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WTR wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

WTR wrote:

JALLEN wrote:He is openly gay.[1] His long-time partner is photographer Pascal Blondeau.[1] Araud supports right of same-sex marriage, but does not want to get married.[1]

What is your point?

Maybe his point is that he doesn't love his partner enough to want to defend him with a firearm in the home, if it comes to that. Maybe if his partner would agree to marry him, he might feel differently and get a gun.

Maybe he has no point.

JALLEN wrote:You doubtless saw that I quoted from the Wikipedia article about the Ambassador's education, his most recent offices held and his personal life.

That is what I would include in a post about anyone, essential details that show a person's background, history, salient facts about personal life. If the "personal life" revealed he was married and had 3 kids, I would have either quoted or summarized that. Similarly I would have mentioned his religion, were it included as Wikipedia bios often do.

WTR wrote:

JALLEN wrote:He is openly gay.[1] His long-time partner is photographer Pascal Blondeau.[1] Araud supports right of same-sex marriage, but does not want to get married.[1]

What is your point?

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

JALLEN wrote:Before you pop off like that, recall how many times we have been embarrassed by idiotic sounding statements said, or nowadays tweeted, by Americans, or slightly worse, people claiming to be Texans.

He is no different really, than most of the US elite, except his French might be better than John Kerry, who fought in Vietnam Nam. Thinking of all the stupid things Kerry has said makes you wake up screaming in the middle of the night.

At least Araud had the presence of mind to realize how dumb a thing it was to say and delete it.

One can and should attack absurd statements that have a negative impact on personal freedom, regardless of the source. Araud didn't delete his tweet because he realized it was wrong, but, in his words, "it was of no use." Then he reaffirmed his position and went on to say that citizens defending themselves with their own guns only happens in Hollywood. That's not an opinion, that a blatant lie. As an Ambassador, he must be at least reasonably educated. If he's going to try to defend his country's laws that create unarmed, defenseless victims by making a statement about private ownership of guns for self-defense, then he should at least check the facts in America. If he did, then he knows his statement was false and he's a lair. If he didn't, then he's willfully ignorant of a subject on which he is speaking and that too is a liar. I strongly suspect the former.

BTW, I am half French so I can pick on them as much as I like.

Chas.