March 31, 2010

Obama Gets (Sar)kozy…

…with the World Government crowd.

Interestingly, it seems to begin with the two leaders showing their disdain for one another…

France may be America’s oldest ally, but the presidents of the two countries are not exactly the best of buddies.

When President Obama visited Paris in June, he declined a dinner invitation from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, even though he had no evening plans and was staying just a few doors down from the Elysee Palace.

The brushoff followed a more substantive snubbing, when the French president turned down a U.S. request to put more troops into Afghanistan. Mr. Obama responded by sending a letter to former French President Jacques Chirac expressing his desire to “work together … to build a safer world.”

The petite but fiery Sarko was reportedly livid.

So when he arrived in the U.S. on Monday, Mr. Sarkozy went not to Washington but to New York, where he delivered a speech at Columbia University.

There, he mocked Mr. Obama’s recent health care reform victory, saying “if you want me to be really honest, when we see the U.S. debate on the health care reform from Europe, it’s difficult to believe. … Excuse me, but we’ve solved this problem more than 50 years ago.”

With the supreme dismissiveness only a Frenchman can pull off, he added: “Welcome to the club of states who don’t turn their back on the sick and the poor. … If you come to France and something happens to you, you won’t be asked for your credit card before you’re rushed to the hospital.”

When Mr. Sarkozy finally came to Washington, he stopped first at the Capitol, where he met with 2004 failed presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry. There, he pledged to help enact global taxes on countries that resist steps to fight climate change.

Emphasis mine.

Did I mention the World Government crowd?

…and then making nice for the media as all diplocrites do.

With lunch finished, it was finally time to go to the White House to meet with the U.S. president. After a private meeting in the Oval Office, the two repaired to the East Room for a joint news conference, where it was all happiness and light.

Mr. Obama welcomed “my dear friend” and proceeded to call the French president by his first name eight times. “The fact that Nicolas went to Ben’s Chili Bowl for lunch, I think, shows his discriminating palate,” he said to laughter from Mr. Sarkozy. Mr. Obama, reading from notes, praised his counterpart for his “legendary energy” before ticking off a series of issues on which the two agree.

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Unlike the Obamas in Paris, the Sarkozys accepted an invitation to dine in the White House, joining the first couple in the residence for a private dinner. And the two leaders, perhaps the hatchet finally buried, left the stage together, with Mr. Obama’s arm draped around the shoulder of his smiling French counterpart.

Yes, I did mention the World Government crowd.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday praised President Obama’s health care overhaul, called his push for stricter financial regulations “great news” and, standing alongside Mr. Obama at the White House, said he hopes their administrations can team up “to go even further in regulating world capitalism.”

Mr. Sarkozy, a fierce advocate for tougher rules on global financial markets, said France will use its position next year as leader of a group of the world’s top finance ministers to push for a new economic regulatory regime.

“During the French presidency of the G-20, [Treasury Secretary] Tim Geithner, [French Finance Minister] Christine Lagarde are going to be working hand-in-glove in order to go even further in regulating world capitalism, and in particular, raising the issue of a new world international monetary order,” Mr. Sarkozy told French and American reporters gathered at the White House in a brief joint appearance.

For his part, Mr. Obama said world leaders must take actions to ensure that “reckless speculation or reckless risk-taking by a few big players in the financial markets will never again threaten the global economy or burden taxpayers.”

“I will continue to work with President Sarkozy and other world leaders to coordinate our efforts, because we want to make sure that whatever steps were taking, they are occurring on both sides of the Atlantic,” Mr. Obama said.

Mr. Sarkozy also took a moment to tell his host “how glad” France is for the U.S. that Mr. Obama’s health-care legislation passed.

Of course he did, because now the United States will be joining France and other socialist shitholes in the slide to gross economic failure.

Meanwhile, the two weasels, along with others of their ilk to be found under the large portside stone known as the European Union, will work to force other countries’ leaders to “tow the line” in the true spirit of national sovereignty-hating globalists.

An example was set back in the late 1990s, spearheaded by Bubba Clinton and his EU and UN butt buddies: What happened to Slobodin Milosevic can happen to you.

When Sarkozy was first elected, it seemed like we had a real ally in the French president. It’s a comedown to realize that all we got was another feckless French socialist.

I’ll tell you, friends, having grown up in America in the 1950s and 1960s, I’m beginning to suspect that somewhere along the line I was somehow transported to another dimension…

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6 Responses to “Obama Gets (Sar)kozy…”

  1. BB-Idaho Says:

    Now, now…I grew up in the 50s as well. Remember Charles DeGaulle? You know, pulling out of NATO, diddling in Algeria. French (spit!) Come to think of it, though, I was a nerd growing up…rocket boy (see Movie October Sky) and my memories are clearer of blowing up the neighbors clothsline posts and sticking an errant missile into the side of elderly couple’s house two blocks away. Lessee here, where was…oh
    yeah..French (spit!)

  2. Seth Says:

    BB –

    Yours was, however, the ideal up-growing for a future explosives expert.

    DeGaulle was a typical French(spit!)man, though perhaps a bit bipolar, which would explain his erratic behavior. His diddling in Algeria courtesy of Le Legion Etranger vs. his cowering in the face of the Evil Empire to the east might bear that out.

    However, it always comes back to his, like Sarkozi’s, being French(spit!).

    The old Google search “French military victories” then “I feel lucky” still leads to Page cannot be found. Did you mean “French military defeats?” :-)

  3. Always On Watch Says:

    The only thing I agree with Sarkozy on is banning the burka in France. ;)

  4. Seth Says:

    AOW –

    Amen to that!

    Otherwise, he’s just another French(spit!)man.

  5. BB-Idaho Says:

    Can’t find any French (spit!) victories?
    That’s cuz they won the Darwin Award at Agincourt:
    no brave soldiers left to procreate.
    One of those historical oddities like the Vikings:
    terrorized Europe for two hundred years…then turned into nordic socialist countries. Go figure.

  6. Seth Says:

    BB –

    That’s very worrisome, when you think about it: It seems that where Eurothink is concerned, “All roads lead to socialism” — as long as U.S. “progressives” continue to view continental butt munching as chic, sophisticated and grounds for pontification on the American meat and potato set, they’ll keep on trying to push our government to be more like zee Frahnch (speet!) govairnmaint. :-(