Bush : Sarkozy “the latest incarnation of Elvis”

[tocqueville]

Bush flatters Sarkozy as French Elvis

Thu Apr 3, 2008 9:23am EDT

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - It’s “Love me tender” between the United States and France after President George W. Bush compared French President Nicolas Sarkozy with rock’n'roll singer Elvis Presley.

Bush told NATO leaders at a Bucharest summit on Thursday that when Sarkozy visited the United States recently, he was seen as “the latest incarnation of Elvis”.

Such an example of “Burning love” marks a sea change from the “Suspicious minds” that clouded Franco-American relations under Sarkozy’s predecessor, Jacques Chirac, who often seemed to see Washington as “The devil in disguise”.

Bush has made clear the diminutive French leader, who recently married another singer, Carla Bruni, is now his “Good luck charm” and “My little friend”.

Sarkozy has shown he is “All shook up” by heaping praise on Bush as the first U.S. leader to understand the need for a strong European defense.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0377337920080403?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

[Wickerman]

1. I'm not seeing it

but then, I never know what the fuck Bush is talking about

[annabanana]

2. B*shCo: Creating Diplomatic Puchbowl Turds since Jan. 2001

None finer or more numerous. . .

[TomInTib]

3. Ohhhh..... Noooooo.....

Just when you think it could not possibly get any worse.

Goodness, what an idiot.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. So Sarkozy praised Bush?

I have a feeling that someone can wrap the Chimp around their little finger by a few well-placed words of praise, given Bush's giant-sized ego.

[Lautremont]

5. Maybe Bush and Sarkozy can dump this world leader thing and "do the clam"

down in a "beach shack" instead. That would lead to a great Republican "spinout" and we'd surely see "a little less conversation" from them about how great a leader bush is.

The only Elvis role I really want to see Bush do is "Jailhouse Rock."

[tanyev]

6. Good luck charm? My little friend?

What is it with GWB's pathological need to diminish people?

[enid602]

7. Sarkozy

Sarkozy - 'Bush the latest incarnation of Petain, Marcel Marceau and Quasimoto, all rolled into one!'

[ProgressiveFool]

8. "my little friend"????

I can just see it now, Sarkozy back at the White House for another round of Hot Dogs, and Bush introduces him to the gathering with, "Say hello to my little friend."

[hisownpetard]

10. Thank God Toulouse-Lautrec is not still alive...

[tocqueville]

9. quoting the real Elvis I would say...

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
cryin' all the time.
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
cryin' all the time.
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit
and you ain't no friend of mine.

When they said you was high classed,
well, that was just a lie.
When they said you was high classed,
well, that was just a lie.
You ain't never caught a rabbit
and you ain't no friend of mine.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. "So we wonder, we wonder bout you"

Note to Sarky Sark: Do Not Shave Head.