With his poll numbers sinking, is French President Nicolas Sarkozy losing his cool?

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from the AP, via Yahoo!:



Sarkozy draws fire for remark to man
By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer
Sun Feb 24, 10:22 PM ET



PARIS - With his poll numbers sinking, is French President Nicolas Sarkozy losing his cool?

An opposition leader pounced Sunday and Web surfers gawked by the hundreds of thousands over video footage showing Sarkozy snapping at a man in a crowd at a Paris trade fair.

"Casse-toi alors, pauvre con, va," he said, a phrase whose mildest translation is: "Then get out of here, you total jerk."

On Saturday while the president was working a crowd to intermittent boos, a freelance cameraman caught on tape an unidentified man telling Sarkozy not to touch him. The man accused Sarkozy of "dirtying me."

Sarkozy briskly snapped at the man and then moved on, continued to smile and shake hands with others along his path, saying "merci." AP Television News received a copy of the video from the freelance cameraman.

Le Parisien newspaper posted a video of the incident on its Internet site, and it tallied more than a half-million views by Sunday afternoon.

The president's spokesman, David Martinon, did not respond to a call to his mobile phone, and a lower-level official in the presidential press office declined to comment on the incident. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080225/ap_on_re_eu/france_snippy_sarkozy;_ylt=AjT9KGZZi2Sjjm0KtSKnckJ0bBAF

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