Heart-ache: No kiss for Obama from Sarkozy’s wife
posted at 6:56 pm on April 3, 2009 by Allahpundit
The Daily Mail wonders, did he snub her or did she snub him? Given that she used to be a supermodel, I’m guessing he didn’t snub her.
Politics ends at the water’s edge, my friends. When it comes to the president of the United States getting a kiss from the world’s hottest first lady, we stand united.
It is usual in France to greet one another with a kiss – but the best Mr Obama could get out of a suddenly flustered Carla Bruni was a handshake.
Ms Bruni appeared to lean in to kiss the president’s cheek as she greeted him on his arrival in Strasbourg for a Nato summit today.
But when Mr Obama did not seem to reciprocate, she hesitated then quickly backtracked, settling for the handshake and a smile instead.
Hard to tell from the vid. A tough day for Mrs. S overall, it seems, as the media’s decided she lost her fashion showdown with Michelle Obama. And to think, Howie Kurtz finds their coverage of her a tad gushy.









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for the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of the first lady
Ris4victory on April 3, 2009 at 6:59 PM
To hell with protocol, Barry didn’t want to be brained by Michelle in front of his adoring sheep.
hillbillyjim on April 3, 2009 at 7:01 PM
No French Kiss? She probably didn’t want to be given an Ipod.
portlandon on April 3, 2009 at 7:01 PM
The last person he kissed before Michelle Obama was Frank Marshall Davis. Obama is bi.
marklmail on April 3, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Nobody worries about offending droids….
“That’s cause droids don’t rip arms off like Word does buddy”
-Han McCain
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Barack Obama, the World’s greatest Orator. Let’s talk about the first lady instead of listening to the first teleprompter stutter.
thanks to American Thinker and the Guardian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojeTr9P7ax4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fapostolicfriendsforum%2Ecom%2Fshowthread%2Ephp%3Fp%3D731498%23post731498&feature=player_embedded
The first lady is not very pretty but she is prettier than the first orators presentations
seven on April 3, 2009 at 7:04 PM
As I watched the President’s town hall in France, I thought damn, this guy is a better politician than President Clinton.
Then I saw the French women grab him :
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UQPUzwdX51o/SdaVxHo7LAI/AAAAAAAAALM/Obfp8mUjJsk/s1600-h/article-1166637-04443058000005DC-536_634x458.jpg
New dawg.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Mrs. S was told what happened to Vera Baker.
portlandon on April 3, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Racist!
TheBigOldDog on April 3, 2009 at 7:05 PM
She’s just lucky Hillary isn’t still First Lady or she’d lose that title. Hillary Clinton? Oh so sexy.
amerpundit on April 3, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Evidentally Mrs. S. knows evil when she sees it.
milwife88 on April 3, 2009 at 7:06 PM
I guess the French PM has a crappy protocol office too. Musn’t. Kiss. The Messiah.
landshark on April 3, 2009 at 7:06 PM
You can’t blame him for trying, given what he’s used to…
Wethal on April 3, 2009 at 7:06 PM
She’s probably a racist. If France is going to be racist about our president, we should bomb them.
frankj on April 3, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Ms. Bruni just saved Barry’s life.
Frozen Tex on April 3, 2009 at 7:07 PM
The French first lady is Not racist.
seven on April 3, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Any video of Obama deep waist bowing to Sarkozy? No? Next election cycles maybe Sarkozy can throw a couple hundred million Obama’s way and get a bow.
TheBigOldDog on April 3, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Michelle’s patchwork argyle sweater in yesterday’s photos was dreadful, but that old-lady house dress she’s wearing in these photos is one of the ugliest things I’ve ever seen. (Carla Bruni’s beige-y thing is serious Ugly, though.)
(Since the MSM is so obsessed with MO’s alleged fashion sense, catty remarks are on-topic.)
obladioblada on April 3, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Racist!
TheBigOldDog on April 3, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Sarkozy is looking forward to watching his new DVD of Pepé Le Pew cartoons.
Mark1971 on April 3, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Michelle’s inaugural suit looked like she cut up her mother’s drapes. This looks like she cut up a sofa cover – left over from the 1970s.
