{"id":4446,"date":"2009-03-23T07:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2009-03-23T16:58:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T21:58:51","slug":"perhaps-it-was-the-translation-from-arab-to-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4446","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps It Was The Translation From Arab To English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could you imagine what’d happen if George W. Bush had not only muffed the name of the president of another nation, but of France<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Well, you’d have to imagine it; it was the Obamessiah<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Obama sent a letter to the French president, and called him Jacques Chirac<\/strong>.Maybe Barack Obama was too busy running for the next-higher-office (which is his his one strength) to bother reading a newspaper or a magazine or even a book to discover that they held an election a couple of years ago and elected L\u2019Americain, Nicolas Sarkozy<\/strong>, as president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But it is <\/em>Obama, and not Bush, so…:<\/p>\n

The American media has ignored this faux pas. But the French have not. One does not need to read French to understand the point of the Le Monde cartoon as shown [in Don Surber’s piece; go check it out].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not just any nation, mind you, but a big, important one that is almost alone in Europe in upping <\/em>its commitments to international security<\/a>. The one that The One was supposed to help us in reaching out to.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Brian Jones tweets <\/a>“Sarkozy oughtta respond with a letter addressed to “President Carter.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE 2:\u00a0 Of course there’s\u00a0 an explanation.\u00a0 And it works.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course <\/em>Obama will take more care with the French than with, say, all of us gun-clinging Jeebus freaks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Could you imagine what’d happen if George W. Bush had not only muffed the name of the president of another nation, but of France? Well, you’d have to imagine it; it was the Obamessiah: Obama sent a letter to the French president, and called him Jacques Chirac.Maybe Barack Obama was too busy running for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}