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But the weak meme will always reassert itself: she's a she and a leftie, so she's going to be fighting it all the time. Either she means the Iran stunt or she's spinning for the campaign, and she'll spin for the next one when/if she's in office.

You're beginning to sound rather like the hopeful Democrats in the US: "she's just saying that to get elected, she'll be fine when she's in office". It seldom seems to wash out that way.

I hope you're right.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 09:00:30 AM EST
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Well, Sarkozy is really destabilised right now, and Le Pen lurks not far below the surface.

If she is a Democrats, she's at least a gutsy, successful one, so far. And her actual policies, while in power (in the government or in her region), are genuinely to the left.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 09:03:11 AM EST
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I think she means the Iran stunt, but we could imagine that she means it like this:

"I am against Iran pursuing civil nuclear energy ..."

Ok so far this is what she's said ... now let's add the following:

"... on its own, but am in favour of French companies being called to build and manage the reactors".

by glomp on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 03:24:51 PM EST
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