Obama win will 'delight' France: Sarkozy

Published: July 25, 2008, 6:51 pm

Tags: foreign policy, obama, white house 2008

Sen. Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, are seen following their joint press conference after their meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Friday, July 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere) by Frank James In a performance likely to make American conservatives even more suspicious of the French than they already are, President Nicholas Sarkozy, a French-style conservative, toed the line, almost seeming to endorse Sen. Barack Obama. At a joint press conference after the two men met, Sarkozy said: "Of course, it's not up to the French to choose the next president of the United States of America. Whomsoever that may be, we will work with him happily and gladly. But I am especially happy to be meeting with the senator I met back in 2006 when we talked in such impassioned terms about Darfur, what was happening there. And there were two of us in that office, and there were two of us in my office. (Laughter.) And one of us became president. Well, let the

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