French President Sarkozy’s dismissive remarks about President Obama got picked up in the right-wing press in the US. But actually, in a free-ranging (and one imagines perhaps also well-lubricated) chat with reporters, Sarkozy dumped on the record with pretty much every head of government in Europe.
It’s not every head of state who gets to divorce his wife, have a nervous breakdown and marry a super-model during his first few months in office.
