Chirac-is that your best?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,1521483,00.html
Dredge posted this yesterday.
You know a country is not doing well when their leader thinks a good insult is to make fun of a superior country's food. Seriously, Chirac sounds like a kindergartener-or a disenfrachised, quickly loosing respect, frustrated, and spoiled leader...oh wait. Heh. That's what he is.......Is he going to start telling us that no one in the U. S. knows haute couture like he does???? Ouch!Hello!!!
And take this Chirac!
Today, it was announced that London will host the 2012 Olympics. I'm sure it will be a great boon to the English economy. I bear no hard feelings over New York's loss-we just had the games in Utah not too long ago.....here is a blog on it.
http://www.sluggerotoole.com/archives/2005/07/2012_olympic_ga.php
And Dredge has pictures up today-on July 6, 2005.
http://www.drudgereport.com/

Oooh! And today is International Kissing Day! Check out the link. I celebrated by waking up to a series of kisses from my uber cute schnauzer pup. It's better than an alarm clock!
http://bamber.blogspot.com/2005/07/today-is-international-kissing-day.html
Full Article On Chirac:
Chirac's reheated food jokes bring Blair to the boil Patrick BarkhamTuesday July 5, 2005The Guardian Take one unpopular president, a brace of struggling statesmen and a couple of global summits. Heat up a hoary national stereotype, leaven with wit, sit back and watch "les rosbifs" simmer.
Jacques Chirac stirred the pot at a meeting in Russia on Sunday when he joked to Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schröder that the British could not be trusted and worse food was only found in Finland.
The French president declared that the only thing the British have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease, the French daily Libération reported.
Mr Chirac then reportedly said: "You can't trust people who cook as badly as that. After Finland, it's the country with the worst food."
His jibes may have amused Mr Putin and Mr Schröder, but they are unlikely to have pleased members of the Paris 2012 bid team lobbying the International Olympic Committee in Singapore. Mr Chirac's absence while Tony Blair has been working on London's behalf has been noted, but Paris officials have excused it by insisting that the president would arrive in time for the final presentation on Wednesday, which Mr Blair will miss.
As a Michelin-starred Scottish chef put the final touches to his French-inspired menu for G8 leaders at Gleneagles, Mr Chirac recalled how the former Nato secretary general George Robertson, a Scot, once insisted he try a Scottish speciality, believed to be haggis.
"That's where our problems with Nato come from," he said.
The chef advising on the menu, Andrew Fairlie, who trained under Michel Guérard in France, describes his cooking as "unashamedly French but with a Scottish twist".
French aides said the quotes attributed to Mr Chirac did not "reflect the tone or the content" of the meeting in Russia. But Mr Blair made what appeared to be a reference to Mr Chirac's outburst when asked if Gleneagles would be an anticlimax after Singapore.
"I won't say the G8 summit would be an anticlimax to it because that would be undiplomatic and I know when I go there I will be in the presence of very diplomatic people," he said.
British chefs were less restrained. "Bollocks," said Antony Worrall Thompson. "Chirac doesn't get out enough.
"Our beef is the best in the world ... All the langoustines they eat are Scottish. So I'd serve him langoustines followed by good Aberdeen Angus beef and then give him a heart attack with some sticky toffee pudding."
Meanwhile Egon Ronay, the food critic, said: "A man full of bile is not fit to pronounce on food."
And today German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said he was looking forward to a "decent steak" at this week's G8 summit in Scotland.
Schroeder refused to discuss Chirac's reported remarks at a news conference. "No word from me on these secret talks," the chancellor said.
He also responded cautiously when asked whether he was looking forward to the food at the G8 summit, which opens Wednesday in Gleneagles, Scotland.
"I'm no fan of salmon, and I hope I will get a decent steak - I'm sure I will get one," a smiling Schroeder said. "Beyond that, I don't know English - or Scottish - cuisine well enough that I could really talk as an expert."