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2009-03-23 Europe

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Posted by Steve White 2009-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 ObamaUpsets Sarkozy With Letter to Jacques Chirac
French newspaper Le Figaro is horrified at the faux pas. And, current French President Sarkozy was appparently upset with the letter.
Europumas and Free Republic has the latest:

Now Obama has insulted French President Sarkozy!

Oh no! Obama sent a letter to Chirac, saying he looks forward to working with him the next four years. Le Figaro, French newspaper is horrified at the faux pas. Doesn't Obama ever consult his staff before acting? Sarkozy is the President there! It's like Sarko writing to George Bush and saying he looks forward to working with him. Chirac is the FORMER president.

Posted by tipper 2009-03-23 01:50|| 2009-03-23 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Obama upsets Sarkozy With Letter to Jacques Chirac

Didn't the MSM say us that Bush was the moron and Obama a bright guy?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2009-03-23 02:36|| 2009-03-23 02:36|| Front Page Top

#3 JFM, apparently O'man and his closed circle get all their information from that same MSM, so why should we all be surprised that they don't have a grasp on reality outside of journalism school's best and brightest. Remember in journalism, the narrative trumps truth.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-23 07:31|| 2009-03-23 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Apparently, the staff lost the letter from Sarkosy, congatulating The One on his election. That was in November, after all...

Posted by Bobby 2009-03-23 08:01|| 2009-03-23 08:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Oui, M. le Ver.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2009-03-23 08:23|| 2009-03-23 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Didn't he have some press conference with Sarkozy right after his "Triumph of the Swill" speech in Berlin?

I breathlessly await the moment he confuses Austria and Australia.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-03-23 08:34|| 2009-03-23 08:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Poor helpless bugger. Oh well, at least the French got a good laugh out of it.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-23 08:40|| 2009-03-23 08:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Baraq Hussein Obama: Jerry Lewis for 21st century?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-23 08:48|| 2009-03-23 08:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Slate's doing a "Obama gaffe of the day" column now, right?

Right?

Aren't they?

What is that sound, crickets?

Posted by Parabellum 2009-03-23 08:49|| 2009-03-23 08:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Cher Barack no more, I presume.

Gah.

Posted by Seafarious 2009-03-23 10:54|| 2009-03-23 10:54|| Front Page Top

#11 maybe next time when Sarkozy visits Obama, the Prez can give him a nice Jerry Lewis rubber mask in exchange for the case of Chateau Rothchild 1973 that Sarkozy gives Obama

Posted by mhw 2009-03-23 11:21|| 2009-03-23 11:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Now there's word that the O man had a meeting with Gorbachev.

Pissed off the:

British - check
French - check
Russians - check
Germans - working on it
Japanese - working on it

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-03-23 12:37|| 2009-03-23 12:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Wait... what? I thought Bush was supposed to be the idiot, not this guy.

Posted by eltoroverde 2009-03-23 13:01|| 2009-03-23 13:01|| Front Page Top

#14 The common response seems to be that Obama is an idiot. I posit that he knows exactly what he wants to do... alienate everyone and thereby weaken the US in all foreign relations. Why? Dunno - maybe he's a one-worlder and and sees the US as the main obstacle to world gov't by the UN or some such. I'd look for links to Soros.

Posted by Whinens Bluetooth7058 2009-03-23 15:03|| 2009-03-23 15:03|| Front Page Top

#15 His mistake was asking Biden who the president of France was.

Posted by DoDo 2009-03-23 15:09|| 2009-03-23 15:09|| Front Page Top

#16 merde!

Posted by Craimble the Imposter5967 2009-03-23 16:08|| 2009-03-23 16:08|| Front Page Top

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