Thread: So whats so wrong with being able to speak French?

To the OP, I don't think I'm oversimplifying it too much in thinking that one of his goals in saying that is just to try to paint him as a bit of a sissy. No offense to our French friends, but that's the stereotype in the States, and I'm sure that comes as no surprise. Sometimes the basest implications can be the strongest. No one wants a sissy leading the country!

Also, I think "anti-intellectual" is the wrong term. Anti-European, sure. Anti-elitism, yes. There may be fine lines between these concepts (especially for our European members) but I think they're discernible lines nonetheless.

For example, one of the complaints lodged against Obama is that he at times seems more interested in how the rest of the world views us than many of us really care. Many Americans, including myself, don't see the European system as something to emulate. To many, Obama's seeming to be constantly seeking the rest of the world's approval doesn't jive well with our western, cowboyish, rugged-individualist foundation. He could certainly be playing to that sentiment.

Plus, likening your opponent to John Kerry in any manner is a pretty good tactic.

Originally Posted by Bruno

I've heard from other people that she did a good Job in Alaska, but after the general election she just didn't fit anymore.
People didn't go after her because of going after democrats. They went after her because she went into the general election unprepared and unwilling to learn.
After the election, even the republicans went after her so don't pin this just on democrats.

Read my post again. The Republicans went after her before the Democrats. She got the corrupt Republicans booted. I read her book, so I heard the media spin and her side of the story.

Originally Posted by gugi

About her half-term governorship that she didn't quit, I can't see much positive. She shifted the state revenue towards energy, i.e. moving her state more towards Saudi Arabia, and away from Silicon Valley. The state still can't make it on its own and year after year is continuing to be bailed out by the rest of the country, yet when the oil prices got higher she used the extra revenue to cut a paycheck to everybody in the state.

The oil companies were sitting on vast oil reserves and refused to drill for it. It's easier to just buy from the middle east. She told them to drill or she was going to pull their contracts and give them to other oil companies. Oil fought her in court and lost. That's where the money came from that she gave to the citizens of Alaska.

Originally Posted by Bruno

There are about a billion muslims in the world, and only a teeny, tiny incredibly small fraction is actively trying to do bad things to other countries.

Islam is used as an excuse by people with a political agenda. the problem is the people with the agenda and the people trying to engage in terrorism.
It's a political problem, not a religious problem, in the same way that the crusades were not religious wars but political wars.

The problem with your argument is that while the vast majority of Muslims are not violent, neither will they condemn the ones that are. Yes the violent ones are a tiny minority, and yet 20 of them managed to kill 3000 Americans in an hour. This was their third attempt to bring those buildings down.

I know a Muslim that used to work with my wife. He thinks it's perfectly alright for Iran to build nukes. They are still celebrating 9/11 selling T-shirts with the burning building on them.

The non-violent ones are also a problem. As their numbers increase they attempt to force society to change to fit their religion by trying to get the court system to recognize Sharia law as they are trying to do in this country continuously and they are making headway. The "separation of Church and State" that the liberals are so proud of (even though the idea that this is in the Constitution is a lie) applies only to Christians.

How this thread makes me feel...


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