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She struck me as not knowing her facts and having an incompetent way about expressing her economic policies. The 'totally incomptent' phrase was what I gathered would be the extreme impression people would have from the debate. Her finest moment was taking Sarkozy to task over his duplicitous use of the handicapped school issue. Her worst moment was her arrogance in thinking nuclear only produced 17% of electricity when it is the source of 70%, even greater than Sarkozy's stated 50%

by An American in London on Thu May 3rd, 2007 at 06:36:47 AM EST
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Bilan énergétique 2006 (pdf) - p.17

Electricity is 23% of final energy demand
Thus nuclear, 78% of that (p.9 above), is 18% of primary energy consumption.

(She did say electricity in the debate, but her assertion is correct as far as "energy" is concerned)

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu May 3rd, 2007 at 06:54:00 AM EST
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I think what struck me was her arrogance in stating it even if she actually meant energy consumption. Hopefully it won't effect people's impressions of her like what happened to Ford in the Ford/Carter debate when he stated Poland was free and not part of Russian dominated Eastern Europe in 1976.

Splitting hairs and I hope she is elected but wouldn't be shocked if the neocons working in tandem with the Muiti nationals were able to elect Sarkozy.

by An American in London on Thu May 3rd, 2007 at 06:58:26 AM EST
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how Sarkozy is "knowledgeable" and she's "arrogant".

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu May 3rd, 2007 at 07:18:10 AM EST
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