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Posted by BooMan | Jun 5, 2009 | 6 |

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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.

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  1. Oui
    Oui on June 5, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    .
    Open Threat? Shoe throwing is becoming fashionable.

    "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

  2. Oui
    Oui on June 5, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    .

    Barack and Michelle Obama decline dinner in Paris with the Sarkozys

    “Sarkozy has pulled off a double hit: insulting Queen Elizabeth and exasperating Obama,” the weekly Canard Enchaîné said on Wednesday.

    Mr Obama’s irritation with his French counterpart began when Mr Sarkozy tried to grab the limelight at the G20 summit in London in April and talked condescendingly of the US President in private. Mr Sarkozy told colleagues that he found Mr Obama to be inexperienced and unbriefed, especially on climate change. Mr Obama hit back last month, telling a visiting French minister: “Please tell Nicolas that I shall do my homework, and in two months I’ll know all about climate change.”

    I find it rather tasteless of the French president to invite the Obama’s for an abundant dinner in Paris. Today president Obama visited Buchenwald concentration camp, where an estimated 56,000 people perished. The Times: “Most were Jews — worked to death, shot or hanged by Nazi guards.”
    [Buchenwald was not an extermination camp for Jews – Oui]

    Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp

    "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

    • nonynony
      nonynony on June 5, 2009 at 4:06 pm

      Now that Bush is out of office, is Sarkozy the world’s most embarrassing elected head of government, or is there someone more juvenile and boorish that stands in front of him?  Off-hand, I can’t think of one.

      • Oui
        Oui on June 5, 2009 at 4:26 pm

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        Either Berlusconi (never boorish) or Brown (British suspense).

        "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

        • esquimaux
          esquimaux on June 5, 2009 at 5:38 pm

          you got there first.

          Brown is only inadequate, Berlusconi is a crook.

  3. boran2
    boran2 on June 5, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    That’s in the strike zone, right?

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