BERLUSCONI: ‘Young, beautiful and tanned is a compliment.’
OBAMA: Yeah, so is ‘Old Jerk’!
[Courrier International, France]
The ripples of Barack Obama’s rise continue to be felt across the world. In France, a petition calling for major changes in how French and Europeans think of race – and a call to forcibly open up the political process – is circulating. And France’s first lady, former ‘super model’ Carla Bruni-Sarkozy – a former Italian – has written this article in Le Journal du Dimanche au Quotidienin in support of the manifesto [which we will post later today or tomorrow].
First Lady Sarkozy says in part:
“Power has often had the same face: White men of a certain age. Our habits, in the end, have turned into sclerosis! We must help the elite to change … or force them a little, because psychology alone won’t do. … The voters are ready. I think the political parties are ready to accept the imposition of certain standards, a charter or a pact. The Obama effect should propel us. … When I hear [Italian Prime Minister] Silvio Berlusconi joke about the fact that Obama is ‘always tanned’ … I am very pleased to have become French!”
By Claude Askolovitch
Translated By Sandrine Ageorges
November 8, 2008
France – Le Journal du Dimanche au Quotidien – Original Article (French)
Exclusive: After “the call for genuine equality of opportunity” launched by Yazid Sabeg in the Le Journal du Dimanche – already endorsed by several politicians – the wife of the President is also committing herself. She can’t sign it because of her position, but Carla Bruni-Sarkozy explains why she supports this document. A neo-French, the First Lady emphasized that her husband is also a child of immigrants. And she invites France to change.If I were only Carla Bruni the singer, I would sign this manifesto for equality. But I’m Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, and my name is not completely my own. It would be strange to communicate with the power, my husband, via petition! But this doesn’t prevent me from being engaged. And it doesn’t prevent me from agreeing with the manifesto you have published …
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