You should see how the French feel about them.

No, WE don't hate the French. YOU hate the French.

No, WE don't hate the French. YOU hate the French.

Come on now. We = "We Americans". I'm not sure if you include yourself in that group, but if you'd read the article, it was pretty clear:

The survey of six nations, carried out for the International Herald Tribune daily and France 24 TV station, said 44 percent of French people thought badly of themselves against 38 percent of U.S. respondents who had a negative view of the French.

That's right, real Americans don't hate the French. Out of those 38%, only 10% had a "very negative" view of the French people, which is is the only category that could possibly qualify as hatred. Those are the only 10% at the most who don't get it.

For that matter, only 4% of the French had a "very negative" view of their own people, so this whole chortle-item of the right blogosphere is an obnoxious distortion. What the poll really shows is that the French are dissatisfied with themselves. Well, better to be dissatisfied with yourself than to think that you're superior.

http://www.iht.com/pdfs/europe/f24-iht_april%2027th%20release.pdf

"Come on now. We = "We Americans"."

And we don't hate the French. A lot of Republicans seem to hate them, but then Republicans hate a lot of people.

"38 percent of U.S. respondents who had a negative view of the French."

Here in America, that's called a minority.

Of course Brian dose not hate the French, he is too busy hating Americans and himself.

I do not hate the French. Like a once great prizefighter who is now a drunken bum sleeping in his own excrement, it is a thing to pity and not to hate.

"Of course Brian dose not hate the French"

I know--free people don't hate each other.

"he is too busy hating Americans and himself."

Let's revisit that claim when you have some familiarity with either.

Republicans hate a lot of people.

Pot, let me introduce you to kettle.

This is a matter of semantics (sp?) Like I tell my children, hate is a word not to use because they don't know what it means. Brian doesn't HATE America, or even Bush. He's just frustrated and unhappy that things are not going the way he wants them to. True hatred is a frighteningly terrible thing, and the one place to view it is how radical elements of the Middle East view the West. That is unreasoning hatred, that should scare all Americans and the West in general. As for France, we don't hate them, we're generally amused by them and make tons of jokes about them. Just because polls say that even the French talk bad about their own society doesn't mean they HATE. Perspective.