The Republicans' favorite European, French President Sarkozy, is now an Obama man

Hey, I love the French as much as the next guy (in fact, I'll be Friday Cat Blogging live in a few hours from the AMERICAblog Paris office), so I can say without any animus that the endorsement of the French president isn't exactly what every American presidential candidate craves. Having said that, Nicolas Sarkozy is every Republican's favorite Frenchman. So it's kind of funny as hell that he seems to have endorsed Obama yesterday. Does it matter? No and yes. No, foreigners can't vote, and a hearty embrace from the fur-ners can be counter-productive, or at least meaningless. But, Americans are sensitive nowadays to the fact that much of the world kind of detests us. It didn't used to bother a lot of Americans, I think now it does, at least to a degree. So I suspect the Obamamania from abroad, at this point, is helping Obama's image at home with the left and the middle, and they're the two voting blocs he's counting on.