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BookishLookish
01/02/09

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I have a lot of rachmones for the French. They are really past their influential peak--culturally, politically, what have you--and the 21st century is going to be very rough on them.

Still, merci pour Chanel No. 19 et YSL Touche Eclat. I would be a pretty beat-up-looking and -smelling li'l juive Americaine without 'em.
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eatsshootsleaves
01/02/09

@BookishLookish: Somehow Nicholas Sarkozy, a president who once called a heckler a "poor cunt," has more clout in global affairs right now than literally any other Western leader. I have no idea how it happened, but they are like the most powerful country in the world until January 20th. Rather than being a country in decline, I think they're the new U.K.
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gawkimo
01/02/09

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I love the French, but I can't held but suspect that their uncharacteristically irrational collective hard-on for Barack Obama must have its roots in their admiration of jazz music, or maybe they've been eating too many Royales with Cheeze and now their view of race is now as superficial as ours.
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ShanghaiLil
01/02/09

@gawkimo: Are you suggesting that the French attitude towards race was somehow previously sophisticated? They've been doing this Obama thing since the days of Josephine Baker. "Ah, those exotic negroes! So charming!" I mean, sure, it's better than lynching, but not, I think, more sophisticated.
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Kid Twist
01/02/09

@gawkimo: Meanwhile, I think there are exactly zero minority elected officials in France, so yeah, condescending only begins to describe this.
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crotchety
01/02/09

@Kid_Twist: Oh, precisely. When they elect a brownish person of Algerian descent then they can pat us on the head all they want.

But this may not be about race, it may be that they'd given up on us ever electing anyone with any sense after Bush. Wouldn't Sarah Palin have looked like the next step in that "progression" if you were watching from overseas? Can't blame 'em, I guess. Still annoys me.
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gawkimo
01/02/09

@ShanghaiLil: Hmmm, I guess you do have a point there. By "uncharacteristically," I mean I haven't heard the characteristic dissenting intellectuals in France who would take a contrary stance from the status quo (like, for instance, how Obama is going to turn out to be just another Hawkish Clintonite NeoLiberal despite his black father, yaddah yaddah). But come to think of it, I think you're right: the French aren't color blind; they're blinded by color. Ooooooold Maaaaaaan Riveeeeeer! Keeeeeeeeps Ooooooon . . . OK I'll quit.
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gawkimo
01/02/09

@crotchety: No, I'm pretty sure it's about race. I mean, yeah, they hate Bush and all, but this love-in for Obama is totally about the fact that he's the son of a single white mo. . . er, I mean that he's black. Do you really think they'd have a collective boner for Joe Biden? Who doesn't, right?
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Mediahohoho
01/02/09

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So...Publicis has no bank, remortgage or credit card accounts? Smart. Also, probably not true.
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ihateyourescalade
01/02/09

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I'm not sure why you're picking on this guy. What part of what he said here isn't true?
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bigleggedwoman
01/02/09

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Oh, and I am thrilled that we are officially smart again, should mention that.
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bigleggedwoman
01/02/09

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I would like to see the entire picture from which this was cropped. Because I think he is grabbing some guy's derriere or something.
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Weegee's bored
01/02/09

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This is what Blagojavitch will look like in 20 years.
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ADismalScience
01/02/09

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We told people that junk was triple-A all the time! That's why Americans own most of the nice parts of France now and the French are stuck glumly eating froglegs in the accursed countryside.
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katastic
01/02/09

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"French"? I believe you mean he's Freedomese.

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bringmemyTofu
01/02/09

@katastic: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wow, the first post of 09 was a real winner.
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bringmemyTofu
01/02/09

@bringmemyTofurkey: And I meant my post, not yours Hamilton.

I'll get this whole commeting thing down one of these days.
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