WHAT A MAROON ! (B. Bunny)
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
WHAT A MAROON ! (B. Bunny)
Roughly, it says, “Bendenzee ovah, mes ami”
So what if it is a mix of German and French.
Keep it up, Odumbo. The more he pulls these stunts the quicker the voter challenged will see the light.
The translation in the posted article is correct.
Either O and his staff really are this stupid, or they’re trying to get a shadow government going in France.
Oh, my gosh. This is for real. Can we recall this moron?
MAN! You just can't make this sh!t up....you know what I mean? GOD does have a sense of humor! Have some more Corn and watch the show!
And the French are reporting that, too...with a video clip!
SUN MARCH 22, 11:00 AM By James Carter in Atlanta I thank Obama because ... He finally took away my title of WORST PRESIDENT EVER. —Sincerely, Jimmy Carter
Holy cow.. I just checked it out and your right. I was absolutely sure this was satire.
yep.
I posted it Saturday and I believe that someone later in the thread verified it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211383/posts
Can’t make this stuff up, seriously.
Here is a link to the Figaro website which has the story:
It could be that he wrote Chirac to form a bond and knows he is not President. It is an incredible insult to the President of France if he wrote Chirac before the real deal.
I doubt it was addressed “Mr President” or whatever the protocol is for a letter to a Head of State.
I wonder what Hillary thinks about of all this ?
After all she is the one who will be having to deal with the screwups
Yes, he wrote to Jacques Chirac saying - “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”,
The article continues...so writes the successor of George W. Bush to the predecessor of Nicolas Sarkozy. While evoking the word of “peace”, Obama pays homage implicit to the actions of the former French president who was was opposed to the war in Iraq. An American intervention against which the future US president was opposed as senator, at the time of the vote to the Congress.
He dissed Sarkozy no matter what way one looks at it and it appears that Obama is pretending to himself that Chirac is still in charge.
Why hasn’t this gotten more publicity one might ask...thereagain...
or a skit where he writes a letter to the presidents of czechoslovokia(sorry Hadn’t seen it in years spelling may not be right) and Yugoslavia
Next he’ll be writing to Reagan, Pope John Paul, or Maggie Thatcher discussing how to deal with Russia. His teleprompter is having a hard time controlling him.
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Confidential: Barack Obama
wrote to Jacques Chirac
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Find all confidential drafting Figaro.
Barack Obama wrote to Jacques Chirac
The U.S. President has just sent a letter “very sympathetic” to Jacques Chirac, in the words of this last. “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 successor to George W. Bush Nicolas Sarkozy’s predecessor. In mentioning the word “peace,” Obama makes implicit tribute to the action of
the former French president who opposed the war in Iraq. A U.S. intervention against which the future U.S. president had opposed as a senator, in a vote in Congress. “
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ORIGINAL SOURCE LINK - SNIPPET - QUOTE:
Confidentiel : Barack Obama
a écrit à Jacques Chirac
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Retrouvez tous les confidentiels de la rédaction du Figaro.
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.
"en fait Obama répond à une lettre que Chirac lui a adressé au nom de sa Fondation pour la paix et l'environnement. ce n'est en aucun cas du dédain à l'endroit de Sarkozy. c'est dommage que l'article ne précise pas le contexte de cette lettre
which seems to be saying it's a response to the Chirac Foundation.
And they call George Bush a moron.
Yes, I considered that but still think in so doing he dissed Sarkozy. It’d be kinda like Sarkozy writing to Bush.
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