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Listed below are comments made by Cracklite between Friday, 17th April 2009 and Friday, 27th November 2009.

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Franco-German power 1:42pm on 27 Nov 2009 Freeborn-John "but the UK is already part of a winning team at global-level, where the Franco-German alliance can never really be much more than 'a stick in the bicycle wheel' when it comes to influencing world-events"

What on earth are you mumbling about ?!!! Do, you actually believe that you exert any influence what so ever on the US ?!! Are you that arrogant and blind? If Iraq only proved one thing, it is the utter absence of influence of the UK on the US, and therefor on the world, much to the chagrin of it's european allies, the UK choose it's usual place, pretty much the one of a flee on a bear's tale! Sad but true.
Cameron shuns thorny EU 01:00am on 20 May 2009 "The great benefit of this is that once you have passed immigration control at Heathrow you can put your passport and enjoy the real freedom of being able to go about our business without being subject to the demand for "Ausweiss bitte" that those in Schenganland may hear at any moment."

Freeborn-John, have you actually set foot on continental Europe ?! Cause that's were I have been living for about forty year, and nobody there keeps there ID on them ! Damn, in forty years, no cop has ever ask for my ID, ever ! So please, travel before making the dumbest comments !
Sarko the Red 3:27pm on 15 May 2009 Bravo for that lengthy, although rather unconvincing reply, now, as Axel3175 was fair enough to point out, it does contain some truths, yes, there is jealousy from some Europeans, maybe especially from the French, but I'm not all that sure (I never ear my friends or my family members deny the merits of the US, quite the opposite actually), and yes, the US have achieved much in their short existence, but huge misconceptions remain in your post:

"in general and French in particular are always right because they are superior, and non Europeans in general and Americans in particular are always wrong because they are inferior."

I could tell you the exact same thing, but the other way around: "Americans feel superior to everybody and have almost no knowledge of our existence and have absolutely no interest in what we have to say...unless we are ready to follow and acquiesce without asking any question (is Iraq ringing any bell?)", and why is that ? Well all Europeans would agree, and not just the French, it's because Americans are arrogant and feel naturally superior.
I misconception as ridiculous as yours, wouldn't you agree ?

"America cannot live up to the version of Utopia they imagine an ideal society should have (a concept of utopia Americans reject) but it is obviously far superior to their own in every meaningful way."

Are you actually suggesting that the American social security system is superior to the french one ? Should we loosen up our laws on guns (wait you're right, we don't have enough shootouts in schools...) or should we adopt your judicial system, cause last time I checked, the number of innocent men (often poor and colored) waiting for their turn on death row was quite staggering.
No really, you should check your facts, there are quite a number of things that Europeans do way better than you, a simple fact, and no, it is not because they are superior to Americans, it's because no society does it better than any other society in every way, that's just grotesque, such a caricature and off course plain impossible.
Come to think of it, it's so...you !
Sarko the Red 1:31pm on 14 May 2009 "In the end MarcusAureliusII is a funny guy"

Plait-il ?!(sorry, cannot translate that, way too french)

"and what he writes make sense"

You mean that within his verbal diarrhea of hate, lies tiny bits of truth ? Well maybe, but I'm not going to plunge in the sceptic tank to find out !
Sarko the Red 09:59am on 14 May 2009 MarcusAureliusII: "France like every other country, society, culture is extremely complex. It is simplistic to sum it up in one trite phrase, I love it, I hate it."

Do you know the french expression: "C'est l'hôpital qui se fout de la charité!" ? Let me translate: "It's the (public) hospital poking fun at charity !" Meaning, as far as you're concerned,that you are in no position of telling anyone to acknowledge the complexity of this or that, since all you have ever done is criticise and grossly caricature, as all xenophobes do I might had, so please, don't fool yourself, because clearly we're not !
Sarko the Red 10:41pm on 13 May 2009 MarcusAurelius II, it is said that love and hate are often intertwined, the line between those two extreme feelings being quite thin and sometimes blurry, so...could it be that you're a closet francophile ?! A secret admire of Montesquieu, Proust, Hugo, Voltaire, Rousseau or...Lafayette ? Could you actually be smarter than you sound, could you ?!!!
French rebel with a cause 4:26pm on 12 May 2009 Marcus Aurelius II, please answer me this: where you actually born that obtuse, or is it something that you worked on and perfected over the years ?
EU split over racism conference 4:22pm on 20 Apr 2009 "Hitler's genocide while resisted by a small percentage in Europe"

What the hell are you blathering about ?! Are you by any chance suggesting that the countries who were not invaded by the Germans were opposed to the Shoah, whereas the countries who had the misfortune of being occupied were sympathizers of the extermination of the Jews ?! Is it what you're saying, because if it is, you should seriously consider going back to school, or at the very least, stop reading and watching Rupert Murdock Papers and tv channels, it's bad for you !
EU split over racism conference 4:09pm on 20 Apr 2009 "Much of the conflict between the United States of America and Europe is over America's unqualified support of Israel. That support will not change. Europeans should understand that they are becoming increasingly an irrelevant factor in the calculus of American foreign policy making. Remaining hostile to Israel will only accelerate that process."

Unconditional support, weather it be for Israel or The Palestinians, is a huge mistake, it can only produce a growing sense of frustration, injustice, and even racism, so the USA position makes no sense at all, and it has proven to be incredibly counter productive. I much prefer the traditional position of France, witch was much more balanced, it required efforts from both sides, to bad it was trashed by Sarko to please the Yanks.
Should EU confront fishermen? 11:27pm on 17 Apr 2009 " if everyone wants all 27 countries to adopt Schenegen then lets make sure the laws allow those who enter illegally can be quickly returned to their country of entry within the EU or their home country."

Easier said than done, we're talking about human beings here, not kettle !

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