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- Chooxo, on 04/01/2009, -1/+46Fine, but they'd better "storm" out like they promised.
I want papers hurled off desks. - heaintheavy, on 04/01/2009, -0/+41If I had Carla Bruni waiting in bed for me I would find any excuse to get out of a meeting, too.
- Elohir, on 04/01/2009, -4/+31Hang on, so France are yellow, lilly livered, cowardly, cheese eating surrender monkeys but when they stand up to us, we slag them off for it.
Nice. - ChromaVita, on 04/01/2009, -1/+23One does not simply walk out of Mordor.
- sergiobdt, on 04/01/2009, -3/+24It is very easy to mock the french, when they stand for a better financial regulation, and put political pressure for it.
The US put the world in the current mess. Fully arrogant, they want to impose "their" solution to the crisis: put more and more bailout money, and avoid any kind of better regulation of the system. It was a credit crisis, let's put more debt at it to hide it under the carpet...
We heard the same anti-french when Bush lied to all americans in the Iraqi war, and the french condemn the lying at the UN. - urthwalker, on 04/01/2009, -5/+22Typical France?? Maybe. But if this article is the only judge, we'll never know since this asinine journalist never bothered to even MENTION what Sarkozy's concerns were! Sure, the man is an ass and I disagree with a great deal of what he says, but he is an ass with a mission - to temper Frances top-heavy welfare and labor system with common-sense economic liberalism. In this regard, the U.S. should be kissing his ass.
The U.S. (and their UK puppets) are just pissed that Sarkozy seems to know the point when liberalism becomes neo-liberalism - this almost religious fervor of the 'invisible hand's' agency in removing all regulatory impediments to the global free-market. In other words, the very same policies that Bush pushed for eight years and got us into this nightmare in the first place. France may piss us off sometimes (e.g. the Iraq invasion) but somehow they always seem to do so when (correctly) pointing out how wrong we are. Shame on us for vilifying them in the process!
And as the G-20 sits on high and decides what to do about those pooooor savage countries, Sarkozy wants them to stop for a minute and consider that the IMF and World Bank are doing the exact same thing to the developing world that Bush did in the U.S. (Wolfowitz, I'm talking to you!). For those pantheons of neoliberal zeal, plan B is simply plan A again, no matter how badly thy screw up recipient nations. I can't imagine anything more naive than flushing them with unlimited additional cash. - ChrisLondon, on 04/01/2009, -12/+28For once, I have to say that I agree with France. Nicolas Sarkozy is doing us all a favour on this one.
- SuperCujo, on 04/01/2009, -2/+17Says someone from the US... hahahah
- Miff, on 04/01/2009, -23/+36Typical France.
- rupaw, on 04/01/2009, -10/+22*Sigh* ... politicians like Sarkozy and Berlusconi are an embarrassment for Europe!
- inactive, on 04/01/2009, -0/+11...Apart from the fact that it's the 5/6th biggest economy in the world?
- thefirelane, on 04/01/2009, -4/+15This will severely affect the catering, but not much else.
- tavallai, on 04/01/2009, -5/+16Said this on another site...
Sarkozy's just playing what will most certainly be an ineffectual summit to beat his chest for the domestic audience. After kowtowing to NATO despite most of France being against any such move, he needs to score some cheap political points on the homefront.
Much like barring execs of bailed out French companies from being granted stock options (sure, deny them a performance-based means of pay...) it's a disingenuous response to quell populist outcry.
While he's got a point in not wanting the buffoons who engineered the financial collapse be the ones to clean it up, Sarko himself was recently buddy buddy with Mexico's Roberto Hernandez Ramirez - who is not just a drug traficker, but also sits on the board of Citibank AND is an advisor to the Federal Reserve.
Connect the dots, la la la la... - inactive, on 04/01/2009, -0/+11Apart from the fact that your ancestors probably came almost exclusively from Europe.
- inactive, on 04/01/2009, -0/+11wat
London is one of the financial capitals of the world, and was for many years the capital of the world's eminent superpower.
Not "somewhere in the middle of Europe", you pillock. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 04/01/2009, -0/+10Wow, such wit and originality. Do go on. Do you do stand-up or anything? You totally should.
- Drahkar, on 04/01/2009, -2/+11In a Cartman voice: 'Screw you guys! I'm going home!'
- MrChunks, on 04/01/2009, -0/+9I have absolutely no idea of what you just wrote there. Seriously, no idea at all. You may as well have made your comment in Yiddish.
- christoast, on 04/01/2009, -1/+8Wrong delivery
Wrong timing
Wrong use of "in b4" - Theuderic, on 04/01/2009, -1/+7Seems there's little to debate on this issue. If they could have somehow not mentioned France in the article, we'd all be beating our chests, throwing chairs around the room and insulting each other's lineage. Funny how France always seems to unify the rest of the 'normal' world.
