La famille Bush reçoit Nicolas Sarkozy sans Cécilia, souffrante

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KENNEBUNKPORT (AFP) - Le président américain George W. Bush a chaleureusement reçu à déjeuner samedi son homologue français Nicolas Sarkozy, disant comprendre l'absence inattendue de Cécilia Sarkozy, et confirmant sa volonté d'effacer les querelles passées avec la France.

A son arrivée, M. Sarkozy a expliqué que son épouse et deux de ses enfants souffraient d'une "angine blanche" les empêchant de participer au pique-nique à la résidence familiale de Kennebunkport (Maine, nord-est).

"Le pire", a-t-il dit en souriant, "c'est que c'est moi qui la lui ai passée".

"Nous sommes déçus qu'elle soit malade mais nous comprenons", a déclaré M. Bush lors d'une brève mais très chaleureuse apparition des deux hommes devant la presse.

Cette absence annoncée in extremis est apparue comme la fausse note de ce rendez-vous visant à instaurer une relation personnelle entre les deux hommes, et dont la Maison Blanche avait souligné avec insistance qu'il serait "familial" et informel.

Avant de partager un pique-nique de hamburgers et de hot-dogs --et non des homards, la spécialité locale-- et de déguster une tarte aux myrtilles, M. Sarkozy, M. Bush et le père de ce dernier ont eu un entretien de 45 minutes. La présence de l'ancien président George Bush (1989-1993) souligne le caractère informel de la discussion, a insisté une porte-parole de la Maison Blanche.

M. Bush a indiqué que les dossiers internationaux les plus cruciaux du moment seraient évoqués, et notamment le défi nucléaire iranien.

Mais pour les deux hommes, l'objectif essentiel de la rencontre était de faciliter le réchauffement des relations entre les deux pays.

M. Bush et les siens ont préparé un accueil soigné au chef d'Etat français.

Le drapeau tricolore avait été hissé en haut du mât de la propriété de bord de mer. Le couple présidentiel, accompagné par M. Bush père et son épouse Barbara, a accueilli le président français vers 12H00 (16HOO GMT), par un temps superbe. Les plus jeunes enfants de la famille avaient préparé des pancartes de bienvenue. Fait exceptionnel, les filles jumelles du président Bush étaient présentes pour l'occasion.




M. Sarkozy, en jeans, chemise blanche, blazer marine et mocassins de daim, a joué le jeu de cette simplicité voulue.

Après une accolade très amicale et une poignée de mains au président, une bise à son épouse Laura et un baise-main à la mère de M. Bush, il s'est lancé dans une description enthousiaste de la relation franco-américaine.

"Cela ne fait jamais que pratiquement 250 ans que la France et les Etats-Unis sont des alliés et des amis", a-t-il lancé, en évoquant une biographie de Lafayette qu'il est "en train de terminer".

"Quand on voit, sur la côte atlantique, tous les cimetières avec des croix blanches, ce sont de jeunes Américains qui sont venus mourir pour nous. C'est plus important que M. Sarkozy et M. Bush", a-t-il poursuivi, louant encore en termes appuyés la "grande démocratie" américaine.

"Alors, sommes-nous d'accord sur tout? Non, parce que dans une famille on peut avoir des désaccords. Mais on est dans la même famille, c'est ça la vérité", a-t-il dit.

"Nous avons de bonnes relations avec la France, évidemment nous avons eu des désaccords", avait commencé M. Bush, citant "l'Irak en particulier". "Mais je n'ai jamais permis", a-t-il continué, "que des désaccords nous empêchent de trouver d'autres moyens de travailler ensemble".

Le déjeuner a été suivi par une promenade en bateau d'une demi-heure pour M. Sarkozy et MM. Bush père et fils. Le président français a ensuite regagné Wolfeboro (New Hampshire), à 80 km, où se poursuivent ses vacances.

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Sarkozy lashes out at photographers after being snapped on boat


As international incidents go, it was all very embarrassing.

Perhaps it was the pressure of his new job. Or maybe he'd just discovered that the sleepy American lake town he'd chosen for his fortnight's holiday was named after a British general who famously defeated the French.

