Really, I do. It’s a wonderful country, with a great many historic attractions, and the people are much nicer than myth would suggest.
I just don’t want to conduct domestic and economic policy in the United States in the same way that the French conduct domestic and economic policy in France. Neither does Veronique de Rugy:
At the end of his joint press conference yesterday with Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, President Obama stunned the audience by sounding out the word “Spass-seee-boh” — his “first official Russian word” uttered in public. Can’t you just feel the multiculturalism oozing from the White House, and the international feeling toward America warming before your very eyes (even faster than our endangered globe)?
“I am also learning the Russian language,” Obama continued, “but President Medvedev knows English better than I know Russian.” It’s a good thing President Obama is so forgiving of, well, himself; otherwise, he might have been embarrassed at his ignorance of foreign language, and inability to do anything other than sound out the term for “Thank You” when visiting with a foreign national.
Because, you know, that’s what those damn embarrassing Americans do — and it embarrasses Obama to no end that this is the case:
President Obama has finally learned, and successfully pronounced, a foreign word. Now hurry the hell up and learn Spanish, you nekulturny American rubes.
