So said Nicky Sarkozy to Le Figaro -- so reports Le Politico's Ben Smith -- and, what's more, he claims he knew all along that Obama would beat Hillary: "Unlike my diplomatic advisers, I never believed in Hillary Clinton's chances. I always said that Obama would be nominated." Indeed, Obama "would validate" his efforts to reestablish a strong relationship with the U.S., to mend the fences broken by the Iraq War and Bush's foreign policies generally.
(Remember, as David Knowles does at AOL's Political Machine, that Sarkozy is a conservative.)
Obama is in France today, and apparently the French love him as much as the Germans do. Here's today's cover of center-left newspaper Libération:
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