France has been cooing along with everyone else over the arrival of Barack Obama at the White House but the master of America's new First Dog is no longer in good odour with President Sarkozy (pictured).
Mr Sarkozy is pouring cold water on President Obama's efforts to recast American leadership on the world stage, depicting them as unoriginal, unsubstantial and overrated. Behind leaks and briefings from the Elysée Palace lies Mr. Sarkozy's irritation at the rock-star welcome that Europe gave Mr. Obama on his European tour earlier this month.
Yes, Nicolas Sarkozy really does get it - and so does the British media!
The American President's call "to free the world of the menace of a nuclear nightmare" was hot air.
"It was rhetoric – not a speech on American security policy but an export model aimed at improving the image of the United States.”
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