But France's new President Nicolas Sarkozy, better known to friends and foe in his own country as 'Sarko', may be regretting his decision to shatter the peace of a lazy afternoon on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire to harangue a couple of American photographers.

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On holiday in New Hampshire, a furious Sarkozy spots the photographers

For one thing, he jumped onto their dingy clad only in his swimming trunks.

And secondly, the American targets of his fiery invective had no clue what he was talking about, however loudly he shouted at them in French.

Far from being paparazzi buzzing the foreign leader, the pair were from a news agency and police had given them permission to be there.

It finally took Sarko's glamorous former fashion model wife, Cecilia, to point out calmly to the photographers that the president was unhappy about having his photo snapped on his holidays.

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Sarkozy orders his boat to approach the photographers

Even though George Bush has never been caught with his trousers off, the American president, vacationing 50 miles away in Kennebunkport, Maine, has seen his own relationship with the media sink so far that he will certainly sympathise with his French counterpart.

Relations between the two countries have been strained since the French opted out of the US-led Iraqi invasion and Bush was hoping for a closer relationship with newly-elected Sarkozy.

But the middle of a tranquil lake in the state with the motto 'Live Free or Die' is the last place he could have foreseen another French- American confrontation.

"Zut Alors! French President loses his temper on Lake Winnipesaukee" was yesterday's banner headline on the front page of the local newspaper.

Associated Press photographer Jim Cole said the diminutive statesman was laughing and joking on Sunday afternoon as he drove his boat into open water from his holiday home, a £15,000-a-week lakefront estate owned by a former Microsoft executive in Wolfeboro, which claims to be America's oldest summer resort and is named after British General James Wolfe, who defeated the French in Quebec in 1759.

"He was happy and smiling and he waved at the security people as he was coming out," said Cole, who was sitting in a dingy with a freelance lensman Vince DeWitt. "And then he noticed us taking pictures and his happy demeanor diminished immediately."

The men said they watched through their lenses as Sarkozy pointed toward them and his boat began moving in their direction.

Coming alongside the dingy, Sarkozy jumped aboard wearing his trunks and began shouting at them.

"The president was very agitated, speaking French at a loud volume very rapidly," said DeWitt. "He was pointing at me."

Both men said they repeatedly stated they did not speak French. Cole said he asked whether any of the other passengers on Sarkozy's boat spoke English, but that no one answered or intervened.

Finally, Mrs Sarkozy piped up with her translation and, after securing a promise that he would be left alone for the day, the president climbed back into his own vessel and continued onto the lake with his family, followed by a boat carrying US secret service agents.

Shocked locals, well used to visiting presidents and celebrities, said they'd never seen anything like it.

"Mr Sarkozy was doing a Tarzan," said one eye witness. "He was acting tough with hardly any clothes on, telling the photographers to get lost. This might not be the best way for a statesmen to behave."

Others pointed out that a British or American leader would never repair the damage to his image from such an outburst - although John Prescott's infamous punching of a protestor earned him a certain kind of glory.

Wolfeboro does its best to maintain a quaint image. A trolley named Molly takes visitors from one end of Main Street to the other, and the town has numerous plush summer homes.

Some visitors wondered what French voters think about their president taking a foreign vacation so soon after his election in May.

"I don't think it would be tolerated by the American people," said Keith Chamberlain, 57.

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cecilia a deja du rencontrer khadafi, ce qui lui a donner une forte migraine....

elle allait pas non plus se taper bush, la c'etait direct amputation du cerveau lol.....


en plus au states, y a pas d'infirmieres bulgares a liberer.....

[limadala]

Envoyé par tagines en plus au states, y a pas d'infirmieres bulgares a liberer.....

Non, effectivement! Mais il y a nicolas à liberer des griffes de rachida

Ok je sors

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Envoyé par limadala Non, effectivement! Mais il y a nicolas à liberer des griffes de rachida Ok je sors

sarko a pris rachida avec lui et cecilia, richard atias.

c'est un couple du futur quoi, chacun il emportes son amant ou sa maitresse...



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