"This is not the right way for the United States to treat its European allies"

How be that Smart Diplomacy — treatin' friends and foes right — workin' for ya, Monsieur Obama?

"This is not the right way for the United States to treat its European allies," says Nicolas Sarkozy as the French — once more — give (Obama's) America a lesson in the way the world works or the way it should.

"If they want to be spearheading the fight against protectionism, they shouldn't be setting the wrong example of protectionism," the French President said, joined by Gordon Brown at Downing Street. "In life there is what you say and then there is what you do."