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Now Obama has insulted French President Sarkozy!
http://europumas.over-blog.com/article-29271371.html ^

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


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To: Cincinna
Wow, so it does appear to be true.

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...

121 posted on 03/22/2009 7:02:43 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: LibFreeOrDie
"And the French are reporting that, too...with a video clip!"

That's a lie;
the clip you linked to is about Zero's "special Olympics" comment on Leno.

122 posted on 03/22/2009 7:03:21 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: livius

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffr.news.yahoo.com%2F3%2F20090320%2Ftwl-france-usa-obama-chirac-224d7fb.html&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0=


124 posted on 03/22/2009 7:03:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: cripplecreek
The idiot has even met President Sarkozy last year on his Campaign tour

Obama meets pro-US Sarkozy in Paris

125 posted on 03/22/2009 7:03:45 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for Obama: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
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To: SonOfPyrodex

“Too late. France can literally go to hell.”

- As a European, I can understand your bitterness.

But why all of this whining?

Get back in business again and give cross-atlantic cooperation another chance. It’s never to late to defend the very values that our civilization is founded upon.

We Europeans let you down in the aftermath of 9/11, yes, but remember many Europeans think so too.

Also please remember we contribute to the WOT too, even if we Europeans, admittedly, still aren’t doing our fair share of the job.

Changes will come.

Europe won’t let America down forever.


126 posted on 03/22/2009 7:03:48 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: John123

You might want to see post 100. If you don’t read French, you can translate it in Babelfish.


127 posted on 03/22/2009 7:04:21 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: DaveinOK54
ROFLMAOPIMP!!! This just keeps getting better and better! You GO, Barry! Bwahahaha!
128 posted on 03/22/2009 7:05:35 PM PDT by NoPrisoners (Huh? You mean he's NOT the messiah??? / sarcasm)
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To: DaveinOK54
Help me out here folks Could he really be this stupid????...YES....
129 posted on 03/22/2009 7:08:29 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: MarkeyD
This can’t be real.*
130 posted on 03/22/2009 7:10:54 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: Redbob

Did you go back and read the post to which I was responding?


131 posted on 03/22/2009 7:12:33 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
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To: Lexinom

I posted a translation at post 116. I don’t think Bambi believes that Chirac is still president; I think he is purposely ignoring Sarkozy, who is conservative by French standards, and addressing Chirac because he and Bambi shared the same opinions on Iraq.


132 posted on 03/22/2009 7:15:00 PM PDT by livius
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To: WesternCulture
"Seriously speaking, what is your idea of how Europe and America together could defeat Islamofascism?"

Seriously speaking, you're not suggesting that the French have in any way stood up to muslim fanaticism???
Any way at all???

133 posted on 03/22/2009 7:15:53 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: DaveinOK54

Dang....Now that is funny!


134 posted on 03/22/2009 7:18:59 PM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Let ze battellle commense!
135 posted on 03/22/2009 7:20:41 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: DaveinOK54
Chirac is a lefty, Sarkozy is not.

Obama chooses to work with Chirac.

I mean whats so confusing about that?

Obama will only work with leftists.

136 posted on 03/22/2009 7:21:38 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule, and derision. (member NRA)
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To: DaveinOK54

Now what has Barry done...can’t a girl watch her Hallmark movie in peace!


137 posted on 03/22/2009 7:22:37 PM PDT by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: John123

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1465571.php/Obama_tacitly_honours_Chiracs_stance_against_Iraq_war_

Here’s an English version on another site. Note that it doesn’t say 0bie wrote the letter TO Chirac, just refers to Chirac’s comments about a letter 0bie wrote.


138 posted on 03/22/2009 7:22:44 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (American Revolution II -- overdue.)
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To: Lexinom

Not bad for a fish :+]


139 posted on 03/22/2009 7:23:59 PM PDT by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
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To: TommyDale

Sounds worse!


140 posted on 03/22/2009 7:24:36 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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