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Per our discussion about whether handshakes or hugs are more appropriate in workplace settings, I think it's safe to say that the Obamas' meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, provides absolutely zero guidance.
As we can see from the photo, Sarkozy gave Michelle Obama the Euro-style cheek kiss, while his wife gave Barack Obama a more formal handshake. But, as these photos from the British Sun show, Ms. Bruni greeted Mrs. Obama with smooches on the cheek, and the two presidents hugged.
I'll try to keep all of this in mind the next time I'm meeting a world leader.
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Emily, you genius! Now that is the way to warm Hillary up for the true swing voter: get her out there single again, dating, and vulnerable. (I could see her with Mitt Romney, but never mind.) She would lose none of benefit of having been Mrs. Bill Clinton, and all those women who think she’s too calculating would have to admit that even such a well-deserved midlife reinvention in midcampaign is bold.
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Regarding the quick dissolution of the Sarkozy marriage, a several decade melodrama -- this seems like something Hillary should be contemplating. When people really start envisioning both Clintons back in the White House, wouldn't it be better if instead Bill just went away, saying he, like Cecelia Sarkozy, preferred "jogging in Central Park" to being First Spouse? It's almost Elizabethan to imagine a President Hillary dating Nicholas Sarkozy. (I'd prefer to see her with the ultimate boomer dream date, Paul McCartney.)
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