Sarkozys Take NY (Photos): Carla Performs At Radio City, Nicholas Shows Off French-Themed Sneakers

France's first couple are in NY over the weekend. In the beginning of the trip, President Sarkozy was the star attraction with a Friday morning Central Park jog and a lunch meeting with the UN Secretary General. Saturday night, it was his wife Carla's turn. The First Lady performed at the Radio City Hall "Mandela Day" event. It was her first performance since she married Sarkozy.

Check out a slideshow below of the Sarkozys' visit so far and photos of Carla practicing for her performance.

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			Le Arrival Sarkozy arrives with his wife Carla Bruni on Thursday night to stay at the Carlyle hotel.

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[Alok Kumar]

Will the Obama's go to see Carla perform? They'd better not do that, or the GOP will go crazier and report even more lies. If Michelle were doing something, anything in France, i'm certain the Sarkozy's would attend, but the French media would do a positive report on the the Sarkozy's meeting the Obama's for any reason, while America's media isn't quite as mature.

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[Elizabethen]

I love France. I'm a New Yorker. I'd love to visit Paris and the countryside. Their language and culture are amongst the most beautiful in the world

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[joceeco]

Will Obama invite him to the White house? Will the Obama's go to see Carla perform? They'd better not do that, or the GOP will go crazier and report even more lies. If Michelle were doing something, anything in France, i'm certain the Sarkozy's would attend, but the French media would do a positive report on the the Sarkozy's meeting the Obama's for any reason, while America's media isn't quite as mature.

[daisydukes]

HUffpost, photo number 3, you think you can photoshop out Sarkozky and let us have a peak at the secret service dudes only. I can't move past photo number three LOL!

[mazaza]

Get yourself a plane ticket. We got a lot of them (though not all bodyguards).

[julianna]

Good call.

[Yank in France]

Yes, I agree there is more than one way to organize an economy, and local culture and traditions are crucial considerations. Personally, I believe the US system needs more regulation but the American people will always be obedient to big business and the big lobbies, one lobby in particular (whose name I won't mention). But the Americans are also pioneers who are willing to take risks and let the chips fall where they may. The French and the Germans, however, are low-risk societies with little innovation. Above all, the French and Germans dogmatically stick to the same old ideas of political personalities year after year, although your teutonic neighbors are a bit more flexible in the latter category. The economists I read (everyday!) and have confidence in believe the US will be the first to come out of the worldwide economic crisis. Well no, the Chinese already seem to have pulledo out of the slump, but the Europeans will be the last to pull through, sometime in 2012 or beyond.
As for people retiring in the next five to ten years, FORGET IT: there won't be any money in the coffers.
So much for the social conception of society!

[mazaza]

Maybe we can call on the likes of Warren Buffett to give charity instead of pensions to the old. Maybe if financial speculation was just a tiny bit taxed, that would finance a lot of things people need. Under Chirac, a tax reform made it so the maid of a senator paid more taxes than the senator himself (Emmanuelli, he was awed and gave the figures). Anyone in a thriving economy will let the chips fall where they may, and in hard times, will favor low risk.
As for China : take millions of dirt poor farmers living in a dictatorship, cut their subsidies and ship them to big cities where they can work 50 hours + a week in factories as they would prison work. You pay them a bowl of rice (well, two, because before they only had one). When they are not so fresh, you ship in young blood. 80% of China is still to be "processed". Labor is cheap, foreign compagnies flock in. The dictatorship is now capitalistic and big business is ecstatic !
As for our recycling of old politicians, there I completely agree. The main parties (conservatives and socialists) recycle the same "caste". They come from the same schools, etc.
There is something of the "leftovers" of the old aristocracy in social relations here so... should the people overthrow the old caste or should it be up to the "leaders" to promote talent and renewal ?

[Yank in France]

You say, with respect to my comment that the French retirement system will be unable to make payments to pensioners in the not-too-distant future that:
"Maybe we can call on the likes of Warren Buffett to give charity instead of pensions to the old."
Your comment is proof positive that truly are French. -:) Honestly, my Paris friends say other such things, reflecting utter resignation before the disastrous situation we all face. I cannot get angry with you/them, but an American or other Anglo-Saxon people would react differently to impending disaster. I especially do not understand how French public opinion, including on the so-called "right", can defend work stoppages, strikes and even sabotage by government workers, when people know very good and well that such actions are extremely excessive. Fine, I understand that average working people consider support these strikes in the public sector because it is too hard to organize strikes in the private sector (the very peculiar organization of French trade unions), but another reason is that people just consider the State as an extension of the monarchy. They don't say so, but they act so, and that is part of the problem in France.

[TchoupitoulasCanal]

Wow....Sarkozy has some MUSCLES on those little legs!

Now, can someone tell him not to run with his socks pulled up ala 1970's NBA style? Thanks!

[mazaza]

In the 70's, he was an old young man.

[Cleo Schweyer]

@ mazaza : juste par curiosité : de quel côté de l'atlantique te trouves-tu ? si tu es français, tu parles inhabituellement bien anglais (et je sais de quoi je parles ^__^), si tu es américain, tu connais particulièrement bien la france ^___^
bref bravo quoi.

