French President Mocks Obama

[Sinatra]

Obama: “We must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the earth.”

Sarkozy: “We live in the real world, not the virtual world. And the real world expects us to take decisions.”

The rest of Sarkozy’s remarks were, well, remarkable:

“President Obama dreams of a world without weapons … but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite.

“Iran since 2005 has flouted five security council resolutions. North Korea has been defying council resolutions since 1993.

“I support the extended hand of the Americans, but what good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community? More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe a UN member state off the map,” he continued, referring to Israel.

The sharp-tongued French leader even implied that Mr Obama’s resolution 1887 had used up valuable diplomatic energy.

“If we have courage to impose sanctions together it will lend viability to our commitment to reduce our own weapons and to making a world without nuke weapons,” he said.

Mr Sarkozy has previously called the US president’s disarmament crusade “naive.”

No American newspapers seem to have featured Sarkozy’s justifiably derisive remarks about Obama’s naivete regarding the realities of nuclear technology. Still we can be grateful for the freedom of the press, as embodied and celebrated by the Newseum — including the chilling reconstruction of segments of the Berlin Wall. These serve as a reminder that however oppressive or myopic the powers-that-be, news cannot be stifled.

The Truth Will Set You Free by John Sykes: Sarkozy Mocks Obama at UN Security Council: "We live in the real world, not the virtual world."

 

[Modbert]

President Obama is not going to eliminate all nuclear weapons despite what Sinatra seems to think. Disarming has been a goal of U.S Presidents dating back to Reagan who was the one who really put forth the dream of getting rid of all nuclear weapons.

So while it's nice that you want to post this article to just bash Obama, do realize you're bashing your hero as well.

The banishing of Nuclear arms may not happen tomorrow, but one day that dream will occur hopefully. Besides, how many nukes do you think we need to take care of our enemies?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Sinatra chopped the Sarkozy out of context. To understand, one will have to go find the whole speech. Here is a factual and objective analysis of what happened as Obama, Sarkozy, and other leaders joined forces against Iran @ http://www.examiner.com/x-12837-US-...building-nuclear-facility-call-on-IAEA--video

What a tyoid you are, Sinatra.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama's not that smart

 

[Si modo]

Sinatra chopped the Sarkozy out of context. To understand, one will have to go find the whole speech. Here is a factual and objective analysis of what happened as Obama, Sarkozy, and other leaders joined forces against Iran @ G-20 Summit Obama, Brown, and Sarkozy accuse Iran of building nuclear facility call on IAEA video

What a tyoid you are, Sinatra.

Funny, I see less context of Sarkozy's words in your link.

 

[Sinatra]

Sinatra chopped the Sarkozy out of context. To understand, one will have to go find the whole speech. Here is a factual and objective analysis of what happened as Obama, Sarkozy, and other leaders joined forces against Iran @ G-20 Summit Obama, Brown, and Sarkozy accuse Iran of building nuclear facility call on IAEA video

What a tyoid you are, Sinatra.

Funny, I see less context of Sarkozy's words in your link.

 

[The T]

Obama's not that smart

Answer?)

Correct.

 

[The T]

Sinatra chopped the Sarkozy out of context. To understand, one will have to go find the whole speech. Here is a factual and objective analysis of what happened as Obama, Sarkozy, and other leaders joined forces against Iran @ G-20 Summit Obama, Brown, and Sarkozy accuse Iran of building nuclear facility call on IAEA video

What a tyoid you are, Sinatra.

Is this some Super-Secret Statist term?

No results found for tyoid:
Dictionary suggestions:

 

[The T]

Sinatra chopped the Sarkozy out of context. To understand, one will have to go find the whole speech. Here is a factual and objective analysis of what happened as Obama, Sarkozy, and other leaders joined forces against Iran @ G-20 Summit Obama, Brown, and Sarkozy accuse Iran of building nuclear facility call on IAEA video

What a tyoid you are, Sinatra.

Funny, I see less context of Sarkozy's words in your link.

 

[Dr.House]

Sinatra chopped the Sarkozy out of context. To understand, one will have to go find the whole speech. Here is a factual and objective analysis of what happened as Obama, Sarkozy, and other leaders joined forces against Iran @ G-20 Summit Obama, Brown, and Sarkozy accuse Iran of building nuclear facility call on IAEA video

What a tyoid you are, Sinatra.

