'French' Becomes a Dirty Word in U.S. Campaign

[Kellanved]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For centuries the very mention of France has conjured up images of elegance and sophistication but in an increasingly heated U.S. presidential campaign, "French" has become a dirty word.

Capitalizing on anti-French sentiment among some Americans following France's decision not to back the war in Iraq, some Republicans have repeatedly accused Democratic contender Sen. John Kerry of "looking French."

The conservative press has jumped on the bandwagon, spurred by an anonymous Bush adviser making the comparison to The New York Times. Wall Street Journal commentator James Taranto, for example, has many times referred to Kerry as a "haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat."

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President Bush and his campaign have not characterized Kerry in such a fashion publicly and the Bush campaign declined to comment. "Pas de commentaire," said spokesman Reed Dickens jokingly.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6616793


Edit: something strange happened to the subject.

[American Tragedy]

1. George Bush looks moronic

Those fucking Republican bigots denigrate an entire ethnicity, because the French government had the nerve to suggest that Anglo-American intelligence was less than adequate, and they weren't willing to risk their lives and treasure for it.

I'll bet it pisses the Republicans off even more that the French, and those of us who opposed this from the beginning, were also completely right.

[Child_Of_Isis]

2. But the republicans

will take the French's flu shots, I betcha!