Wethal on April 3, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Obama says that all nukes should be removed from the world ?
William Amos on April 3, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Au contraire mon ami, Old Jerry Lewis Movies…
TheBigOldDog on April 3, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Carla rocks!
Obama pox.
profitsbeard on April 3, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Didn’t want to let her ruin his messiahness
Defector01 on April 3, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Bigger heartache. Mark Sanford to accept Stimulus funds
William Amos on April 3, 2009 at 7:13 PM
I love the purple dress without the overcoat. It was beautiful. She even made a former supermodel look ordinary in the shot of them together. I’m so glad the US is glamorous again.
dcwvu on April 3, 2009 at 7:14 PM
And that was just the press…
Kensington on April 3, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Wow.
Kensington on April 3, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Dumb and Dumber.
omnipotent on April 3, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Spit or swallow?
omnipotent on April 3, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Oh was not aware that Michelle Obama was a protected species here at HotAir….
so the bats can denigrate Palin ’til the cows come home but when we finally bust out counterbattery at Michelle “no insults will be counetneced” Obama that is a bridge too far mister?
Clarification plz?
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:17 PM
America slipped down a notch the moment Hussein and his wife stepped off the plane,….Hussein is a walking narcissistic tool! TOTUS!
christene on April 3, 2009 at 7:17 PM
I have NO idea who is in charge of the outfits for mo, but they stink! Gads, I have more taste in my mouth than those who are doing her fashions. Ms. S has some idea how to dress, ours doesn’t.
L
letget on April 3, 2009 at 7:17 PM
It looks as though Obama was very uncomfortable with the entire greeting sequence. He hesitated while greeting the President and it got worse with the President’s wife. She didn’t snub, he just flubbed.
Zaire67 on April 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Bambi REJECTED
Matt Helm on April 3, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Don’t be shocked. Most liberal idiots use People magazine as their education for world politics with the occasional glance at USA Today – the purple section.
sherry on April 3, 2009 at 7:21 PM
The refreshing thing is they don’t even pretend they are not trying to be political anymore….
and if they airbrushed anymore on her than they do she could pass for Marilyn Monroe or Diana Ross…
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:23 PM
It’s easy to see that Hot Air is a chick driven website with it’s silly stories about touching and kisses. What’s next…stories about what someone is wearing or perhaps governmental dating tips? I’m outta here. Going to sift through my Dirty Harry collection…..
Braindroppings on April 3, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Am I watching the Oscar Awards or something to do with President O’Prompter? Hard to tell these days.
therightwinger on April 3, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Not sure what the story is on that. I would hope that the two women would be treated similarly. If the mods have decreed a safe zone around the One’s Wife while simultaneously declaring open season on Palin, then there’s a fundamental disconnect here.
Matt Helm on April 3, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Bingo.
+1
bluelightbrigade on April 3, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Maybe Barry thought he would cop hell from Michelle if he kissed her. Either that or perhaps Barry’s unresolved issues about his white mother got the better of him.
Dreadnought223 on April 3, 2009 at 7:28 PM
will make me deeply ponder whether the site is “conservative” at all…
SnarkVader can spew whatever he/sh(e)/it wants at Sarah but Michelle “who shall not be insulted” Obama is offlimits….
only thing I can think of is that we are seeing that ANY sarcasm, mockery, or disagreement with the dynamic duo MUST be race based I suppose…
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Typical white woman.
omnipotent on April 3, 2009 at 7:31 PM
also Allah was I hallucinating or were attacks on Laura Bush tolerated far better….
“crazy drunk fool who runs over folks” as I recall lurking versus “finally I am proud of my country”???
I’d really appreciate some hard guidelines of the Michelle Obama wildlife preserve so I don’t accidentally get myself banned….
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:31 PM
As I said in one of the Headlines threads this morning, you’re perfectly free to dump on M.O. I simply want people to stay away from the quasi-racial stuff by comparing her physically to beasts, just like I don’t want anyone calling Palin “white trash.” If you want to call M.O. a moron or whatever, have at it.
