"Catch ya later, Chirac!"
It's Sarkozy, Mr. President...
"Yeah, that's what I said."
The French have so little humor! President Sarkozy is upset that President Obama wrote to his predecessor, Jacque Chirac, instead of him, pledging a close working relationship. Sarkozy seems to think it was a snub and not just another mistake made by the "pros" who finally are back in charge of American foreign policy.
To help out the overworked White House, we have drafted the following that they can patch things up:
My Dear Cozy,
I am mortified by the leetle error of sending a letter meant for you to someone else. I am only now checking my records to see if my letters to Prime Minister Konrad Adenauer and Czar Boris Yeltsin have gone astray, too.
Ever since someone from Great Britain named Brown showed up in my waiting room and took away the bust of my good friend, Winston Churchill, I have had trouble keeping straight who is who in Europe these days. Calls to Gloriana XII of the Grand Duchy of Fenwick (which I learned about in a film called The Mouse That Roared) have been unavailing. A wireless communication with the government of Freedonia met the same silent fate.
At least you are taking my correspondence seriously!
Please accept my apologies and let me know when you can drive in from Paris for lunch.
Yours truly,
Etc., etc., etc.
P.S. "French" fries are back on the White House menu!
