..."make sure you tell the Puppet Man, to check with me before he invites the &^*#%ing gang from South Park over to play with the kids"
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
I forgot about that one - the first clue. lol I hope someone is keeping track of all his gaffes.
Principal=principle
merde pour le cerveau
Sacre bleu! Imbeccile!
“I am certain that we will be able during the four years to come to collaborate together in a spirit of peace and of friendship in order to build a safer world”,
I’m just thankful he said FOUR YEARS and not LIFE. :)
Showtime at the Apollo comes to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
ALERT: OBAMA DISSES SARKO, CUDDLES UP TO CHIRAC!
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Yes, Obama, aka TOTUS is that stupid, misinformed, and ignorant of the leaders on the world stage.
this so called Obama “gaffe” is totally true. The letter is reprinted in Le Figaro, the center right French newspaper.
I’m sure Sarko isn’t losing any sleep over this. He knows that is BFFs in the free world are GWB and Bibi Netanyahu.
Mano a Mano, Sarko v. Obama, I wouldn’t be placiung my bets on the TOTUS.
I believe it is possible it is just sneaky, snarky, Obama,dissing Sarko, by pretending not to know that a right wing, pro-American President has become President of France.
BTW, Jacques Iraq is in total retirement, and supported Sarko’s election.
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.
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://conservativeamerican.org/dems-libs-socialists/obama/obama-100-scandals-within-100-days/
..."make sure you tell the Puppet Man, to check with me before he invites the &^*#%ing gang from South Park over to play with the kids"
Thanks for the translation of the comment. It also sounds like the newspaper's on-line commenter is lamenting that the Le Figaro took things out of context to make Obama look bad. Now there's a switch for you ... a major newspaper making 0 look bad!
Somewhere in France, Sarko and a slew of his cabinet are doing face palms over this epic..”fail”.
This CAN’T be for real...No way. POST the evidence please. Let’s SEE it...!?
Thanks Cincinna!
Venezuela’s Chavez calls Obama “ignoramus”
Reuter’s | 3-22-09 | Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Eric Walsh
Posted on 03/22/2009 1:10:15 PM PDT by jackv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212187/posts
KJ, can you read this? Does it really say he wrote to Chirac or is it just a letter to a foundation?
Cindie
The original item in Le Figaro does not make it clear one way or the other.
LOL
Too bad he couldn’t see France from his back yard, he might have known better!
Cindie
Except they will preside (for real) over more important things than the homecoming day theme and Friday Pizza parties.
So he writes to an “ancien” president under the delusion that he is still in office.
This gives real meaning to that old French put down: “Nostalgie de la boue.”
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
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