would YOU be a little late leaving the Mile-High Club?
Posted on 11/11/2008 1:09:14 PM PST by americanophile
Children cheered, bugles sounded and the Prince of Wales inspected the French guard, but an air of improvisation tinged the pageantry today at President Sarkozy's ceremony at Verdun to mark the Great War armistice. It would have helped if Mr Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, his wife, had arrived on time to mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. But the silence came at 11.10 after their helicopter brought them late to Douaumont, the hillside monument at the site of France's most murderous battle of the Great War. Other hiccups ruffled the smooth flow of a windswept cemetery spectacle that Mr Sarkozy designed to give visual impact to a chapter in history that is fading from living memory. Speaking outside the monumental ossuary that contains the unidentified remains of 130,000 French and German soldiers, Mr Sarkozy hailed Britain's sacrifice in the war. "France will never forget the English, Scottish and Irish soldiers who fought on our soil as if it was their own," he said. There was no mention of the Welsh, whose Prince was standing six feet away with the Duchess of Cornwall. The couple had turned up along with Quentin Bryce, the Australian Governor-General and the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, to take part in Mr Sarkozy's break with the tradition of Paris-based remembrance days. Mr Sarkozy also hailed Australia, New Zealand and the United States but the Elysée Palace irked the Australians by spelling Ms Bryce's name wrong in the programme distributed to ministers, ambassadors and dignitaries.
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Too bad, I kinda like the Sark.
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Someday maybe freepers will figure out that being a "french conservative" does not mean the person shares the views of American conservatives. Hillary's probably "right wing" by French standards.
Don't bother to bring any of this stuff up on the "current events" threads about Sarko though. They're really not interested in analyzing his actual record in office. Those threads should be renamed "Sarko cheerleader club"
He’s conservative in France! Which means 25 degrees left of center.
Let Chuck wait, he’s got nothing else to do.
He has done nothing for his whole life but receive things that were handed to him.
It’s not like he’s actually got a job or anything.
A man who has nothing to do has got all the time in the world.
He thought he had just enough time for a quickie.
I’m still mad at Sarkozy for making that rude phone call to Sarah Palin.
would YOU be a little late leaving the Mile-High Club?
Well he does have a French screen-name. That may explain it.
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