BS: Condi wows the French!

Subject: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: dianavan
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:25 AM

Go figure! The French called her courageous and said she spoke with clarity and conviction. From all accounts, she was a big hit. I'm in shock but heh, they like Jerry Lewis, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:22 AM

They probably think she is a reincarnation of Josephine Baker;~)
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: Amos
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:27 AM

LOL! That's both funny and very insightful, Giok!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: darkriver
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:39 AM

You're right, Giok!

Maybe we should start a rumor that she's actually Algerian. That ought to stop the admiration....

Doug

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: M.Ted
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 01:02 PM

The French invented the language of diplomacy. When they say she spoke with "clarity", it means that her position is clearly ridiculous, when they say "conviction" it means that no one believes a word of it, and "courageous" means, given what she was going to say, she had a lot of nerve to show up in the first place.

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 01:24 PM

This Frenchman that invented the language of diplomacy, was his name Charles De Gaulle by any chance?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 01:30 PM

this is all good stuff

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:30 PM

When Condy Rice speaks, she has a habit of pausing to select words. With many public speakers, this could be construed as "thinking." With Rice, it sounds like she's thinking up a lie. I don't trust her as far as I could throw her.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: Amos
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:36 PM

THAT I would dearly love to measure.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: artbrooks
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:41 PM

Josephine Baker? (semi-nude...beware) Hah!! She should live so long!

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:47 PM

LOL, Art!

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: Cluin
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:52 PM

Damn! Giok beat me to it!

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: Chris Green
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:54 PM

Well, be fair. All they've had from the Anglo-Saxon world for a while is Bush and Blair. Someone vaguely articulate, if a tad to the right of Attila the Hun, must have come as a welcome change.


Actually, having just read that back, I've just described Charles de Gaulle. And Condi. And Powell. And Blair.


But not Bush. It's the vaguely articulate bit...

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: M.Ted
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 10:15 PM

Actually, I think that the diplomacy business was invented by Cardinal Richelieu--

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 10:32 PM

Ahhhhh, the French were impressed with her girlish figure and that's about it...

Tha't one thing that the French and Bush have in common...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Condi wows the French!
From: LadyJean
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 12:30 AM

ZUT!