Quelle horreur! Sarko insults Condi Rice

Nicolas Sarkozy's official visit to Washington was going so well - until he addressed a group of businessmen and suggested US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was a perfect example of a recent immigrant who had succeeded in the US. "Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Madame Rice, these are not longtime Americans... For more than 20 years your minister for foreign affairs has been an American from elsewhere," he said.
Wrong! Rice's parents were Americans, as were their parents and at least one other generation before them. Biographies of Rice say her paternal great-grandparents were born into slavery in pre-Civil War Alabama.
It was the French president's only gaffe during a trip intended to persuade his hosts that not all Frenchmen hate America as much as his predecessor Jacques Chirac, who fell out badly with Bush over his refusal to back the war in Iraq.
But Sarko wasn't just charming Republicans. He called Hillary Clinton to say: "The only thing harder than running for president of France is running for president of the United States."