From Times Online
April 15, 2009

Charles Bremner



France has been cooing along with everyone else over the arrival of Bo Obama at the White House, but the master of America's new First Dog is no longer in good odour with President Sarkozy.

Mr Sarkozy is pouring cold water on President Obama's efforts to recast American leadership on the world stage, depicting them as unoriginal, unsubstantial and overrated. Behind leaks and briefings from the Elysée Palace lies Mr Sarkozy's irritation at the rock-star welcome that Europe gave Mr Obama on his Europan tour earlier this month.

The American President's call "to free the world of the menace of a nuclear nightmare" was hot air, Mr Sarkozy's diplomatic staff told him in a report. "It was rhetoric – not a speech on American security policy but an export model aimed at improving the image of the United States," they said. Most of Mr Obama's proposals had already been made by the Bush administration and Washington was dragging its feet on disarmament and treaties against nuclear proliferation, the leaked report said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/world_agenda/article6098836.ece

Obama must have picked up one of Bush's old speeches by mistake.

He's just jealous that Michelle Obama is hotter than his wife and upstaged her!

fanta...you get a nudge for that one too

Ouch!

But its the truth!
Our First Lady is classy and hooottttttt,,,,,,

In this instance, Sarkozy is correct. Obama sucks, and for him to go around blabbering about taking care of nuclear weapons is like for a 2 year old to talk about heart transplant.

Let us not forget, who did developed nuclear weapons, and what was the only country ever to ever use them on others (twice).

Now, he goes around, presuming everyone is just anxious to use nuclear weaponry. Based on what historical fact?

Obama is blabbering, as usual, without ANY understanding, his blabber is as if a deadbeat was going around people with excellent credit, telling them to be on time with their payments.

I thought this was interesting. I had been reading in the euro papers while the summit was happening that Sarkozy and Merkel weren't impressed. He had already humiliated Gordon Brown, so I suppose that he is 3 for 3 with the big boys and girl of euro power. His claims of changing the image of a bullying America now willing to listen and not tell people what to do, rang hollow. Especially after his trip to Turkey when he said that the EU should accept them with open arms.

So much for not telling our new euro friends what to do.

Times online
April 17, 2009


Anyone who thinks only girls and gays can be *****y should have been at my school when the new boy arrived. He was tall, handsome, smart and sporty, and the hackles of the males were raised as quickly as the female defences dropped. “He's not that good-looking,” a former top dog was heard to hiss.

Some boys never grow up. And then they go into politics. The “mean girls” tactics of Damian McBride and Derek Draper should surprise few; they are professional smearers and *****ers who smear and ***** their way towards a concrete outcome such as the bringing down of a rival - all the while sniggering over their self-described “schoolboy” behaviour.

Nicolas Sarkozy has no such excuse. He's not some backroom operative, he's a head of state. He's meant to run a country. That has not stopped the arrival of a new - taller, more handsome and popular - president on the scene from turning him into the kind of *****y little princess that would make Graham Norton gasp.

Barack Obama? “Not up to standard on decision-making and efficiency,” President Sarkozy whispers. “Never even ran a ministry.” It would be funny if it weren't so pathetically obvious. Mr Sarkozy is out to strip the new boy of his shine.

Or anyone else in the vicinity, apparently. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain? “Not very clever.” José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission? “Totally absent.” Even political loyalty counts for little. Angela Merkel, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Mr Sarkozy at the G20 on greater global financial regulation, was derided as jumping on the French bandwagon only after she realised how parlous was the state of German industry. Sarkozy is the original betrayer, smiling and simpering to your face with a concealed dagger ready to plunge into you when your back is turned.

There is one leader whom the “hyper-president” claims to admire: Silvio Berlusconi, despite his constant stream of gaffes. But Mr Berlusconi is a buffoon, not a *****. Well might Mr Sarkozy aspire to his heights. If he had an ounce of Mr Berlusconi's boundless self-confidence, he would not need to sneak around like some pint-sized Iago dripping bile into ready ears.

There is little sign it is helping him to win allies at home. A poll published yesterday put his predecessor Jacques Chirac 30 points ahead of him in popularity. There's only one thing more threatening than a shiny new president: a shiny old one. Watch your back, Jacques.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6108647.ece

Sarkozy has Zero class!

Ive never known a frenchman that did.

That did what? And watch it, I'm french....

I think Sarkosy is an ass and it's hard not to see what his problem was, it just served to make HIM look like the fool, even if he had a point, he still made himself look bad...

ok but he is a world leader....ummmm shouldn't we ge along with him?

Who are you asking Rose? It would help if you could use the quote thingy so we know who your asking the question of? Was it me?

no hun .. i was asking in general