Is this some Super-Secret Statist term?

No results found for tyoid:
Dictionary suggestions:

It's just Jake making shit up again....

 

[JakeStarkey]

Dictionary definition for "tyoid": Sinatra and House, for starters.

si modo, you are projecting again. You guys need to be honest for a change and deal with facts as they are, instead of how you wished they were. Your interp is wrong. Either you are mentally deficient or mentally malignant.

In other words, honchos, don't chop others' work out of context, or I will metaphorically kick it up your collective butts.

 

[The T]

Sinatra chopped the Sarkozy out of context. To understand, one will have to go find the whole speech. Here is a factual and objective analysis of what happened as Obama, Sarkozy, and other leaders joined forces against Iran @ G-20 Summit Obama, Brown, and Sarkozy accuse Iran of building nuclear facility call on IAEA video

What a tyoid you are, Sinatra.

Is this some Super-Secret Statist term?

No results found for tyoid:
Dictionary suggestions:

It's just Jake making shit up again....

It's what I suspect.

 

[The T]

Dictionary definition for "tyoid": Sinatra and House, for starters.

si modo, you are projecting again. You guys need to be honest for a change and deal with facts as they are, instead of how you wished they were. Your interp is wrong. Either you are mentally deficient or mentally malignant.

In other words, honchos, don't chop others' work out of context, or I will metaphorically kick it up your collective butts.

So what is that WORD that you foisted? POST IT. But rather YOU go on the Pesonal Path of Attack.

Thought so.

Reee--Jected!

 

[Annie]

Sinatra chopped the Sarkozy out of context. To understand, one will have to go find the whole speech. Here is a factual and objective analysis of what happened as Obama, Sarkozy, and other leaders joined forces against Iran @ G-20 Summit Obama, Brown, and Sarkozy accuse Iran of building nuclear facility call on IAEA video

What a tyoid you are, Sinatra.

Shortcut through all those videos:

Time is all about Obama, no love lost with Sarkozy. They had the official stuff, now here comes the slams:
Sarkozy's Comments on Leaders Draw Shock, Denial - TIME

Saturday, Apr. 18, 2009
Sarkozy's Comments on Leaders Draw Shock, Denial
By Bruce Crumley / Paris
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's triumphant march to the Elysée was paved with a promise to ignore formality. To his credit, that style has helped deliver some reformist victories at home. But that undiplomatic swagger can also get Sarkozy into trouble — especially when he talks trash about foreign leaders.

That's exactly what happened this week when French daily Libération revealed that Sarkozy had delivered some astonishingly unflattering comments about several foreign officials — including American President Barack Obama. During a lunch with a group of French legislators Wednesday, Sarkozy reportedly described Obama as inexperienced, ill-prepared by advisers, and thus far "not always up to standard on decision-making and efficiency." And those turned out to be relatively kind words. Sarkozy said German Chancellor Angela Merkel had been reluctantly forced by economic realities to copy his own policies for dealing with the recession. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, said the French President, was simply "not very clever." (Read why Jacques Chirac is more popular than Sarkozy.)

According to Libération, parliamentarians at the meeting said Sarkozy had described the new U.S. president as having "a subtle mind, very clever and very charismatic, but he was elected two months ago and had never run a ministry." On matters like Europe's efforts to fight global warming and in his call for a world free of nuclear arms, Sarkozy apparently said Obama was naïve.

Sarkozy also suggested that Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi's multiple elections wins is proof of his greatness. "What is important in democracy is to be re-elected," Libération cited Sarkozy as saying, a phrase unlikely to join "fraternité, égalité et liberté" as a description of French democratic ideals.We all know that democracy is passe.

When international newspapers picked up the comments the Elysée went into spin mode, denying the most offensive quips, particularly those about Obama. But parliamentarians party to Wednesday's dissing included members from France's opposition Socialist Party, who had no qualms about confirming Sarkozy's comments — and at times add detail to them.