Allahpundit on April 3, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Nothing to see here. Move along.
portlandon on April 3, 2009 at 7:31 PM
I prefer Bruni’s “horizontal” networking to Michelle using her husband’s racial networking to get a do-nothing job at a hospital.
Speedwagon82 on April 3, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Vive le Socialisme! I did notice Obama kissed the mister, but not the ex-model. Hmmm.
RedRedRice on April 3, 2009 at 7:32 PM
And also, I’m terribly sorry if I’m constraining your desire to engage in “counterbattery,” which is precisely what it is. If you’re itching to act like a conservative dKos commenter, I’m sure Free Republic can accommodate you.
Allahpundit on April 3, 2009 at 7:32 PM
But did he speak French, as he lectured Americans to start learning? And would someone please tell Mrs. Obama that she should stop wearing the curtains around in public? They might get dirty, or something.
Seixon on April 3, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Hey Allah, what about THE WALL threatening to punch me in the face and smash my head into the concrete? How about a banning?
“Right back at you dude. In fact, if you live in socal, we could arrange for a meeting so I could, uh, explain how I really feel about you in person.
Two hits:
1) My fist to your face
2) Your head to the pavement.
CHEERS!!
The Wall on April 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM”
http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=35879
portlandon on April 3, 2009 at 7:35 PM
I stand united with Carla Bruni.
INC on April 3, 2009 at 7:36 PM
No offense you just seem to have the usual case of “moderator blindness”….
happens all the time…..
so when Sarah Palin is accused of faking a pregnancy by comments here it somehow is not “past any line” whereas comparing Michelle Obama to a character played by a black male, or better yet to a black male basketball player we are “over the line”….?
You do get that the newsies are in all earnestness trying to sell Michelle “who shall not be insulted” Obama as being prettier than Jackie O….?
The same newsies that denigrated Palin as a beauty queen chillbilly bimbo?
Michelle “who shall not be insulted” Obama has had one serious job besides communitay organizing and that was a
make work quid pro quo job that was so vital it was eliminated after the payoff er uh “service” was no longer needed….
as opposed to Sarah Palin who is actually you know an elected governor….
remember how Michelle “who shall not be insulted nor seen speaking for weeks after gaffeing” vanished for six weeks?
Was easy on the eyes friend.
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:39 PM
In fairness to AP he has probably gotten pressure from the professional grievance mongerers we have here representing our good buddies from across the aisle….
that said I find it particularly amusing that AP has a mad-on suddenly for hard humor at female political leaders….guess he had an epiphany after Palin lost….
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:41 PM
This wasn’t a snub. It’s just another case of Obama not knowing Protocol.
- The Cat
MirCat on April 3, 2009 at 7:42 PM
+1
she stood that close and didn’t hurl….
the Sarkozy family is about as conservative as you can be in Fwance…
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:42 PM
You gotta open your mouth and wiggle your tongue a little so she will get the hint.
paulsur on April 3, 2009 at 7:45 PM
I honestly do believe Allah is fair. I enjoy all of his other posts. No Sarc/. But somewhere along the way, objectivity re: Palin got lost. I have NO problem with Allah on anything else.
portlandon on April 3, 2009 at 7:45 PM
at least she didn’t wear the drapes….
must be careful…not proper to mock the newsies calling her a fashion icon……
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:46 PM
She didn’t want any part of those Obambi lips after they touched the rectum of Hu Jintao and Medvyedev (nee Putin). She knows that commies are the most herpetic scaliwags. Bright girl.
Western_Civ on April 3, 2009 at 7:47 PM
I blame that Dove soap commercial for making stupid people think fat chicks are hot.
Speedwagon82 on April 3, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Everything went well here. I’m not seeing anything newsworthy. Mrs. S talked briefly and cordially with each Obama. Women here in American cheek-kiss more often than men, so there’s nothing noteworthy there either.
Since I’m not a fashion freak, both women seemed well dressed — I do have to admit I like solids rather than prints, so Mrs. S gets the nod there.