[KofTX]

Sarkozy takes New York?

Had no idea he was stateside....

[johnnygoodwud]

french sneakers,,­,,,,,,,,,,­,,with three inch heals

[nilotic]

LOL! Look at picture number 4. Oh dear.......

[Usama]

Sarkozy, le burqa hater? Le poop on le tete, Nicki!

[Zoe1]

Carla could do so much better than that little gnome.

[ConcernedAboutRFuture]

How do you know what makes her happy? Supermodels? Super jocks? How can you define what would be better for her? Do you know her personally?

[youngblood]

You sound like some old lady telling her daughter what she should like.

[teron678]

LOL

[PoliticalAmazon]

Many women when choosing a husband do no put their height at the top of the list.

[Katie5]

I'm curious cos I don't know how these protocols go.So does President & First Lady Obama get to invite France's First couple to dinner or some sort seeing as it is not an official function

[twisted-european]

Ah, Sarko, basking in the glow of himself! At least he doesn't cheat on his wife - or hasn't done yet.

[PoliticalAmazon]

They have been honest about the fact that they have an open marriage.

I really don't get "basking in the glow of himself" from pictures of him jogging. Do all people who jog "bask in the glow of themselves," or just Sarkosky?

[mazaza]

Sarkozy does bask in the glow of himself. That's even his trademark. This is attested by every journalist in the country, including in the most serious papers, he's had dozens of shrinks analyzing his personality, etc. Without the journalists, it can be heard in about every other sentence he utters, his demeanor, etc....

[SpankMePlease]

"They have been honest about the fact that they have an open marriage."

LOL. you live in a fact-free zone, don't you?

being called on your blatant fabrications so often, does not make you more prone to toss them around, i see.

[vesaversa1]

Who care about thees peoples being in this country beside media , Sarkozy will never get the greeting here that Obama got in his country .

[t iessa]

Is this a contest?

[mazaza]

For Sarkozy, it is.

[youngblood]

it appears to be.

[youngblood]

Watch what u say about these people or you will be labeled as a Republican by some on this site if u don't like them.

[t iessa]

All you have to do is disagree with the 'bots about anything and they label you Republican (or one of their silly names for them which they use because can't spell Republican).

[Jennfromfrance]

It's cool Sarkosy is in USA. Meanwhile he's not in France and the air is better.
Sarkosy is certainly glad to be in a place where people don't boo him. In France, when he goes in public, he surrounds with his partisans and removes the others.
The comparison with Napoleon Bonaparte is good, Sarkosy thinks France belongs to him and he acts like this.
Freedoms are decreases in France thanks to him.
As french, I am so upset that my income tax pay my president and his wife's personal trip.
Yes it's true that he talks behind Obama's back. In France, it's a big topic. Journalists love reveal this kind of information. I really hope Obama doesn't invite him in the White House. Sarkosy doesn't deserve this honour.
And I confirm Belgian invented the fries ;-)

[jazabelz]

I don't believe a word you wrote -- think you one of the Republican right wingers just trying to attack France because Bush/Cheney were so threatened by a country that refused to join the hoax in Iraq!

[youngblood]

So let me get this straight if a person has different views then yours then that makes that person a republican in your mind jazabelz?!

[Yank in France]

I am not French but I have lived in France for a very long time. One thing I notice, and I would be shocked if you disagreed, is that the French do not like any of their presidents for any length of time.
No, that is not quite right: They hated Chirac for most of the time he was in office, but now that he is former president, he has near 70% approval ratings. My French friends hate Sarko, not because he is obnoxious (although that is also true) but because he demands that they face up to their responsibilities as citizens when it comes to paying for social programs and actually creating jobs, as opposed to reducing the workweek to 35 hours in the hope that that would redistribute work among the unemployed!!

[mazaza]

Most of our presidents lied during campaigns. The reason we usually criticize them harshly is
1. We're good at arguing harshly (a national trait)
2. We are very involved with politics and have a very long political history that ranges from the communist party to neo-nazi parties.
3.Know the world is vast and complex
4.We struggled with tough social issues such as deciding whether people should die of a cancer they can't afford to treat or we should pay money so they are treated and unemployment compensation is for anyone who's worked four months or more (and proportional to the length of previous employment, etc...)
5. Since we're no dummer than most, we voted some years back for a government that was mandated to put into law the 35-work week for salaried workers but that would take a bit to explain and would not be understood unless you share the view that society is a whole where some must lose something so that others are not downtrodden...
It's a view of the world where politics is not reduced to your own pocketbook.

[youngblood]

how are his sneakers a french theme when they are red white and blue?

[GOPBossLimbaugh]

You've just listed the 3 colors on the French flag.

[youngblood]

Then they must have copied our colors for their Flag.

[AlexFTW]

Those are the French national colors as well.

[belfam]

YOUNGBLOOD
as much as these are the colors of thye US flag they happen to be the very own colors of the French flag too

[Katie5]

Haha, someone who also missed his geography class.Lol

[youngblood]

Good one, you're right, i missed that one and have to say pretty frigging dumb, thanks!

[mrsfeild]

OMG!!