Obama insults France, Refuses to Dine with Sarkozy
American President Barack Obama once again succeeded in insulting a major ally today:
America’s First Family will not be dining with President Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, even though they are staying at the residence of the US Ambassador, yards from the Elysée apartments where the Sarkozys spend their weekends.
The Sarkozys invited the Obamas over for dinner, but the latter declined. The reason?
Mr Obama’s irritation with his French counterpart began when Mr Sarkozy tried to grab the limelight at the G20 summit in London in April and talked condescendingly of the US President in private. Mr Sarkozy told colleagues that he found Mr Obama to be inexperienced and unbriefed, especially on climate change. Mr Obama hit back last month, telling a visiting French minister: “Please tell Nicolas that I shall do my homework, and in two months I’ll know all about climate change.”
That’s Obama in a nutshell for you. He is God, and infidel dogs who deny it have to be punished and, if possible, publicly humiliated.
Read more at Hot Air’s Greenroom.
This website uses IntenseDebate comments, but they are not currently loaded because either your browser doesn't support JavaScript, or they didn't load fast enough.
Comments are closed.
PoliGazette Comments Policy
PoliGazette encourages comments from all viewpoints, especially those that disagree.
Comments submitted must, however, adhere to the following standards. Comments that violate
these standards may be edited or deleted without notice at the sole discretion of the editors.
Commenters who repeatedly or egregiously violate these standards or who attempt to argue
publicly with editors regarding the comments policy may be banned from commenting further.
(1) Comments should address the substantive content of the post. Comments that repeatedly
or blatantly misrepresent the content of the post or of others' comments are not welcome. Comments that
respond to something other than which the contributor or commenter may have said are irrelevant and should
not be posted.
(2) Comments should avoid vulgarity as well as racial, ethnic, religious, or sexual bigotry.
(3) Comments should not personally attack the character, personal integrity, or professional
reputation of any PoliGazette contributor or of other commenters.
(4) Comments should reflect the contributions of the commenters themselves and should not
include extensive cut-and-paste reproductions of others' words except insofar as necessary to supplement
the commenter's own arguments. Link spam, trackback spam, and propaganda spam will be instantly deleted.
(5) Public figures are considered open to all substantive criticism of their policies and statements.
Comments that present objectively false factual information about public figures (i.e. "Obama is a Muslim") or
that attack public figures by attacking their families are not welcome. Comments that merely repeat
slogans for or against a candidate without engaging in substantive comment are not welcome.
Questions or challenges to these policies or their application should be directed to the editors
by email only.
This sounds remarkably similar to liberal criticisms about Bush on his visits to Europe. Could it be that the shoe is on the other foot and people have begun playing their new parts without missing a beat?
The liberal instinct seems to be to insult friendly nations (France, Israel and Britain) and to fawn over unfriendly ones (Iran and who knows, maybe North Korea). Remember to the relativist mind rules only apply to “us” (Western nations) never to “the Other” (enemies).
Jeb: you may have noticed that I criticized Bush about that as well – several times, in fact. I blasted Rumsfeld as well for his idiotic “old and new europe” comment. In other wordS: I’m pretty consistent on this one.
David: I think that’s certainly a possibility.
Pres. Sarkozy has become an irritant to many.
They are the French, I could care less if they get dissed.