Catty1
01-13-2010, 09:46 PM
You may remember her as the beautiful lady laughing uproariously when President Obama visited Canada last year:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnG1cZ_7VDQ/SZ77PmXmGyI/AAAAAAAAC0g/wxOMqlW766o/s1600/Michaelle%2BJean%2Band%2BBarack%2BObama.jpg
http://nimg.sulekha.com/others/thumbnailfull/barack-obama-michaelle-jean-2009-2-19-12-4-40.jpg
And today:
http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/editorials/Canadian+confirmed+dead+Haiti+others+missing/2437001/2438322.bin?size=620x400
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100113/national/haiti_earthquake_cda_gg
Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean driven to tears over Haitian earthquake disaster
2 hours, 44 minutes ago
By Bruce Cheadle And Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean had just received word of the worst disaster to hit her Haitian homeland in two centuries of calamities when her American dinner guests arrived Tuesday evening.
The vice-regal, known for her heart-on-sleeve candour, held it together through a long, fraught evening getting urgent but sporadic reports at Rideau Hall with U.S. ambassador David Jacobson.
And she kept her composure during a highly unusual inside-the-war-room photo-op with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his crisis management team Wednesday.
Jean even managed to deliver, unbroken, a French-language statement to the media on the devastating 7.0 earthquake, when "fate once again turned against the people of Haiti."
But shortly after switching to English during a sombre press conference, the weight of Haiti's troubled history appeared to crush one of the country's most celebrated daughters.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnG1cZ_7VDQ/SZ77PmXmGyI/AAAAAAAAC0g/wxOMqlW766o/s1600/Michaelle%2BJean%2Band%2BBarack%2BObama.jpg
http://nimg.sulekha.com/others/thumbnailfull/barack-obama-michaelle-jean-2009-2-19-12-4-40.jpg
And today:
http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/editorials/Canadian+confirmed+dead+Haiti+others+missing/2437001/2438322.bin?size=620x400
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100113/national/haiti_earthquake_cda_gg
Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean driven to tears over Haitian earthquake disaster
2 hours, 44 minutes ago
By Bruce Cheadle And Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean had just received word of the worst disaster to hit her Haitian homeland in two centuries of calamities when her American dinner guests arrived Tuesday evening.
The vice-regal, known for her heart-on-sleeve candour, held it together through a long, fraught evening getting urgent but sporadic reports at Rideau Hall with U.S. ambassador David Jacobson.
And she kept her composure during a highly unusual inside-the-war-room photo-op with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his crisis management team Wednesday.
Jean even managed to deliver, unbroken, a French-language statement to the media on the devastating 7.0 earthquake, when "fate once again turned against the people of Haiti."
But shortly after switching to English during a sombre press conference, the weight of Haiti's troubled history appeared to crush one of the country's most celebrated daughters.