Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni Sarkozy
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Obama Snubs Sarkozy: Obama Refuses Dinner With French President - by Beth
Barack and Michelle Obama are in France this evening, but won’t be spending any quality time with their hosts, the President of France and his wife. It seems that French President Nicholas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy invited the Obamas out to dinner and the Obamas refused the invitation. This isn’t the first time Obama has snubbed Sarkozy, or the first time he’s snubbed other European leaders. In fact, it seems to be becoming a pattern. In fact, he seems to work hard at keeping European leaders at arms length …. à bout de bras. Actually, this seems to happen with anyone he doesn’t view as important to his own political advancement. In Sarkozy’s case, there was tension between the two leaders at the G20 conference. And there was the comments from Sarkozy about Obama’s inexperience. That didn’t go over well with Obama who sent a message to Sarkozy that he’d read up and do his homework next time. Obama has mastered the Chicago politics of ‘payback’ and has now put Sarkozy in the embarrassing position of having extended an invitation to another world leader and been turned down. So is it à bon chat, bon rat?
Note EU-Digest: If this is true - all one can say is that this is somewhat childish ( prima donna) behavior by Mr. Obama. After all he is not in Chicago but in France as a guest. On the other hand, which is more believable, it could also be another piece of evidence that the cash starved media, which believes it needs to revert to using sensationalist reporting to attract more readers and advertising.The fact is that Mr. Obama had a full day in Germany and only arrived back in France after 8.00 pm. He could also have been just tired. He also is facing another full day today in France.
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