[2ndDivisionVet]

Grown-ups who've reached their high positions through years of hard work, competition, study and merit usually don't suffer fools gladly, from what I've seen. Especially fools in important jobs.

[BillyBoy]

>>> Sarkozy told colleagues that he found Obama to be inexperienced and unbriefed, especially on climate change, according to The Times of London. From what I can determine, this means Sarkozy wanted Obama to promise more drastic "climate change goals," i. e. we should destroy our economy at least as much as Europe. Sarkozy ain't my hero.

Bingo. Sarko ain't no conservative and he ain't no role model. Sure he's "right-wing" by French standards, but Hillary Clinton is probably "right-wing" on the French political spectrum too. What they call right-wing vs. left-wing is apparently far-left wing vs. far-far-left wing over here (think Nancy Pelosi vs. Cindy Sheehan). Maybe some U.S. conservatives are happy a Pelosi type is running France instead of a Sheehan type, but not me. There are conservative leaders in Europe, and Sarko ain't one of them. Check out Czech President Václav Klaus is you want to see a genuine conservative voice the world should listen to. >>>

Soon after Barack Obama won the White House, French President Nicolas Sarkozy referred to him as “my friend” and strove to become the first European leader to meet with the newly elected American. Now the honeymoon between the two leaders is over, according to The Financial Times. <<

That what freepers seem to forget, that Sarko is one of the Euro weenies that were useful idiots for the mainstream media's goal of electing Obama in the first place. Sarko publicly urged Americans to elect Hussein and claimed it would "vindicate" his pro-US outreach. He made it very clear that he wanted Hussein to win that election -- "conservative" Nicholas Sarkozy wouldn't be caught dead supporting someone like Sarah Palin. The mainstream media loved all the European Obama worship, they could pressure Americans into believing that the whole planet would love us once we elected Hussein. I have no sympathy for these Euro twits like Sarko and Gordon Brown who fawned over Obama and have now soured on him. They wanted the empty suit marxist, and they got him.

>>> But Sarko is a big improvement over Chirac. <<

I would have to disagree with that. Aside from his smokin' hot slutty wife and his superfiscal "I love America" dog and pony show (oooooh Sarko vacations here!), I see very little difference in actual concrete policy. The french "conservatives" are still adamantly pro-abortion, pro-gay, gun-grabbing, tree-hugging, UN/EU-worshipping, surrender monkey, big government statists, which tells me they're as much our "friend" as Mexico's allegedly "conservative" politicians are. As usual, Sarko talks tough while his nation fall aparts and Muslims ring in the new year by setting Paris on fire. This guy isn't respected by his fellow Western european leaders, let alone being considered for "leader of the free world". What a scary thought.

[chilltherats]

I doubt Sarkozy would make the same observations and remarks about Palin.

[napscoordinator]

Oh please, FREEPERS on here hated France BIG TIME while Bush was Preaident. I don’t believe the French had much love for us either.

[SlayerOfBunnies]

Lol - an anti-Obama position is NOT the same thing as an anti-US position. It’s still weird to me that France is now a more conservative country than the US is.

[a fool in paradise]

So much for “improving” America’s relations with our allies.

[IbJensen]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday called for a national “carbon tax” on global-warming pollutants and a European levy on imports from countries outside the Kyoto Protocol.