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Annoy France. Vote for Bush.

Although voting against Kerry will do if it comes down to that, lately I've been feeling like I need a reason to vote for Bush. (See, e.g., Yellow Dog Confessional.) Thank goodness, we can always count on the French to give you one. John Kerry is going around saying:

Without naming anybody, Kerry said he had received words of encouragement from leaders abroad who were eager to see him defeat Bush on Nov. 2. "I've met foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, but boy they look at you and say, 'You've got to win this, you've got to beat this guy, we need a new policy,' things like that...."

I'm just speculating that our purported French allies are one of Kerry's sources, of course, but it sure sounds like Chirac to me.