French first lady goes for walk in town day after Bush snub

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French first lady goes for walk in town day after Bush snub
Published: Sunday August 12, 2007


Cecilia Sarkozy was seen Sunday taking a stroll in the northeastern US town where she and the French president are vacationing a day after she declined lunch with the US president.

Mrs. Sarkozy was photographed walking with two friends in town, after a day earlier turning down an invitation for a hot dog and hamburger picnic with the US president and his family at the Bush retreat in nearby Kennebunkport, Maine.

Cecilia telephoned Laura Bush about an hour before lunch to explain she had a throat ailment and that she and her children would not be able to make the gathering, touted as a rapport-building casual lunch between Nicolas Sarkozy and George W. Bush.

Bush said he was "disappointed" by her absence but understood. The French president expressed regret for having passed the illness to his wife.

Nicolas Sarkozy, meanwhile, was seen wearing earphones and jogging on a lakeside path with a seven-strong entourage. The couple and their children have been vacationing in New Hampshire since late July.



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I think I'd come up with a more appropriate menu than hotdogs.

Hot dogs are what I served at my son's 5th birthday party, because he was 5.

Mz Pip
:dem:

if you're five.

God, I can't wait until these people find their way back under their rock.

Hell, I learned that in middle school! You would think that maybe just one person would have known the same thing? :wow:

If I had been invited to a meal that I knew they would be serving me what I thought to be animal food, I'd take a pass on it as well. :eyes:

He didn't want to be rude but couldn't help himself, "where I live, this is a WEED!"

LOL!

I often (well, when I'm eating them anyway) wonder how anyone figured out that the damn things are (at least partially) edible!

It kind of falls into the same category as "who first tried eating a snail, and why?"

or many other french foods. Although their bread and desserts are awesome.

Anyway, this is America, it's the president's house (or his father's) and he can serve what he wants. I would expect French food if I went to France. And I might not be offended by steak tartare but I certainly would politely decline to eat any. The greatest part about steak tartare, is that in some European countries they call it "filet americain" or American filet.

But that's not really the point.

It's more along the lines of inviting a vegan to dinner, and telling them that you are serving steak. What vegan in their right mind would accept?

Shrub and Laura announced to them that they were serving pig food (corn). I don't blame them a bit for turning down the invite. The menu was simply rude.

things over after that whole "freedom fries" deal. :eyes:

and like also, who knows which exact dignitary he might of been after to give them to anyway :think:

What a couple of hee-haws they are.

or a lobster roll, or some quahogs for lunch after their stroll around town (THAT would be something representative of New England cuisine, after all....quahogs may be 'iffy' here, but STILL ....I don't live there and even *I* know some of this stuff!!!!) I think this just further demonstrates that the shrub family has no clue/no connection to the land, the sea, the people....Nuthin!

Stupid white trash doofus's of the bush clan can't even offer them something that's really COMMON to New England.....and stupid Laura spoutin' off about 'corn from Maine'. I bet Laura doesn't even know what Maine's biggest farm crop IS (without googling it up).

Btw, a genuine new england clam boil wouldv'e been fun to do....my first choice. A clam dig then clam boil would've been even better!

probably pot, if not it should be.

:rofl:

*whispering* (that's not the right answer.....and black flies aren't 'it' either, although the flies could be contenders if people would pay 'good money' for them)....

I just realized that there don't seem to be many New Englanders here on DU....that's strange....never realized it before.

You really don't live here, do you! :P :D

Them Bushies are LAME and it reveals their Level...you are what you eat and what you say.

Even the conservative europeans hate bush, how sad

It actually shows the possibility of hope.

What a lovely snub, probably lost on that family of primates.

She fired (sent "thanks for your many years of service" letters) to Walter Scheib, Roland Messnier and Mark Ramsdell last year and replaced them with her hot dog & Sloppy Joe cooks.

Humiliating for the White House but good luck for me: I studied under Messnier & Ramsdell (WH pastry chefs since Jimmy Carter's tenure).

:wtf: :puke: :eyes:

I just went to a similar event with my friends; we brought steak tips for the grill.