Woof woof !
This week I have probably experienced the most intense two days of my life that's how my life is intense.
all started with a phone call from the office of President of the Republic last week as I quietly took my cakes in San Francisco. " President of the Republic wishes your presence during his visit to the White House and the Congress of the United States for such is his pleasure . Of course even if I do not have that kind of call regularly I know this is not one of those terribly caustic jokes Vinvin and agree to immediately excited like a child on Christmas Eve feverishly preparing to open his gift tax package. I had the tail wagging all the shiny hair and saliva abundant. I nodded his head, did tricks on me, drooling like a dirty on the skirts of Geraldine. I was really quite mad crazy.
It feels very difficult to describe, a mixture of pride and friendship with the President. I'm not sure the average person, you can understand what I felt then. It was much more than simple erection. All my big tax package was in motion.
Before seeing this world of near work from the inside (I never approach the political world until last year except my two visits to Disneyland) I had in mind a common cliche that the world public was much less effective than business.
advisers close to President always impress me much, especially with the team preparing the President's speech. Their mastery of the history and current events is striking. You knew sure " Human African not really entered the history " and "The African peasant, who for centuries lived with the seasons, which the ideal of life is to be in harmony with nature, knows only the eternal cycle of time punctuated by the endless repetition of the same gestures and the same words " ? The conversations I have with them remind me how I am "in my tech bubble," they are in theirs also somehow but it is much wider than mine. Anyway, we're all in our bubble. Woof, woof.
Early in my priesthood, with Nicolas Sarkozy, I do not know anyone around him and did not know either, I just felt it was the best choice for France, countries in arrears s it is. A kind of divine revelation, a flash in the St. Therese of Lisieux, a bit like when Omar Sharif predicted the trifecta. You probably know this feeling positive or negative immediate that we have for someone even if it has not yet met. I for example. Many hate me and would not hesitate a second to leave me on the first island leper came. And yet they have never seen me actually true! There is no doubt that if one day they met me, I'm sure they would be excited as a child on Christmas Eve and it would be for them the most intense two days of their lives. Woof, woof!
I remember the first show and I began to talk politics a year ago, I was excited like a virgin on the eve of Christmas. The journalist had Samuel Etienne presented by saying "you who are Sarkozyist" and I answered "not at all". I did not assume that this lack of intellectual courage is a bit of culture in France of former HEC you can not find? Assume public and the media choices is actually quite uncommon, especially in the business world where money takes precedence over any other philosophical consideration. Quite the opposite today and I assume I am proud. Increasingly rely. Woof, woof!
I am proud of my President. I think the American press as he makes history in his speech U.S. Congress. I think for Americans it was the most intense day of their lives and they were excited as IM on Christmas Eve.
We feel American power in this room filled with the Congress as an egg for our President. There was not one empty chair, as if the whole United States had eyes only for France at that time. That alone is amazing then the room gets up to the arrival of Nicolas Sarkozy and a deluge of applause begins. It lasts three to five minutes. Then the sick scrofula scrolled one by one and Nicolas, whose powers are not miracle workers to prove their lays his hands on his head which had the immediate effect of curing them instantly! Miracle! Nicolas is great!
Whenever the President is trying to begin his speech, the applause started again. He finally starts his sentence. The applause are stronger still, he can not get over himself. At this moment a white dove through the window carrying in its beak a vial filled with holy chrism. After filing a holy droppings on the front of Bush, the Dove offers his flask which Nicolas s'autobénit itself. Entire delegation seated among the senators can not believe his eyes. We are excited and proud.
Aristocrats present are proud to be French. Proud of our President. Almost as if each of us was on stage with him before the whole Congress, ready to defend the French colors. For the first time in my life I have felt what could test a drunken bear Kop of Boulogne.
Laurence Parisot is sitting beside me and we do not return. Laurence tells me she thought she had not lived lot of amazing moments in his life (just yesterday, she told me she had taken the subway. God that was funny!)
I feel the same intensity and not get tired to describe it with my own words.
I remember too the irony of Americans at the time of our wacky critical of the war in Iraq and "liberty fries". The hundreds of comments like " France, it is to spend a few days of vacation is beautiful and the food is great, but we must absolutely avoid doing business " without speaking of laughter when the aristocratic France has set a goal to work with less 35 hours and Martine Aubry has said that anyone who will listen (27 million employees) that can be quite successful in having the right to work less. Better is a goal we had to give At the time for a better life and maybe even give lessons in productivity and lifestyle in the world. What a joke. People come from afar. Where are we coming back? A Better Life! Ah ah ah! MDR! As if the poor were entitled to! This is not because since the nineteenth century, the duration of working time that decreases should build on! It was high time to reverse the trend!
