No Longer Is It the Case, Thanks to You-Know-Who, That Foreign Allies of Bush's America Have to Fear… Looking at Themselves in the Mirror (!!)

I think that it is important for Europe to understand that even though I'm now President and George Bush is no longer President, al Qaeda is still a threat

Good thing to know, Mr. President (thanks for the info)…

Prior to his visit to Prague and to Ankara, the Apologizer-in-Chief had passed through Strasbourg, where his handlers (does he actually have any?!) couldn't even get the translation of "good afternoon" right (if Bon après-midi ever existed, it went out of fashion, oh, about a couple of centuries ago) and where — uh, oh, America — he said that he was jealous about [government-funded] high-speed rail and the nice trains here.

Devant les étudiants de Strasbourg, il a parlé d'Abou Ghraib, l'ancienne prison américaine en Irak, un nom qui ne revient pas souvent dans le discours public américain, en essayant de les convaincre qu'ils peuvent désormais se joindre aux Etats-Unis sans avoir peur de "se regarder dans la glace".

Thanks to Barack Obama, says… Barack Obama (in Strasbourg, as recounted by Corine Lesnes and in other Le Monde articles), foreigners such as Europeans need no longer be afraid to… look at themselves in the mirror.