The President's Health

Sarkozy had promised the French people that, unlike Francois Miteran and Jacques Chirac, he won't keep his health a state secret. Details of his medical exams and checkups would be made public. When he fainted while jogging and ushered to hospital, Sarkozy kept his word and announced the details of his heart malfunction. That was the honest thing to do. Perhaps too honest. Here's what I'm thinking. Would Sarkozy exhibit the same amount of honesty if his heart failed him during sex with Carla Bruni? Even if he wanted to be totally honest about it, would the French people want to know that their President's heart failed during sex? Here's why I am not so convinced that the full details of the incident would come out.

Take a look at the photo. You see 4 leaders. The American is business as usual. He looks in the distance and doesn't get distracted. The Canadian is fixing his tie, he looks naive. The Italian and the French, however, are both intensely sizing up the woman's curves!!

Some things are too cultural to change. If Sarkozy's heart failed him during sex with Carla, we would know about the heart failure but I doubt we would know about the actual circumstances that caused it.

While all the medical details would be made public, we would still be told it all happened while the couple was jogging in the streets of Paris together...

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