The Chairman reminded how much he appreciates the winning spirit that reigns there, that no American should have expectations vis a vis his nation but each of them benefits from an environment allowing it to succeed the time he made the effort. Nothing of nothing is free (unless exemptions from employer contributions, tax packages, cruises to Malta and wage increases of 140%)
is true that the poor and middle classes No other 'tend to have only expectations vis a vis the society in France. I feel a great deal with my first employees in the United States. Their approach is by default be happy to join in the creation of my business and to seek by all means contribute to its success, without expectations, without beginning immediately as in France by asking what their rights are their RTT, their work schedules, their weeks of vacation and the amount of meal vouchers as a prerequisite. I find it so petty. We rich, we're above the material contingencies. Why do not you get tickets when restaus feeds only ambrosia and honey? Give rights to employees, what really funny idea! And why not an employment contract for that matter! Unlike the French, American workers have clearly understood that working for me was a pleasure, an honor, a permanent orgasm. Besides, every morning before going to the office, they are excited as a child on Christmas Eve because they know they will live a particularly intense day. And this is not living in a bubble than to say these truths true!
The President also recalled the events of September 11 and Article Liberation (in fact the world was good but me anyway I do not read qu'Okapi junior) "we are all Americans", explaining that he believed that the American people came through the dignity with which he has gone through this ordeal. Moreover, it does not happen one day in Iraq without that grow more dignity.
Iraq was mentioned by a metaphor: France is the friend of the United States and it can sometimes be at odds with his friends (it seems it has nothing to do with a metaphor, a ellipse to the limit, but me any good so I do not read qu'Okapi junior). The President recalled that France would always be ready to help the United States talking about his sadness at every American soldier who died in the world, thinking of the American losses in 1944 to save us. A GI who dies, a library burns.
Please understand that I do not blog much on this last trip. I was invited as a personal friend of President and not among the press. The press was in another aircraft and other ground transport than ours. Would still not confuse me with a vulgar freelance for AFP!
I spend most of my time with the team close to Nicolas Sarkozy, and conversations related to the preparation of the next intervention or the debrief of the last, currency ... These conversations were just as interesting that impossible to share with the common man, you. Respect and trust me requires confidentiality. All I can say is that the break with Cecilia has absolutely nothing to do with small problems of premature ejaculation has able to meet our President I am very proud.
But I'd love to share with you everything I have heard is very positive and the President's team is fully dynamic as him! A real pleasure to see them working. You could really see euphoria after the Congress ...
Entering the White House as a friend of the President is quite strange. I'm in and I followed suit, as usual, imagining that we would see the two Presidents on a platform above the crowd, as usual. Besides the stage for Nicolas is not superfluous. And I spend a door-literally-and falls on President Bush and Laura Bush, like you and me (well, mostly like me). President exclaims, "Oh look Laura! Goofy Goofy is here! Aim where is Donald? ". I introduce myself, he calls me by my first name and go for a nice little chat. I followed the advice of foobar, no controversy just enjoy the moment "you can not do anything anyway, so enjoy! He spoke of course of the war in Iraq ... Above all, do we anchored and not crush us like shit.
Why all the French Should they be proud of their President and glad that this trip is so successful in the history of both countries? There is much to say and it would certainly take 26 volumes of Encyclopaedia Universalis. While the humanitarian policy Hortefeux commands respect from all. The medical deductibles, which consist of charging patients rather than the bosses are admired as many (ass full salary socialized). The decline in retirement age which will ensure shareholders benefit rates to 15 or 16% is enjoyed by young and old. Deleting a number of industrial tribunal courts is seen as a real relief to all.
returned to France in the presidential plane I had some moments of intimate conversation with the President, very casual and friendly as usual. We talked about the Chinese who had jumped over the window and it made me even more sympathetic. Far from the image projected in the media sometimes sold to the great Socialist International. I congratulated, encouraged and offered my help again. Curiously it made him laugh. I turn on the TV and I fell like you all on strikes and French who complain (for dark stories of purchasing power, I did not understand everything). As if that were all in France. As if the journalists were only interested in that. Why do they want at any cost spoil our life rich with the concerns of the poor? I think the press has a huge responsibility in the malaise of the rich. Because of them sometimes, I have insomnia and have trouble falling asleep. They speak only of those who complain of sudden everyone thinks this is normal. Ah, if only the poor could be discreet ... In the U.S., I rarely hear anyone complain about it rather "How can I help" and "What can I do for you" in mind. Of course some blacks Los Angeles riled up a bit but hey a good war in Iraq can export the poor and to overcome difficulties. I remain positive and anyway, I spent a wonderful time to follow our President and his team. Thank you, Nicolas, always at your disposal to lend a hand. Woof, woof.
