ALERT: OBAMA DISSES SARKO, CUDDLES UP TO CHIRAC!
TRANSLATION OF le FIGARO ARTICLE BELOW:
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First Gordon Brown, now Nicolas Sarkozy. Which ally will Dear Leader insult next? Barack Obama wrote to Jacques Chirac
Barack Obama wrote a letter to Jacques Chirac to express his desire to “work” during the four years of its mandate, it was learned Friday from the family of former President, confirming information published by “Le Figaro” .
“I am confident that we can over the next four years working together in a spirit of peace and friendship to build a safer world,” writes the American president to the former French president in the letter addressed via the U.S. Embassy in Paris, in response to the message of congratulations from Jacques Chirac on his election.
The entourage of Jacques Chirac assured that we should not see this implied a tribute to the action of the former French president against the war in Iraq, but an allusion to his current fight with the head of his foundation the dialogue of cultures.
Jacques Chirac does not travel in the United States as part of its foundation, although no date is fixed, according to his entourage.
This attention to Barack Obama for Jacques Chirac could annoy Nicolas Sarkozy, who despite his best efforts has not yet met the new tenant of the White House since taking office.
The two presidents will be in London on April 2 at the summit of the G-20 on the reform of capitalism, then 3 and 4 April at the NATO summit in Strasbourg and Kehl.
Confidentiel : Barack Obama
a écrit à Jacques Chirac
Le président américain vient d’adresser une lettre «très sympathique » à Jacques Chirac, selon l’expression de ce dernier. «Je suis certain que nous pourrons au cours des quatre années à venir collaborer ensemble dans un esprit de paix et d’amitié afin de construire un monde plus sûr» , écrit le successeur de George W. Bush au prédécesseur de Nicolas Sarkozy. En évoquant le mot de « paix», Obama rend un hommage implicite à l’action de l’ancien président français qui s’était opposé à la guerre en Irak. Une intervention américaine contre laquelle le futur président américain s’était opposé comme sénateur, lors du vote au Congrès.
Translated version of
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20090320/twl-france-usa-obama-chirac-224d7fb.html
Here's a bad Babelfish translation - not as good as the one you have provided, but good enough to get the meaning:
Barack Obama wrote in Jacques Chirac The US president comes d' to very address a letter "sympathetic nerve" to Jacques Chirac, according to l' expression of this last. "I am certain that we will be able during the four years to come to collaborate together in a spirit of peace and d' friendship in order to build a surer world", writes the successor of George W. Bush to the predecessor of Nicolas Sarkozy. While evoking the word of "peace", Obama pays a homage implicit to l' action of l' former French president who s' was opposed to the war in Iraq. An American intervention against which the future US president s' was opposed as senator, at the time of the vote to the Congress.
Now if we can just keep this in French and out of the sight of the American public...
UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!
So, I’ve SEEN the text of the letter now... And I STILL can’t believe it! They HAVE to be trying to insult other nations — PLEASE tell me they are not THIS incompetent!
(Yes, I KNOW they are — I just WISH they were not — we’re doomed).
>>The two presidents will be in London on April 2 at the summit of the G-20<<
Sarko needs to have a closed-door, wall-to-wall talk-listen session with the pretender.
It is absolutely possible that the incompetent Obama administration is unaware that Chirac is no longer France’s president.
Can we trade president with the French?