Posted on 03/22/2009 4:56:54 PM PDT by DaveinOK54
Help me out here folks Could he really be this stupid????
Now Obama has insulted French President Sarkozy!
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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.
Here is a translation of the letter in Le Figaro:
Vendredi 20 mars 2009 OBAMA PREFERS CHIRAC !
Barack Obama does not seem to know that in May 2007, French voters elected Nicolas Sarkozy to the French presidency, to succeed Jacques Chirac who had been president for twelve years.
Yesterday, we told you Sarkozy is irritated because Mister O. refuses to tell him if he will accept to meet him personally in the next few months.
Strangely, we have just learnt this surprising piece of news :
Barack Obama wrote a letter to Jacques Chirac to tell him about his desire to "work with him" for the next four years ! In a letter described by Chirac as "very nice," Obama wrote, "I am certain that we will be able to work together, in the coming four years, in a spirit of peace and friendship to build a safer world." The use of the word "peace" was taken to be an indirect reference to Chirac's stance against the US intervention in Iraq, which Obama had also opposed.
This revelation was made by the online edition of the daily Le Figaro on Thursday.
Vendredi 20 mars 2009 OBAMA PREFERS CHIRAC !
So, if I understand well, Mister O., who has already despised Gordon Brown, behaving with him as if he did not know he is Prime Minister of Britain, does not even know the name of the French president.
I wonder if someone had told him, when he came to France last summer, that the man he met was NOT Jacques Chirac !
In any case, for Sarko, the blow must be terrible : he has tried to persuade Obama to invite him in Washington for months, and now he learns that his predecessor might soon be Obama's guest at the White House before him ! http://europumas.over-blog.com/article-29271371.html edited to add the original french article: http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualites/20...es-chirac-.php
We are happy The Obammunist has been publically humiliated by Putin, Chaves, Amahdinejad. My concern is the private diplomacy Hussein campaigned on.
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Is this a trick question?
“I starting to wonder if its just cigarettes hes smoking.”
I had the same thought, also those he has selected for his staff.
Thanks for your post, It seems some like to leave the unpleasant parts out in hopes of covering for “O”s
nastiness.
You guys kicked but for sure on that one. The Winter War!
I, as an American, hold no grudge against you. You are truely a brave and honest people. Responsible for most of what has made America great. After all, the peoples of Europe were the ones that founded this country.
But much time has passed from then. Seems that things, not of our making, have brought us to this point. Governments, or should I say Socialism, the scurge of humanity, have brought us to this point. I pray it is not a point of no return.
“I, as an American, hold no grudge against you.”
- Nice to hear that.
Our enemies believe they can cause disunity and sow discord among us.
They are severly mistaken.
Yes, America and Europe will always quarrel.
But America will never let Fascism take over Europe
- and Europe will never accept terrorist strikes against our foremost ally.
What USA has done for the freedom of Europe will never be forgotten on my continent.
This is another example of an article posted to make us look stupid. Obama was responding to a letter written to his foundation from Chirac.
I THINK WE SHOULD READ THE FACTS BEFORE POSTING SOMETHING THAT IS OBVIOUSLY BOGUS OR TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT.
I think you should get some informations before calling your wishfull-thinking “facts”!
Every one knows,in France, that CHIRAC and SARKOZY disagree on important issues.
And Obama’s letter has been considered has an affront for SARKOZY or,at least,a diplomatic mistake....
At least the guy who pretend to be POTUS is completly out of touch...But i think that’s even worse,that is arrogant libtard lunacy
THere was a thread on FR yesterday about Obama meeting with GORBACHEV!!!! Wanting to “work with him”. !! My thought was the same as with this-—doesn’t he know Gorby is now out of power????What relevance could Gorby have?
Or are there some wacky stealth plans for this Obama Administration to restore Chirac and Gorby to some kind of Jimmy Carter “Ambassador-to-the-World” significance?
The post emplies that Obama committed some faux paux. He didn’t. He knew exactly what he was doing.
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