It's not just GOP candidates who don't want to be seen with Bush. France's right-wing Presidential hopeful, Nicolas Sarkozy, is being widely criticized after this meeting with Bush.
Popular Socialist candidate Segolene Royal says her own diplomacy "will not consist of kneeling before George Bush":
"When Nicolas Sarkozy aligns himself with George Bush, it means he approves of pre-emptive wars, it means he accepts this theory of war as good against evil."
