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Russian press pokes fun at Sarkozy after visit - Yahoo! News

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 Almost every newspaper began their reports of Wednesday meetings between Sarkozy and Putin with Sarkozy happily telling his host of finally achieving his dream of waking to see Red Square -- a story that appeared to leave Putin cold.

"It remains unknown whether Putin has had any such experience and whether he could truly understand his guest's feelings," the state Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily said.

The Kommersant and Izvestia dailies meanwhile irreverently wondered how Sarkozy's dream had come true, noting that the National Hotel where Sarkozy stayed did not afford the view.

The Kommersant newspaper concluded that he must have slept in a bar on Red Square.



The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 02:17:35 PM EST
If I may be serious for a moment, the psychology behind all of this is absolutely fascinating.  I don't even know where to begin.  I'm not going to psychoanalyze Putin, but it's ironic how the media chides him for acting like a Tsar but themselves act like gossipy courtiers going on about where a vistor slept last night and what jokes were told...

And to return from seriousness, I'm sure the look on Putin's face after Sarko mused about waking up in the kremlin was just deliciously cold.  hehehe

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 02:55:28 PM EST
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Can you psychoanalyse this picture?

Hint: Sarko was wearing 5 cm high heels.      



The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:13:16 PM EST
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What kind of 5cm high heels?
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:29:33 PM EST
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Maybe this kind:



"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:47:13 PM EST
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Guess this is why Sarko looks so pained in that picture!
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:49:49 PM EST
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well if it is those shoes, he's probably wrestling with Izzy for them just out of shot

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:59:15 PM EST
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He should have just worn boots and some fashionable denim. Then again I don't have a Napoleon complex.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 04:06:23 PM EST
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"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:47:45 PM EST
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During the presidential campaign, Le Canard Enchaîné pointed out he was wearing 10cm ones... have his ego-propping needs diminished?

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 07:09:55 PM EST
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