President Obama's Mean Girl Moment
Perhaps President Obama and French President Nicholas Sarkozy have a burn book as well. Unaware that their words were being picked up by a live microphone during last week's G20 Summit in Cannes, the world leaders were caught in the act of exchanging some not-so-nice words about Cady Heron Israeli Prime Minister Banjamin Netanyahu.
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"I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar," Sarkozy told Obama in a report confirmed by Reuters.
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"You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you," Obama replied.
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Apparently, the conversation started with Obama chiding Sarkozy for France's UNESCO vote in favor of Palestinian membership, ABC confirms.
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The hot-mic slip-up brings to mind George Bush, who, in a Mean Girls moment of his own, told Tony Blair to "... get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit." The little moment of Sarkozy-Obama smack talk mirrors the regret-worthiness of President Reagan's bombing joke and John McCain's bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran attempt at humor.
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This is not Obama's only hot-mic gaffe this year. He laid into one-time budget savior Paul Ryan in April, unaware that the outside world was able to listen in. We know what happened to Ryan and his budget plan shortly thereafter.
