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
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
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
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