I’d rather save my true outrage for Mr. Obama’s bow to King Abdullah.
unclesmrgol on April 3, 2009 at 7:48 PM
indeed…I do not agree with him but mostyly respect him….the thing is that on this issue his slip shows and what I mean by that is he will allow attacks on Palin because he either agrees with them(not in intensity AP just attacking her) or does not want to be seen as “stifling speech”, like a lot of “moderates” he is more than willing to hammer “speech” from his own side….
seen it at many a conservative site….part of why the bats are winning the cyber scrum.
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Gaffetastic happens so often that it covers for most of Bambi’s biggies….
the latest spin is “he was cleaning the floor”….
um “yeah”
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:49 PM
did he bow?
Jamson64 on April 3, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Are you calling him Homobama? That is so not nice. No bailout for you!
Western_Civ on April 3, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Need new batteries for my keyboard my all too often typos are increasing.
AP I am not calling you out beyond saying “a touch of hypocrisy”(your right as it is your place) and that you are possibly encouraging folks to run crying to teacher a bit more than I’d like….
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Nobody wants to see your drooling.
capitalist piglet on April 3, 2009 at 7:55 PM
if I could only figure out a way to have rage take the place of exercise I’d welcome the troll patrol….
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Thrush?
Feedie on April 3, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Indeed….if even “conservative sites” buy into the “any ‘excess’ mockery is RACIST” meme we’re screwed….
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 7:58 PM
The huge part of the story is the way the media is trying to make Michelle O into the next Jackie Kennedy and a fashion icon. Just their saying so is not going to make it so.
AP quoted this:
I read an article on that earlier today and I decided the media has lost their mind. Has Europe forgotten Princess Grace and Diana?
M.O. has got to stop with the big, loud flowers. It does not work. Her dress that was shown later is much better than the coat, but I still do not like the cut.
I loved the color Carla Bruni brought to her grey coat by carrying a periwinkle blue handbag. Ignore the commentary (I can’t believe they called this clash of the fashion titans, what are they thinking?) and scroll down for the picture.
There is no comparison. Carla looks terrific and appropriately dressed.
INC on April 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Hate to break it to you all, but the freepers had the narcissistic pattern of o-vomit down tight over a year ago, and no one listened. Yet they get bashed here like they are lesser beings. Just this week on HA this same issue is slowly being born, and everyone is now seeing the light, like it’s a new theory. Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm
Ris4victory on April 3, 2009 at 8:04 PM
France , England and Germany was nothing but love for the Obamas.
They did us proud.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 8:08 PM
my second or third rant here was about not being able to go through the tabloid aisle at the market without being lectured at the Ogabe collective greatness….
but yeah treating Freepers as scum rather than a useful tool to use against the Ogabe cult is funny.
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 8:12 PM
She didn’t kiss him because he is the Messiah.
And we all know who kissed the Messiah last time, don’t we?
She just felt it was not good protocol to kiss a GOD.
So lay off the woman.
NOT!
Sapwolf on April 3, 2009 at 8:12 PM
uh um er uh um uh uh um ah er ah…..
sven10077 on April 3, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Should you wish to see grace and class in a First Lady, you need look no further than Laura Bush.
End of discussion.
irongrampa on April 3, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Laauurraaaa!
Sigh.
She will always be a sweetheart. I could quit alcohol too with a woman like that, maybe even be POTUS.
Sapwolf on April 3, 2009 at 8:20 PM
OH no..no..no. Obama is every bit the politician Clinton was.
100% dependent on media adoration,paparazzi tours,and political associates to help him cover up his failures and scandals with the help of the democratic activists that call themselves journalist.
Because when you look at reality and the facts on the ground,Obama accomplishes little to nothing:
Nothing but recycled Bush speak
Aijaz Zaka Syed | Arab News
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=121129&d=3&m=4&y=2009
So much for all that “Hope and Change”.But I am sure they just loooooooooved what Michelle wore.
How did Mr. Hope and Change do on one of the most pressing issues in the middle east that could result in all out war in the region if Iran’s nuclear weapons program is not halted:
Iran denies US reports of warm talks at conference
http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090402/twl-ml-iran-us-ef375f8.html?printer=1
By NASSER KARIMI and BRIAN MURPHY,Associated Press Writers AP – Thursday, April 2
Combined with this response from Mr. 57 states youtube performance:
Dam#,it was a good thing Obama is there instead of the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEvil Bush.What major progress getalife.
