Opinion: Oh, those French presidents! You gotta watch their hands every sec

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We’ll let you write your own caption for this photo of Nicolas Sarkozy, le president de la France, patting the derriere of his wife, Carla Bruni, as they welcome President Obama and his wife, Michelle, in Strasbourg.

Now, on to the other business at hand, so to speak: Over these last 22 months and almost 4,800 political blog items, one or two -- all right, maybe three -- of our nearly 100,000 commenters have offered the opinion that something written on The Ticket was snarky.

Imagine that? And on a blog too! Amazing. Especially in this day and age of online ubiquity.

But today we need to give snark credits where snark credits are due.

Our blogging colleague Elizabeth Snead over at the Dish Rag has been at this a good while and knows her celeb stuff inside and out. In terms of the snark factor, let’s just say if you revere or even like Alaska’s Republican Gov. Sarah Palin, don’t go there.

So Elizabeth has done another of her patented clever photo galleries, this one on the mostly female spouses who gathered for that G-20 or G-27 summit this week; that G-number seems to go up every time this ritzy crowd assembles for asparagus avec tout de suite.

Imagine the security costs alone for one day of such multilingual yabber! It could get many minor countries’ economic stimulus going great.

Anyway, so Elizabeth’s got this nifty photo gallery goingand you can see that Sarkozy’s missus, Carla, who blew off the meeting in Londres, sure isn’t wearing a bikini even for April in Paris weather (though it was actually Strasbourg) and Michelle’s got her famous arms covered too this day.

Don’t Michelle and Carla appear to be having beaucoup de fun in this photo?

And then you get to photo No. 8. It’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who happens to be the president of Argentina, which not everyone knows because who cares.

Now, we’re not going to spoil any Dish Rag surprise here. Let’s just say that we’re learning some significant snark lessons about what in the future we can write about, say, Mike Huckabee‘s ‘beam’ being so broad or Joe ‘The Pate’ Biden, who was a senator when Barack Obama was a sixth-grader and just beginning to plot his $750-million campaign fund.

Or about Nancy Pelosi’s new face. Or if Hillary Clinton ever dares to wear anything politically pleated anywhere. We’re gonna have 200,000 comments in no time. And appreciate every one of them, especially the ones from Argentina.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Photos, from top: Associated Press and Pool Photo.