Sarkozy Has Some Obama Envy

Obama envy. It's going around. Did you see Hugo Chavez's move to get in a photo with Obama? Some of these world leaders are so.... emotional. And they're largely men, competing with each other to be top dog. You can see the testosterone flexing their muscles. I don't think women, if we had more women leaders, would behave in the same manner. In fact, the world would be better off with women leading. It's a biological thing. But men know this, which is why they've tried throughout the centuries to keep women out of power. Anyway, I'm off on a tangent. 

NYT: Mr. Obama, according to Mr. Sarkozy, “has a subtle mind, very intelligent and very charismatic. But he was elected two months ago and never ran a ministry in his life. He doesn’t have a position on a number of things.” Mr. Obama “is not always operating at a level of decision-making and efficiency,” according to the voluble Mr. Sarkozy.

Mr. Obama appeared unprepared on climate change when they met, according to Mr. Sarkozy, who told the legislators, “I told him, ‘I don’t think that you have quite understood what we are doing on carbon dioxide.’ ”

In the magazine L’Express, Mr. Sarkozy was quoted as joking about Mr. Obama’s sanctified image. Pressed by Mr. Sarkozy, Mr. Obama agreed to visit France in June for the anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

“I am going to ask him to walk on the Channel, and he’ll do it,” Mr. Sarkozy reportedly said.