The Carla Bruni’s affair and French presidential habits

Let’s start from the end…

As you may or may not know, the president of the French republic has recently married the Italian top model, singer and songwriter Carla Bruni.

Most of the french people I know have been shocked by seeing their newly-elected president getting married with a morally-questionable person such as this italian lady who is known to have been sentimentally involved with at least ten famous people (Mike Jagger, Eric Clapton, Donald Trump among others). French people were disconcerted! How could their wonderful president marry such a low-profile polyandryc woman? Didn't he know that Carla was marring him just because she was eager for power? Couldn't he find a french wife instead of paying her a trip to Luxor whit french money?

I was astonished.

Most of the frenchies seemed to forget the context they were living in.

I am talking about monogamy.
I am talking about power.
And I am talking about nationality.

Let's if you can follow.
Monogamywise, they were forgetting that their wonderful president had already been married twice before knowing Carla. His formerly wife (Cécilia) had been married before and Sarkozy himself had attended the ceremony! She had two sons from this very first marriage. And his first husband had three wives and eight children from four different women. Sarkozy at the time had already had two children from is first marriage too, and was going to have one from Cécilia. What we have now is seven weddings, six divorces and thirteen children... Who was talking about Carla being polyandryc?
Powerwise, do the French really think that all of the previous marriages weren't sometimes sprung from political convenience? How lame...
Nationalitywise, why do the French have a problem with the First Lady being italian? Isn't their president himself of franco-greek-hungarian origins? Or are they still suffering the pain of the way they were humiliated by Italy during the world cup soccer final? Is that Materazzi name still burning in their memories? And, above and beyond all other consideration, when they will stop being so nationalist?

Anyhow, what I have to say is that in Italy the president of the republic is intended to represent national unity rather than a particular political tendency. He is someone who is rarely seen on TV and we rarely hear of. He does intervene just in case of real problems with the government and we like him for this reason. In France the president is on every sensational gossip-filled newspaper or TV-show twice a day. People do not respect him as a representative of their country. They tend to jeer of him and there is no town in France where you can't find critics on him scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on public walls. I personally find this horrible way of denigrating the President very typical of this country where everyone has apparently the right to criticize anyone else. Like if respecting someone's personal life was not anymore necessary.

But now Frenchies have to grin and bear an italian First Lady. I am having fun!