Who is the President of France?
Well, I’d love to jump on the bandwagon to bash Obama, but the story isn’t exactly true. He was writing to Chirac not as President of France, but at the Chirac Foundation for Sustainable Development and Cultural Dialogue, which does international projects to help combat poverty, etc. This goes to what I tell left-wingers all the time – whenever a story sounds too good for your side, check the facts, check the source. This is one of those stories that raised red flags for me, so I looked for the source. Luckily, I am still fluent in French – it’s in Le Figaro, in the “rumors” section. The comments on it (and they’re just as vigorous about politics as here) finally found the truth – it was a response addressed to Chirac at his foundation. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize Obama. This, apparently, isn’t one of them.
Oh, ze bouffoon turns out to be you! You fell for an internet rumor specifically designed to make our president look bad. Perhaps you should do a little more research before expressing your faux outrage for paragraphs at a time. http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2…
