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Barack Obama a écrit à Jacques Chirac
2009-03-23
from Le Figaro:
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.
Roughly translated thanks to M & C:
Paris -US President Barack Obama has indirectly praised former French president Jacques Chirac's fierce opposition to the US-led invasion of Iraq, the online edition of the daily Le Figaro reported on Thursday. 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 as senator.
Our French-speaking readers, please help out in the comments, and thanks in advance.
Posted by:Steve White

#16  merde!
Posted by: Craimble the Imposter5967   2009-03-23 16:08  

#15  His mistake was asking Biden who the president of France was.


Posted by: DoDo   2009-03-23 15:09  

#14  The common response seems to be that Obama is an idiot. I posit that he knows exactly what he wants to do... alienate everyone and thereby weaken the US in all foreign relations. Why? Dunno - maybe he's a one-worlder and and sees the US as the main obstacle to world gov't by the UN or some such. I'd look for links to Soros.
Posted by: Whinens Bluetooth7058   2009-03-23 15:03  

#13  Wait... what? I thought Bush was supposed to be the idiot, not this guy.
Posted by: eltoroverde   2009-03-23 13:01  

#12  Now there's word that the O man had a meeting with Gorbachev.

Pissed off the:

British - check
French - check
Russians - check
Germans - working on it
Japanese - working on it
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2009-03-23 12:37  

#11  maybe next time when Sarkozy visits Obama, the Prez can give him a nice Jerry Lewis rubber mask in exchange for the case of Chateau Rothchild 1973 that Sarkozy gives Obama
Posted by: mhw   2009-03-23 11:21  

#10  Cher Barack no more, I presume.

Gah.
Posted by: Seafarious   2009-03-23 10:54  

#9  Slate's doing a "Obama gaffe of the day" column now, right?

Right?

Aren't they?

What is that sound, crickets?

Posted by: Parabellum   2009-03-23 08:49  

#8  Baraq Hussein Obama: Jerry Lewis for 21st century?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-03-23 08:48  

#7  Poor helpless bugger. Oh well, at least the French got a good laugh out of it.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-03-23 08:40  

#6  Didn't he have some press conference with Sarkozy right after his "Triumph of the Swill" speech in Berlin?

I breathlessly await the moment he confuses Austria and Australia.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-03-23 08:34  

#5  Oui, M. le Ver.
Posted by: Spot   2009-03-23 08:23  

#4  Apparently, the staff lost the letter from Sarkosy, congatulating The One on his election. That was in November, after all...
Posted by: Bobby   2009-03-23 08:01  

#3  JFM, apparently O'man and his closed circle get all their information from that same MSM, so why should we all be surprised that they don't have a grasp on reality outside of journalism school's best and brightest. Remember in journalism, the narrative trumps truth.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-03-23 07:31  

#2  Obama upsets Sarkozy With Letter to Jacques Chirac

Didn't the MSM say us that Bush was the moron and Obama a bright guy?
Posted by: JFM   2009-03-23 02:36  

#1  ObamaUpsets Sarkozy With Letter to Jacques Chirac
French newspaper Le Figaro is horrified at the faux pas. And, current French President Sarkozy was appparently upset with the letter.
Europumas and Free Republic has the latest:

Now Obama has insulted French President Sarkozy!

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.
Posted by: tipper   2009-03-23 01:50  

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