OMG. CNN reports that Kerry actually speaks French.

[countmyvote4real]

Kerry is not my first or second choice, but this is yet another example of how the media whores will try to take us down. "He speaks French!" Reportedly learned it at a Swiss boarding school.

Quelle surprise!

[David Dunham]

1. He also speaks Spanish and better than Bush

[dsc]

7. He does?

Why didn't he speak it at the Brown and Black forum or the other debate where there were Spanish speakers? I knew Teresa spoke it but figured he didn't.

[fortyfeetunder]

15. Bilingual debate

Maybe that should be offered as a possibility. * wouldn't have a chance against Kerry...

[fujiyama]

2. Good for him...

So it seems that most of our candidates can speak more than one language.

Bush can't even speak one.

[Myra]

3. Sacre blue. On the upside, they also spent time talking about Chimpy

being AWOL. So Michael Moore and Clark have brought that
back into the news. And while Kerry deserves no credit for
that, he'll benefit from it.

[Sandpiper]

4. Bush is still struggling

With his mastery of English.

[aquart]

5. He communicates with our enemies, the French?

Tant pis.

[PretzelWarrior]

6. he should brush up on Idjit-speak so he can understand Bush

in the debates. He can give his answers in English, French, and Spanish. I really hate the whoring media. Old Dennis Miller and Russert were brainstorming ways Bush WH can/will take down Kerry on his voting record.

they are feckin' bastards. I want them sent to Guantanamo Bay and set up a whole new group of media folks who aren't on the tak and looking for invites to Washington parties (like Margaret Carlson, the biggest harlot of them all).

[stopbush]

8. Excellent ! S'il est vrai que John Kerry parle français,

alors il a juste gagné son premier point avec moi!

[Feanorcurufinwe]

9. I had heard that he was fluent, but I saw at a town meeting

where a Quebecois couple tried speaking to him, he just managed to say he was too rusty to speak.

Of course, he could be perfectly fluent and just calculating it wouldn't be a good thing to show off right now.

[Maine-i-acs]

16. Quebecois French is a bit different -

than the French you'd learn in a Swiss boarding school.

A lot of my schoolmates learned European French, but an occasional teacher with a French-Canadian lineage could accurately show both dialects in class.

[JI7]

10. well, he is french isn't he ?

heheh

[countmyvote4real]

11. I should have put this in the first post or made it more apparent...

What beef does the media have with an educated candidate? It sure beats the dumb fuk resident we have there now.

[knight_of_the_star]

12. So?

He probably speaks French as a second language better than Dumbya speaks English as his first.

[Hieronymus]

13. Kerry is fluent in French,

Teresa's fluent in five languages, she's brilliant and damn good looking, I'd be proud to see her as first lady.
I said I wouldn't vote for him because of his vote on the war, but I will do anything to get rid of Bush.:hi:

[mb7588a]

14. He did some boarding school time in Switzerland,

I think, though don't know for sure, he also has a working knowledge of vietnamese.

[Doctor_J]

17. That puts him two languages ahead of Smirk,

who is fluent in onthing.

[Raya]

18. SShhhh. It is supposed to be a secret. Spoke French as Kid

Don't think he is totally fluent but I here he has a little of
several languages under his belt.

[July]

19. I believe GHWB is also fluent in French

Unfortunately, it's only a vague recollection now of something from the time when he was president or vice-president; I think I remember that he tried not to make much of it because (even then) it would be perceived as something an "elite" would know. Anybody able to help me here?

[spindoctor]

20. Maybe Kerry IS French?? huh? huh?

I hear he's been known to wear French cologne as well.
If it looks French, sounds French and smells French, chances are....

Oh well, California has an Austrian Governor and I think Bush looks slightly Saudi when he grows a beard and wears Barbara's dish towels on his head.