The new scandal that isn't

It didn't take long for the British right wing press to create a new scandal related to Obama so it's only a matter of time before American right wingers pick it up. The story is about Obama snubbing Sarkozy and choosing to visit a few sights in Paris instead of having yet another lunch with president Sarkozy. What an outrage! Never mind that Sarkozy insulted Obama and other world leaders after the last event only a few months ago.

Anyway, what France wanted more than another stuffy meeting was the enormously popular US president doing a few tourist sites. For those who are a bit thick, tourism is down even in Paris. Tourism is a critical part of the economy and people are not traveling or spending the way they were in the past. Anyone who can't grasp how helpful the Obama visit was is hopelessly clueless and creating an problem that does not exist. Nobody would really care of Gordon Brown or Nicholas Sarkozy went sightseeing in New York but whether they like it or not, Obama is different.