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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 01:33 PM
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Shocking Michelle
From Jonathan ALter's new tidbit as reported by Politico's Ben Smith

One last tidbit from Alter's very well-sourced new book, which reports that Sarkozy and Obama hit it off better than is sometimes thought, but also inclues this scene:

Carla Bruni…delighted in telling friends that hse shocked Michelle Obama at their first meeting. Bruni informed the first lady that the press of state business prevented her husband to making love to her as mch as she would like, though in her telling they once kept another foreign leader waiting while they finished having sex. Bruni wanted to know if, like the Sarkozys, Michelle and the president had ever kept anyone waiting that way. Michelle laughed nervously and say no.


:blush::popcorn:
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 01:38 PM
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1. We learned the wrong things from the Europeans.
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Kookaburra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 01:47 PM
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2. Wow, was that ever inappropriate
Our first lady showed class in dismissing the question, quickly and without comment.
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 01:49 PM
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3. ...
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Cali_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 02:22 PM
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6. LOL
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 02:15 PM
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4. Wow, poor Michelle.
"No, Ms. Bruni...I've never kept a foreign leader waiting so Barack could rodger me some more."
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 02:20 PM
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5. Too much information, no mas por favor? eom
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 03:40 PM
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7. Too much information Carla. n/t
:wow:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 06:58 PM
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21. Exactly..if this ever happened.
How can one be sure..second hand info?
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 03:40 PM
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8. I think sometimes Bruni
forgets that she's first lady of France and not Mick Jagger or Eric Clapton's girlfriend anymore.
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 03:49 PM
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9. You should be in France. Ugh, I'm her bedroom than normal. She still has affairs & so does Sarko.
n/t
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 03:51 PM
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10. White House Announces New Aid Shipments To France

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a la izquierda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 04:21 PM
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11. whoa, gross.
i'm sorry, but i like to think of world leaders as devoid of sex lives.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 04:44 PM
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14. Ah, they're not.
Remember what Kissinger said? "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

;)
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LuckyLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 05:16 PM
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17. I always laughed when I read that, as I think Kissinger is one of the all-time least
attractive world figures. Ew-w-w-w!
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 05:17 PM
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18. When he was in his prime, he was pretty good looking...
Power carries its own aura.
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a la izquierda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:06 PM
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29. Lol...
Now Kissinger simply *mouthing* the word aphrodisiac is the stuff of nightmares
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political_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 04:28 PM
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12. What if Carla Bruni posed this question to Laura Bush?
Good grief. I'd get the brain bleach if Laura was ever that frank about Bush and Cond--oops, I meant, Bush and herself....

:rofl:
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 04:39 PM
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13. or Barbara Bush?
:scared:
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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 09:01 PM
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26. Well, she knew Babs wasn't gettin any. n/t
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:18 PM
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30. If she did, it was probably only because she wanted the chance to say the word "Bush"
as many times as possible during the conversation.

(C'mon...you all KNOW you wanted to post it...)
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 05:01 PM
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15. Bruni apparently is devoid of class.
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Kdillard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 05:04 PM
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16. Michelle handled that well.
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Old Troop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 06:05 PM
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19. What was the point?
Edited on Fri May-14-10 06:06 PM by Old Troop
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Empowerer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 06:22 PM
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20. What Michelle was thinking but didn't say:
"and even if we had, I have entirely too much home-training to discuss it with anyone . . ."
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 07:02 PM
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22. That's part of the reason our young people are so guilt ridden.
Sex between devoted partners is nothing to be embarrassed about.

Yeah, it was too much information but WTH, They're French and it's their cultural norm. :evilgrin:

My best friend is a French Citizen ... so I say without reservation, "Vive la France!" :loveya:
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Empowerer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 08:30 PM
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25. One need not be embarrassed about it to decide not to discuss it with near strangers
I sincerely doubt that the Obamas are the least bit embarrassed about their sex life. But they also, thank God, don't feel the need to go around talking about it. Discretion does not always equal repression.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 09:34 PM
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27. Yet Michelle was UN-EMBARRASSED to confirm it with a reporter?
Edited on Fri May-14-10 09:46 PM by ShortnFiery
There was no discretion applied once she decided to confirm this private conversation with the press.

You can't have it both ways.
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LuckyLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:32 AM
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28. I didn't read it that way at all. Carla Bruni confided to friends what she had said to Michelle
and Michelle's response. That's how it ended up in the European press.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:24 PM
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31. Well, Michelle is well advised to be discreet because her public is not Carla's public.
The French don't care if their leader's wife talks about sex. Americans are deeply repressed about sex. Michelle knows that. It's a political calculation, AFAIC. It was pretty damned obvious during the campaign that the Obamas had a smokin' attachment to each other physically and they didn't hide it too much. In fact, most of us LOVED it (even as Cindy McCain got more and more prune-faced when she was with John). Now she's FLOTUS and has to be circumspect. So what?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 07:03 PM
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23. ..
:) Ye-ah.
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pundaint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 07:10 PM
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24. The only problem I have with this is that it was shared with a reporter. Just another
better idea from France, that is totally scary to Americans, along with government for the People, universal single payer healthcare, good trains, and escargot.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:30 PM
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32. Lucky for her, Bruni didn't post that in Teh Lounge
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 06:07 PM
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33. TMI for Michelle and everyone else
:wow: wonder what she was thinking to say something like that. :yoiks:
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