“I want to tell the American people that the French people are their friends,” he said. “We are not simply allies. We are friends. I am proud of being a friend of the Americans. You know, I am saying this to The New York Times, but I have said it to the French, which takes a little more courage and is a little more difficult. I have never concealed my admiration for American dynamism, for the fluidity of American society, for its ability to raise people of different identities to the very highest levels.”

Mr. Sarkozy, who has been accused of being too enamored of all things American, said he considered France and the United States to be on equal footing and somehow better than many others, because they believe that their values are universal and therefore destined to “radiate” throughout the world. The Germans, the Spaniards, the Italians, the Chinese, by contrast, do not think that way, he said.

Mr. Sarkozy defended his decision to summer in America, and not somewhere in France, saying, “I don’t see why I should have given up going to the United States because a small part of the French elite professes an anti-Americanism that in no way corresponds to what the French people think — in no way at all.”

(Aparte, j'espere que vous avez bien retenu le mot du jour: Junte. Les journalistes on appris un nouveau mot, moi j'attend surtout de voir qui fera quoi...)

Il va nous en falloir du courage pour tenir 5 ans avec autant de conneries par jour, aussi bien du cote de l'Etat que du cote journalistique.

Vivement 2012 (devinez qui a achete http://www.sarkozy2012.com/ ?)