A police source said that "there's no point recruiting supermen" as "large-sized" candidates stood little chance of being taken on. The presidential guard, known by its acronym GSPR, has been beefed up from 50 to 80 men since 2002, when a mentally disturbed man managed to take a potshot at Jacques Chirac, Mr Sarkozy's predecessor, with his hunting rifle before being overpowered.
President Sarkozy is notoriously sensitive and secretive about his diminutive height of around 5ft 5 ins – making him shorter than Napoleon. He has gone out of his way not to stand small on the world stage or when next to his 5ft 10 ins former model wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who mostly wears flat pumps.
Besides wearing specially-designed stacked shoes, Mr Sarkozy has been caught standing on tiptoes in global leader group shots and stood on a box to remain shoulder to shoulder with Barack Obama, the US President, when the pair gave speeches to commemorate the Normandy landings last year.
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This is kind of pathetic. Mr Sarkozy is actually drawing more attention to his small stature because he is so obviously trying to hide it and is clearly ashamed of it. If he owned up to it, accepted being a short man and realized there's nothing wrong in it, people would most likely seldom even think about the thing. Now everyone who sees the president also know he acts like a petulant child when it comes to his height. It really is kind of pathetic.
short sized men often overcompensate with a huge ego
OMG So true!! Either you can have the Sarkozy type or the others who truly believe they're god's gift to women. I personally have never met anything in between and I would much rather be stuck in a room with sensitive pathetic short man then the latter.
Well, I'm only a bit taller than Sarkozy and I don't think I have any complexes about my height. There might be a case to be made about my being pathetic, but I know for a fact I don't have a huge ego. Let's get stuck in a room together!
Lol. So... I had drunk a few beers last night when I wrote that, and looking back on it now, "pathetic" was a little harsh. And I was thinking about a short ex-boss who was very pathetic which whom I wouldn't mind seeing fall from an eight story building.
So, no offense intended. Maybe you're the mythical inbetweener. :)
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dude.. seriously..its ok!!
Oh, no need to apologize, I didn't mean it like that at all. And it was me who first used the word pathetic in this thread.
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