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Memo assures French
Foreign Minister U.S. 'will be there' for France
By Mickey Sartre, News Lampoon
cub reporter

March 14, 2008--A secret
memo has been obtained by the News Lampoon detailing a meeting
between Barack Obama aide Austan Goolsbee and French Foreign Minister
Bernard Kouchner.
Goolsbee is the same aide who
was the subject of the controversy surrounding a
previous secret memo, this one detailing the Obama campaign's
assurances to the Canadian Government that
Obama was lying to Ohio voters about his supposed opposition to the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). NAFTA has been good for Canada but not
Ohio, according to some economists. The discovery of the Canadian
secret memo is thought to be a large part of the reason Hillary Clinton
won the Ohio Democratic Primary.
The latest secret memo, a
handwritten, coffee- and wine-stained document, details Obama's plans to
"help our French enemies in ways the present administration has not."
While neither denying nor
admitting the existence of the secret memo, Kouchner said he does agree in
principle with what it says.
"We have to talk with our
enemies, especially the United States," Kouchner said Wednesday in Paris.
"That's why an Obama presidency would be good for France.
Monsieur Obama, unlike
a certain American president, believes in talking with his enemies."
According to the memo, an Obama
presidency would be dedicated to finding new ways to rebuild good will between the U.S. and France,
first of which would be to strike down
smoking bans in U.S. cities. "As a smoker, Barack Obama understands
the importance of being free to have a smoke anywhere one wants to,
including government buildings, restaurants, hospitals, churches, and daycare centers," the memo
reads. "As a further gesture of good will, every French man and woman
entering the United States will be given a free carton of Marlboros.
In addition to addressing ways
to help support
France's nicotine addiction, the memo also seems to address
the French people's disdain for regular bathing and use of body deodorant.
"Barack feels a kinship with
French-speaking nations like Canada, Haiti, and of course France,
especially France. Barack bathes only when he absolutely has to and
encourages his staff to do likewise, in fact requires it. His wife, qui s'appelle
Michelle,
calls him 'Stinky.' He encourages staff members to call him 'B.O.'
. . . As president, B.O. will certainly 'be there' for the French whenever he can.
He's begun taking French lessons and plans to purchase a second home in
France as soon as
Tony Rezko can find him one."
The memo also outlines a plan
that would require all Americans to learn the French language, make French
the U.S.'s "official second language," and would prohibit Americans who
are not fluent speakers of French from visiting France.
Monsieur Goolsbee, who is said to be
hiding out somewhere in France, was not immediately available for comment
on this story.
Sources:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/02/01/rezko/
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jrFPkleRZmbmPtPxHBGNAPSzfUtwD8V61MF01
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/12/europe/france.php
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/12/michelle_obama200712?currentPage=1
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