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Sarkozy and Obama bitch about Netanyahu

  • 08-11-2011 12:21pm
    #1
    MungBean
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    French president called Israeli PM a liar in exchange with US president inadvertently shared with journalists
    The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, described the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, as a "liar" in a private exchange with Barack Obama at last week's G20 summit in Cannes that was inadvertently broadcast to journalists.


    "I cannot stand him. He's a liar," Sarkozy told Obama. The US president responded by saying: "You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day."


    Neither leader apparently realised that microphones that had been attached for a press conference had already been switched on, allowing journalists waiting for a press conference to hear the conversation.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/08/sarkozy-obama-netanyahu-gaffe-microphone


    Dont know if it normalises the men themselves or detracts from the offices they hold when leaders speak this frankly while chatting in private.


Comments

  • #2
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Yo Blair


  • #3
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Political Leaders are people.

    People chat off the record in every walk of life.

    Anyone with any knowledge of history knows that Israel is a hard line dope of a country that does not negotiate and is committing genocide on a grand scale while its allies in the US sit on their hands. Obama may find it distasteful in private but he will sit on his hands in Public as he needs to political capital at home.


  • #4
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    "You're always going on about Binyamin Netanyahu. Let it go, Obama, you're never going to meet him."


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