Americans projecting

I remember when I lived in London I was dating another French guy- William, within a few month he had had to go back to France but we stayed friends and a few months later I went to visit him a month after the war in Iraq had started. He had arranged for us to go out with a friend of his, Nicolas, who spoke English well after living in Liverpool for a while. The topic of course fell on the American fury over France not joining in the conquest to ruin the middle east and initiate the downfall of America as the last Superpower! I was sheepish, mortified really, over petty American sentiment towards the French (get over WWII that was a long, long, time ago friends) and childish renaming of french fries to freedom fries, but Nicolas reassured me saying, French people can distinguish between a government and it's constituents- we hold no grudges, we just don't think this is a worthy war effort. I immediately decided I loved France- it seemed to have a culture of reason I had yet to find in my own country. 

Last night Sylvain and I went to his friends' Hadrian and Saw and within minutes our conversation turned to healthcare- P.S. friends- France's healthcare is rated #1 in the world... We were discussing the tea baggers and their penchant for using words they didn't know the meaning of, like Socialism. American's, I am certain of this, cannot correctly delineate the difference between communism and socialism. Our friends were shocked at the idea that so many in America could be so misguided in regards to the benefits and morality of healthcare for everyone, and that so many were raging on about Socialism (France is also several points ahead of the States in overall quality of life). Saw is muslim and found it equally difficult to stomach the aggressive front against muslim Americans and using it to slander Obama- how does a country like America go around acting like identity as a muslim is a bad thing. Moreover how in one breath do you slay Obama for going to a Christian church with Rev Wright and in the next breath forward emails about Obama's secret identity as a muslim prepared to take down America. Thanks friends, but he arrives a little too late- Bush took us down years ago...