Hokay, lets not start a back and forth session.  They are just annoying. 

I did feel a little empathetic for the guy.  Of course, hard-hitting questions wouldn’t have been easier to answer, but at least the excitement would have made him feel like a real politician.

A lot of the comments on here are funny: boxers or briefs?!, national enquirer (god, does it start with an i or an e?), the new rich kid with bad manners. 

But its CBS.  The network tends to show programs geared more towards baby boomers and up.  That’s what mom/dad/grampa/gramma want to see, so that’s what gets ratings. In their minds, they’ve got a good thing going.  Why change now?

Just relax kiddies; we will inherit the world soon enough.  Until then, keep reading truthdig.com, eh?!

re #110464
Your grammar lesson to Curley was off-point. It is exactly this type of arrogant, bullying attitude that makes America ugly, not its use or misuse of subjunctives.

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Having lived in France for several years, and knowing the culture a bit, I can say that many are embarrassed about Sarkozy, and not only because of his handshake marriage ruse. What you have, is a culture fearful of it’s growing immigrant N. African population, and ready to elect a strongman to deal with them. Completely predictable.

A Sarkozy is also inevitable, since France, a socialist country, will find it necessary to move to the right in order to compete in the hypercapitalist multinational environment

I wish Bill Clinton had acted that way when they asked him about Monika Lewinsky. When will Americans learn to mind their own business?

I was shocked at Leslie Stahl’s behavior.  Sarkozy had already answered her question when he told her he wasn’t going to talk about his wife, and yet Stahl asked him the same question again.  When she did that, she demonstrated a total disregard for his feelings and his wishes.  In addition, I was embarrassed for Stahl when she made a childish effort to engage him by telling him that his press secretary had also been asked the same question earlier.  Sarkozy was right to get up and walk away from an interviewer who was disrespectful and childish.

It is becoming increasingly embarrassing to be an American associated with the USA.  We are like the “New” Rich kid who inherited their parent’s wealth.  We have a lot of power and wealth but not the maturity to be graceful or thankful for our good fortune.

We are so full of shit most of the time it is pathetic.

It is just a matter of time before the world puts us in our place.  Egypt, Rome, Britain and others all ruled the world at one point in time and thought it would never end. The USA is just taking their turn.  We will be lucky if we last 300 years at the rate we are going.

Sarko L’Americain is evidently not accustomed to the Imperial American Press.

“Just answer the damn question...Boxers or briefs?”

Ahmedinejad laughed when the 60 minutes jewboys tried to browbeat him. Hillary did too. Obama seems just to kick back and enjoy the heck out of all these guys. Sarko’s looking pretty bush league, here. Was I French I’d be wondering what I wrought.

WR Curley
Elizabeth, Colorado

I saw that 60 Minutes interview and Sarkozy was justified in leaving.  Leslie Stahl reduced the interview, 60 Minutes, and herself to the National Inquirer’s level.  Another example of American journalism (an oxymoron) ignoring what’s important to talk about bullshit.