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Bloody Europeans, doing things different to Americans. The cads.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 at 02:57:17 PM EST
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Oh please.  My point was never that it should do things like America.  DoDo brought up the US Senate, not me - but feel free to ignore that if it gets in the way of your righteous indignation...

My point was about the very confusing terminology.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 at 03:44:02 PM EST
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<shrug> We do it to annoy you.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 at 03:49:19 PM EST
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Why are you guys bringing up America? Honestly - I think it says a lot more about you than it does America.

I first noted the "EU President v. EU Presidency" problem while watching France 24.  It was on Deutsche Welle that I saw a programme about how most Europeans don't even understand the EU and are apathetic about it because they don't even know what it does.  It was on ET that I brought it up.  The example I used was from a Chinese news service.

It's pretty pathetic of you to dismiss what I say on the grounds of my nationality alone.  Jesus effing christ - you are better than that Colman.  And here I was just about to write a diary on Obama's atrocious foreign policy... Guess I wont - I don't want to be accused of American exceptionalism.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 at 04:07:34 PM EST
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