Well, the Pittsburgh G-20 summit is over, and as I mentioned here in early August, Michelle Obama took her fellow spouses to a couple of art venues. All went well, but it seems that
Carla Bruni, wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, managed to get off the best line — as repeated by Mrs. Obama when she spoke to her colleagues and about 250 students at the CAPA magnet school for the arts:
As my good friend, Carla Sarkozy, said, you know, in America, you know, here you have people who can sing, and they can dance, and they can act. Now, she said in France it’s not often that you get all of those wrapped in one. But she said there’s something unique about America’s talents where it’s just so natural to see all of that talent on display. So you all should be so very proud.
Wonder how that went over in France.
Everything else Mrs. Obama said was pretty predictable stuff about the arts belonging to everyone and the power of the arts to connect people. Yo-Yo Ma, Trisha Yearwood and Sara Bareilles were there to perform with some CAPA students. Later the spouses visited the Andy Warhol Museum.
Here’s the Pittsburg-Post Gazette article about the visit and a blog item, in which Bruni — the only spouse to speak to the media at the museum — said: “I think I wish I could stay a little longer, because we only stay one-and-a-half days, but I think it’s beautiful,” referring to the city. Charmer.