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Why Is a World Leader Distancing Himself From President Obama?
Fox News ^ | 23 Oct | Bret Baier

Posted on 10/25/2009 9:05:50 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is reportedly growing increasingly frustrated with the Obama administration. A Reuters analysis piece says Sarkozy is shifting his focus from the U.S. to other international allies.

Didier Billion of the Institute of International & Strategic Relations says: “Sarkozy has clearly been thrown off course in his relations with America.” Another foreign affairs expert, Bruno Tertrais from the Foundation for Strategic Research, adds: "There is an annoyance about what the French see as naivety in the Obama administration."

One major sticking point has been President Obama’s softer stance on Iran, while President Sarkozy prefers a more hawkish approach. Sarkozy said last month: “I support America’s outstretched hand. But what has the international community gained from these offers of dialogue? Nothing but more enriched uranium and centrifuges."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chuckposts; france; obama; sarkozy
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What can you do when even the French say you’re naive?

He’s not naive at all of course. He’s just pushing anti-American policies, that’s all.

1 posted on 10/25/2009 9:05:50 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: chuck_the_tv_out; Shimmer1

When did naïveté become naivety?


2 posted on 10/25/2009 9:07:21 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 276 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Well, there is tht old saying...10 million Frenchmen cannot be wrong...or something to that effect—neither can one aware Frenchman be wrong in such an obvious case.


3 posted on 10/25/2009 9:09:31 AM PDT by gunnyg (Just An Old Gunny ~ And *Still* Not A F'en Commie Basterd!)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
Because Sarkozy recognizes the following and wants nothing to do with it:


OBAMA IS A MARXIST IDEOLOGUE

4 posted on 10/25/2009 9:10:56 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Hate it when I agree with the leader of France, having given up on my own President. Go Sarko. Stand up for the free world, because our guy is too busy going around telling the world that our country sucks.


5 posted on 10/25/2009 9:13:27 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
Sarkozy is misguided looking to uranium, centrifuges, etc. Has nothing to do with the real world issue - how to look cool. Outstretched hand, in Obama's opinion, helps a lot in striking that pose.
6 posted on 10/25/2009 9:16:13 AM PDT by alecqss
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
Why Is a World Leader Distancing Himself From President Obama?

Why? Because zero is a moron...and the rest of the world knows it...not just Sarkozy.

7 posted on 10/25/2009 9:19:40 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: alecqss

Smug, you forgot the all important smugness. The French used to have that one but zero has surpassed them.


8 posted on 10/25/2009 9:19:47 AM PDT by allmost
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Amazing when you out-French the French.


9 posted on 10/25/2009 9:23:29 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: null and void

“When did naïveté become naivety?”

Why does English have dots & slashes in a handful of cases?!

Words get anglicized. Half of the language was originally some other language. Why do we retain the foreign-ness in the modern cases?

Because of dictionaries, IMO. Dictionaries have turned the language into a more static, less interesting thing - we take those as the arbiters of language when they should only be a reflection.


10 posted on 10/25/2009 9:26:48 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: GoldenPup

Remember Sarko’s quote?
“Est il faible?”

Many thought it meant, “Is he weak?” But there’s another, much more apt translation of “faible.” And that is “feeble-minded!”
I also get a kick out of the pics of Zero in the foreground, and Sarko in the background, laughing at zero’s behavior.


11 posted on 10/25/2009 9:29:03 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: null and void

Hmm, let me think.....I think it was last Tues, about 3 in the afternoon, but then I’m naive (and I don’t know where to go to use that special I and e)


12 posted on 10/25/2009 9:29:34 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Navy Mom)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Reminds me of - what it Chris Rock’ comedy bit? “The world’s gone crazy....the best rapper is a white man, the best basketball player is Chinese....”(I forget the rest) but he could add...”and France is more of a champion of freedom than America.” Sad days we’re living in.


13 posted on 10/25/2009 9:33:05 AM PDT by madmominct ("Liberalism is a slow road to despotism." -- The Great One, Mark Levin)
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Why does English have dots & slashes in a handful of cases?!

Because we have trouble spelling diaeresis and accent egg-ooh!

14 posted on 10/25/2009 9:34:22 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

All that Obamaloon “experience” is showing. Experience, that is, in crime, corruption, cheating, hiding one’s shoddy records (in both school and politics), shady friends (tax cheats, Pentagon bombers, communists)...etc, etc, etc.

Sure glad we didn’t elect that silly Sarah Palin who merely overthrew her party’s machine almost single handed. And was a governer...(vs a senator, which is right next to a t*rd in the pantheon of achievement).


15 posted on 10/25/2009 9:38:26 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
Zero and his controllers are no longer reliable (regardless of whatever common ground they may have with other governments) and they are reducing the United States to the status of a resource cow to be milked by others.

No one fears a cow, and no one believes a lying dairyman.

Mr. niteowl77

16 posted on 10/25/2009 9:42:25 AM PDT by niteowl77 (You wanted him, and now you have got him. I say, "Good day to you," America.)
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To: Shimmer1

I have a few spares.

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17 posted on 10/25/2009 9:43:51 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 276 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Maybe rather than blustering, buster, you can coördinate a committee to remove accents from the matériel of the English language...


18 posted on 10/25/2009 9:48:45 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 276 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
He’s just pushing anti-American policies, that’s all.

Naïveté coupled with arrogance, aggravated by ignorance will do the trick.

19 posted on 10/25/2009 9:55:41 AM PDT by melancholy (Hey Marxists, don't Crap & Tread on me. Zer0's defeat is now in progress.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

More “mendatious” than feeble-minded.


20 posted on 10/25/2009 9:55:45 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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