Segolène; a long time ago, I had a good opinion of her; but then, something is fishy in her profile : she is the daughter of an army-man - can't remember wether general or anything else; anyhow in my mind, the kind of lady which is on the "law and order" side just like Sarkozy, which, if I remember is correct (when she was in power, she forbid youngster of less than twelve to stay out after a certain hour at night) and which I don't mind as long as it stays within reasonable limits.
To my eyes she certanly is a leftist bourgeois as well as Blair is a leftist ultra-liberal (if it makes any sense...)
One morning, I was listening to my usual radio station during breakfast, and she was being interviewed. She was talking about rapists; the young rapists who do "tournantes" in the "cités" (more or less the same places where they recently burnt cars); she was talking about them as poor chaps who had not had enough love in their life, she was taking their defense; poor guys, we really should'nt be too hard on them.
From that day, I decided this woman, however clever and sarkosy-energetic-like and pretty-photogenic she may be, was not a woman of common sense and should not become president. the youngsters behave that way thinking their punishment will not be very harsh (or maybe not thinking at all which is also a problem); I am not convinced the mothers of the youngsters have not loved them, they may have loved them too much, and the guys may have lacked the authority of a father, and the learning of what must be respected, of law.
I usually find woman from french politics very interesting, they have courage, it is so difficult for them to get there (in France) that they sometimes seem more free in their speach than many men. But for the moment, I would not trust Segolene - (but then who would I trust?)