Hold the Freedom Fries. The new French President-elect François Hollande wants the world to know that he speaks English—better than proudly pro-American Nicolas Sarkozy—and isn’t out to “make things difficult for Barack Obama” on issues like Afghanistan.
“Yes, I speak English, more fluently than the former president. But a French president has to speak French!” Hollande told Slate.fr—in English—in a wide-ranging interview published one day after he beat Sarkozy in a runoff election.
The Socialist was to meet with Obama next week before two important international summits: a G8 gathering sure to focus on ways to pull the world economy out of its slump, and a NATO meeting to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan.
Hollande said he saw potential areas of agreement with Obama on economic issues and praised the American president for charting a different foreign-policy course than his predecessor.
“I will therefore assert France’s independence without making things difficult for Barack Obama,” said the new French leader.
Read More at news.yahoo.com. By Olivier Knox.
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To commies together just what we need.How long before our Jig ask for money to bail out this French Buffoon.I hope all the rich move out except for the Americans like Depp so Hollande gets it stuck up his frog ass and takes Odumbo with him.
I think they left a letter out of the headline, it should have read "IT Won’t Be ‘Difficult’ For Obama". He will have no remorse forcing Socialism on the American people because that was and still is his major objective.