[zerojunkie]

We give a shit about a popularity contest with the rest of the world, why? I thought Jacques Chirac was your archetypal spineless, two-faced Frenchman. I doubt anyone in France gave a shit what I thought about him though, because he represented the views of his constituency. It's stupid to hound on McCain for a geographical gaff when he was spot on about the issue. Russia is bullying their former satellite states for cozying up to the west and exercising their autonomy. That fact is probably missed by half the people here who wanna get their panties in a twist about him making another gaff. Have you heard anything coming close to that kind of detail from Obama's camp? Hell no, all you hear is foreign policy pillow talk, he doesn't understand the intricacies nearly as well as McCain does.