By Bree Hocking
…No, I’m not talking about the ongoing sartorial sprint between first lady rivals Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain to see who can out-Jackie Kennedy the other when it comes to showing off demure A-line skirts and adorable little 1960s shifts. It looks like whomever ends up as America’s wifey-in-chief will also have some formidable international competition for the “Jackiest of them all” title. (Damn globalization.) Now France’s white hot first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is getting into the act, telling Vanity Fair she, too, sees herself in the mold of the woman once heralded abroad as the “Supersonic First Lady” of the USA. Hmm, this could get Cuban Missile Crisis ugly — think quarantines, air strikes, amphibious assaults on non-aligned hemlines. A future President Obama or McCain may rue the day they ever stepped foot into the Oval Office.
Wasn’t Sarkozy’s election to the French presidency supposed to have signaled a thaw in Franco-American relations?