I mean the Iranians went from condemning America and calling for our deaths under Bush to …well…condemning America and calling for our deaths.
But this is just a distraction.What is important is that some woman tried to kiss Obama.
UNNNNNNNNNNNNBELIVABLE!!!! what progress,the world is much safer now.
But now that the world loves us so much,well surely they will step up and start sharing the responsibilities of their NATO commitments:
Europeans Reluctant to Follow Obama on Afghan Initiative
By Edward Cody
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, April 3, 2009; A08
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/02/AR2009040203727_pf.html
300 troops to train.
Whoa!!!!Bush could have never accomplished such a feat!!
It’s almost like the rest of the world is bucking their commitments and responsibilities because of political pressures at home and a lack of will, not because of the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEvil Bush.
N. Korea is set to launch a long range missile that will cause serious problems for stability for the region.
The G20 set nothing but arbitrary, non-binding agreements of regulation and controls but came on strong when deciding to take our money for their “plans”.
But serious actions that produce results don’t matter to the super smart liberals like getalife.
What matters to the useful idiots is that they are loved,have lots of pictures taken,and pour on the comparisons to past real leaders while discussing fashion 24/7.
Yea, Obama is everything Clinton was.
a useless hustler with a fawning media to make cover for him.
Baxter Greene on April 3, 2009 at 8:22 PM
“greeted by …crowds lining the street.” ?
Looks like just gobs of press and secret service lining the street to me. Maybe extra secret service were needed to guard the presidential sofa slipcovers being worn by Ms. O?
LASue on April 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM
How can Carla lose a fashion showdown with a woman dressed like a Chinese madam?
Crusty on April 3, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Although he’s ‘clean,’ he probably smelled of basketball, or the beautiful babe knows how democrats’ tongues taste and didn’t want any part of it. Blame Clinton for this one! Poor democrats are just creeps when not masturbating in the basement.
apco on April 3, 2009 at 8:31 PM
This media’s enormous focus on the fashion of these women smacks of worshiping royalty, disgusting.
echosyst on April 3, 2009 at 8:32 PM
She does the hand wipe thing again. Same as she did with the queen.
canklespotter on April 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM
I agree. Michelle looks like she’s wearing the drapes my grandmother used to have in her parlor back in the 1950s.
Deanna on April 3, 2009 at 8:47 PM
That isn’t true. Philippe de Villiers is much better.
aengus on April 3, 2009 at 8:54 PM
When Mrs. Sarko complimented Michelle’s dress, Michelle replied, “Oh, this? I saw it in the window & couldn’t resist!”
jgapinoy on April 3, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Adding class to HotAir, are we?
jgapinoy on April 3, 2009 at 9:00 PM
*rimshot*
Mallard T. Drake on April 3, 2009 at 9:12 PM
I really hate the whole topic of protocol and snubs. It’s shallow and stupid. No one snubbed anyone. It’s just that no one wants to do the wrong thing in front of the camera. B. F. D.
Ted Torgerson on April 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Didn’t look to me that she got close enough for a kiss. I htink she deliberately did not do so – to her credit!
IrishEyes on April 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM
“think”
IrishEyes on April 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Barry wasn’t man enough to go in for the kiss. He hesitated, he vacillated, he procrastinated. He lost the opportunity. He is pure Beta male material. That does not bode well for the world.
keep the change on April 3, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Michelle Obama, you want to know what you are? Huh? Huh? You don’t, I do, everyone does… you’re a moron!
Not much of a ring to that, now is there?
Tuco on April 3, 2009 at 10:04 PM
You all do know that if I had not been so much better an actor than Michelle Obama that she would have gotten the role I got in that movie instead of me. She almost beat me out as it was.
Tuco on April 3, 2009 at 10:09 PM
After seeing the vid. She leaned into him to hear what he was saying because of the background noise. I dont think it was to give a smooch. I bet he was disappointed :(
Greed on April 3, 2009 at 10:19 PM
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