Throw This One Into the "We Can't Ever Seem to Catch a Break" File

So, French President Nicholas Sarkozy spoke to a joint session of Congress yesterday.

Here's a transcript of this extraordinary, well-written and moving speech. Go and read it in its entirety. It's really rather amazing.

Yet...here's the headline from this morning's Financial Times:

"Sarkozy Calls For a Strong Dollar Policy."

Sarkozy ended his speech with this:

{...}Long live the United States of America!

Vive la France!

Long live French-American friendship!

I can understand the inclination to disregard large chunks of this speech simply because it was apparently tailor-made for the audience to whom Sarkozy was speaking, but considering Sarkozy has done a complete one-eighty from his predecessor's policies toward this country, I don't think the one paragraph, in a four page speech, where he talked about the weak dollar should have been the lede.

Posted by Kathy at November 8, 2007 09:55 AM | TrackBack