- rif42, on 04/01/2009, -0/+5You obviously did not read the article. Go back start from square one again.
- 3tcp, on 04/01/2009, -4/+9Walking out is not the same as standing up.
- SteelChicken, on 04/01/2009, -3/+8Pouting and taking your toys home like a child is not standing up.
- GeorgeStone2, on 04/01/2009, -3/+7Better than launching all your toys at someone when you don't get your way (America)..
- MrChunks, on 04/01/2009, -0/+4Someone who puts commas where there should be apostrophes.
- depro9, on 04/01/2009, -0/+4live stream from the g20 protest uk
http://www.streamick.com/asx2/skynews.asx - inajeep, on 04/01/2009, -3/+7How is storming out in a huff helpful?
- Bhima, on 04/01/2009, -0/+4Berlusconi is worse
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 04/01/2009, -0/+4Yeah, the French Revolution. What was that about? Seems like a bunch of ***** if you ask me. Any country not lead by a conquesting tyrant is headed backwards. /s
- mabsark, on 04/01/2009, -2/+5Every one loves to hate the french. The animosity between Britain and France is understandable, we've been enemies for most of our history. I guess we exported it to our colonies as well.
I don't understand why Americans hate the French, though. If it wasn't for them, you probably wouldn't be Americans, you'd still be British. Actually, that's a pretty damn good reason to hate them. - inactive, on 04/01/2009, -1/+4OY VEY
- bigtoes, on 04/01/2009, -3/+6Its because they are mean to us when we go there . Even my French pilot wouldn't help me find customs in Paris. Jealous ? American women have the biggest breasts in the entire galaxy . Every day is just like Baywatch . If anyone is jealous its you .
- turbomofo, on 04/01/2009, -0/+3best comment ever!!!!
- TheUngod, on 04/01/2009, -2/+5Walking away from a problem is not standing up for anything. Walking away when you don't get your way is a 5 year olds response to problems.
- inactive, on 04/01/2009, -1/+4Wouldn't it be nice if there were none of these meetings & people would work on problems within their own countries... this world would be a much better place!
- groberts1980, on 04/01/2009, -1/+4You beat me to it. I actually came to the comment thread to type this.
- enrq, on 04/02/2009, -0/+2why not G1? why H?
- inactive, on 04/01/2009, -2/+4Maybe because the French are asses, they ignored Woodrow Wilson's Versailles peace proposals, demanded the US leave France literally within weeks after liberating them in '44, kicked NATO soldiers out of France yet still want the benefits of it, and they dragged us into their mess in Indochina, fled and then called us babykillers for staying. Finally, they are responsible for most of the mess America is dealing with in the mideast when they went at it with the crayons drawing its borders in 1918.
Not to mention they are generally just rude to tourists as is. - eleraama, on 04/02/2009, -1/+2"When have they ever made a stand and not surrendered or lost.."
Umm, the War for American Independence? - mabsark, on 04/01/2009, -0/+1G20, is that some new pop group or something?
- koretico, on 04/01/2009, -1/+2Wow... Compared to what was said on digg few years ago, this is really kind from you guys.
Come on dude, we haven't change so much...
Wait, yes,, we did! we changed the former president for a new one that would have definitly go bombing Iraq with you. - harvardstud2009, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1Extremely interesting video interview with philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy on the love-hate relationship between America and France and its affect on Americans' perception of Barack Obama:
http://bigthink.com/topics/foreign-policy/ideas/be ...
More from Bernard-Henri Lévy on Sarkozy:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/bernard-henri-levy-on-ni ... - mabsark, on 04/01/2009, -0/+1And he would've got away with it as well if it weren't for those pesky shopkeepers.
- cassadamius, on 04/01/2009, -2/+3but without France we can't form the Super 5 Voltron to save the world when Conficker C activates the Hadron Collider!
- GeorgeStone2, on 04/01/2009, -1/+2HAhahahha
- ByteMeAHole, on 04/01/2009, -2/+3So France is going to stamp its widdle foot and pout all the way home... If it doesn't get its way...
- Bhima, on 04/01/2009, -5/+6This latest Hate France kick comes from France not going along with invading and occupying Iraq... and obviously the French were wrong on that because Iraq was such a ***** success.
Also when Regan decided to bomb the snot out of Libya, most of Europe denied the US overflight and refueling permission. France took the brunt of that too... their embassy was "accidentally" bombed.
A secondary thing is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-cultural tenancies of the right... which France also gets more than there fair share of. My theory is that they hating France anyway so hating them for that other stuff was easy that figuring out the name of another European country -
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