As a result, doubly disgusted reports from abroad frequently contained condemnations similar to the Times of London's description of Sarkozy as a "bitchy little princess". Spain's ABC said Sarkozy's behavior confirmed frequent complaints in France that his "superiority complex has no limits." By midday Friday, the global coverage of Libération's report had come full circle, with French media like the daily Le Monde running stories about "The Arrogant Sarkozy Fingered By the International Press."

The one question missing in the media frenzy was, however, what took so long for everyone to catch on? Even before his election as president, Sarkozy had secured a reputation as a man with a quick and nasty temper, sharp tongue, and obsession with coming out on top in verbal slap fights — particularly ones played out in public. Presidential aides regularly say that privately Sarkozy "has no time for diplomats, whom he considers wl — ers".

During a November, 2007 visit to protesting fishermen in Britany, Sarkozy was reduced to furiously babbling as he sought to call a detractor out to insult him face to face. A year later, Sarkozy snarled "get out of here, you poor a — hole" to a man who refused to let the president shake his hand during a book fair appearance. Just hours before the now notorious Wednesday lunch, Sarkozy delivered a monumental verbal lashing to a trio of cabinet members for publicly jockeying for advancement ahead of a shake-up. Astonishingly, that demonstration of presidential butt-kicking was then recounted by the government's spokesman.

Presidents pushing people around is old hat, of course. But Sarkozy's criticisms of some of the most powerful leaders on earth is rare. Merkel in particular might feel slighted. Sarkozy's threat to bolt London's G20 summit earlier this month if Washington and London didn't bend to his demands on stimulus strategies and financial market regulations was made with the support of Merkel — who put her previous disdain and mistrust of Sarkozy aside in order to back him.

Sarkozy also visibly swelled with pride beside Obama as he hosted the American to a rock star's welcome to NATO's 60th anniversary event. Now, his behind-closed-doors comments not only raise questions about Sarkozy's understanding of international diplomacy but leave the French president looking like the lightweight leader he says he sees when he looks at his peers.

Even for TIME, this is over the top.

 

[Si modo]

Dictionary definition for "tyoid": Sinatra and House, for starters.

si modo, you are projecting again. You guys need to be honest for a change and deal with facts as they are, instead of how you wished they were. Your interp is wrong. Either you are mentally deficient or mentally malignant.

In other words, honchos, don't chop others' work out of context, or I will metaphorically kick it up your collective butts.

I'll ask again:

si modo, you are projecting again.

Why don't you explain how? Clearly articluate the rationale for your conclusion. It's not hard to do, if one knows what they are talking about.

Perhaps you can answer here, then follow the link and answer there, too. Your dodging once allows for a reasonable suspicion that you have no idea what you're talking about. Your dodging again, we'll be sure.

We'll await your answer.






Or not.

 

[KittenKoder]

I kept saying the French were pretty cool people in spite of Bush bad mouthing them ...

 

[JakeStarkey]

si modo knows the answer. Sarkozy's speech was chopped out of context. I gave a link that gave a fair and balanced article and report on it. You don't want to accept that you are partisan and not objective, go for it. It is your type of thinking and your type of action that got your political butt handed to you in the last election.

Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and thinking you will get a different result.

Keep doing what you are doing, and you will get your butt hand to you again in 2010 and 2012.

 

[The T]

si modo knows the answer. Sarkozy's speech was chopped out of context. I gave a link that gave a fair and balanced article and report on it. You don't want to accept that you are partisan and not objective, go for it. It is your type of thinking and your type of action that got your political butt handed to you in the last election.

Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and thinking you will get a different result.

Keep doing what you are doing, and you will get your butt hand to you again in 2010 and 2012.

Is this why you repeat yourself?

 

[WillowTree]

Krauthammer said today, that obama is screwing up big time "wondering out loud about his "stratagey" in Afghanistan.. my oh my no way to conduct a war.

 

[Si modo]

si modo knows the answer. Sarkozy's speech was chopped out of context. I gave a link that gave a fair and balanced article and report on it. You don't want to accept that you are partisan and not objective, go for it. It is your type of thinking and your type of action that got your political butt handed to you in the last election.

Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and thinking you will get a different result.

Keep doing what you are doing, and you will get your butt hand to you again in 2010 and 2012.

LMAO. Confirmed. You type nonsense.