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Sarkozy's nominations are just like Bush promoting Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice. Do you really think that means the Republicans do more for blacks in America?

Sarkozy is good at the spin. Really good at it. But there is nothing underneath.

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Jul 22nd, 2007 at 05:56:45 AM EST
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The fact that there is nothing underneath is surely an opportunity?

If he sees a set of policies that WORK, do you not think he'd be off with them like a ferret down a drain-pipe?

Surely it's for the "progressives" to come up with that.

Bugger the Left/Right distinction: it's obsolete.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sun Jul 22nd, 2007 at 06:02:38 AM EST
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things that actually work are usually not simplistic, and will be just a smudge harder to explain - and easier to distort and mock, especially when the media is highly sympathetic to you.

Look how Royal was called gaffe-prone when she actually did fewer gaffes than Sarkozy.

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Jul 22nd, 2007 at 06:15:40 AM EST
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Also, the only minority person elected to parliament was a member of the PS (and there had already been some in the past, such as Kofi Yamgane, MP of Finistère, which is the whitest part of the country...)

Another point to make is that only now do minorities are rising to the higher parts of the French meritocracy ; Dati and Yade have passed competitive exams (for becoming a magistrate and a Senate Administrator) which are among the hardest in Frace...

Sarkozy's government also claims parity between men and women, but strangely the left wing of the parliament is much more feminised than the right wing...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sun Jul 22nd, 2007 at 06:18:43 AM EST
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