin-deep and fake. For all of this pretense, lesson-giving, and lecturing others, they seem to know very little about the world.

That same silly, unserious, and self-serving world view can't help but think all American men are hot for Carla Bruni. [i]How could we, when we're supposedly the people who can't France is on a map?[/i]

Don't you find it curious that more than even a handful of "les Amerloques" aren't equally obsessed with finding any flaw, any apparent act of stupidity in the manner that so many Europeans seem to be [url=http://www.dailymotion.com/videos/relevance/search/amerloques]fixated on[/url]? Don't you think there's something tribal, deeply foolish, and sad when so many people in many parts of Europe try to find the silly acts of individual Americans as somehow being the essense of >300 million people? At the same time trying to congratulate themselves [url=http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/search?q=Darfur]about their humanity[/url] and trying to tell themselves that they are the very essense of human rights?

As for me playing the "jongleur" - all I'm doing is repeating to you what you say. It's not playing the devil's advocate, it's a display of ignorance.

The reviews are mixed, actually:

[i]"I like that. she is a FLIF to be sure. but i would definitely cover the ole’ willy though[/i]
Covering the 'ol willie means that he would wear a preservatif to protect himself from disease.

[i]The very first first lady that most would like to see nude, and remarkably not a hard task to accomplish.[/i]
The remarkably easy task, is that she would get naked.

[i]I don’t know any girls that aren’t hotter than a 2 dollar… 30 lovers! She must have cooties by now.[/i]
"ccoties" is a child's reference to an imaginary disease.

[i]She is as fine as a 67 GTO but well used!!!!!"....[/i]
Well used means used. The more vulgar comparison is to being "looser than a golf bag"

Am I to understand that if ONE President with a 6 year term says a few nice things about the US, all of the tactical undermining, verbal and cultural abuse by the public, obsessive hatred - that all of that should just be forgotten?

How is it that we live in a world where opinions are taken to be more important than actions? As we've noted earlier, Americans are just revieved that we get a pause from the the decades old presistent and inherent cultural demonization.
We went over this when "patriotic-America" David prattled on about how very distateful it was that there were Americans who were happy about Merkel's election. As if he would have ever noted the same thing if there was an American anywhere who noted the same if Gerhard Schroeder or Ségolène Royal had won.

They appreciate Sarkozy for his open desire to deflate the drama from anti-americanism in France (becuase it's grown into a obsessive hateful distraction burdening the French, more than having an effect on America).

But to try to sneer at it as a sort of infatuation? Stop stroking your egos.

If you want a new de Gaulle, then why do you accept unquestioningly every [i]fantasme gauchiste[/i] opinion piece you see as fact?