Sarkozy and Obama have been facing similar issues lately. Both continually try to be seen as a populist while chipping away at constituent-rights, both rode the Haitian Crisis Wave with grand gestures of generosity, and both leaders are of the weakest ilk the globe has ever seen. But in France, the nation of ‘walking the line’, the leader appears to be giving the finger to political correctness and brings up Obama’s sacred cow, Muslim-anything, and says he’d like to ban the burqa. Can you imagine the uproar here if Obama banned an article of clothing, especially if it made sense?

Read ‘Guns and Burqas — The Afghan, Economic, and Wardrobe Wars of Nicholas Sarkozy’
by Susan Easton