Will someone unplug this catastrophe on legs? Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
Now that the left controls Paris and the Ile-de-France (Greater Paris) region, and Delanoe has managedto improve relations with the neighboring cities around Paris to the point that there are discussions about more ambitious cooperation, in particular on transport, Sarkozy wants to barge into the situation to (i) divide the left, and (ii) grab attention on him for the flagship projects and (iii) do whatever will help the right win in the next round of elections. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
But the president is meant to uphold the Constitution, not act as if it were irrelevant. I know it is wishful thinking these days. But it would be a great danger to become accustomed to the impostor.
By the way, this is something I thought about and started to fear. Sarkozy has been so unbelievably awful from the start that people are likely to become used to it. And it may take a colossal catastrophe in 2012 to remind them of quite how incompetent he is -especially since most of the media will play his songs even more than now. It may well be that had he been less incompetent, he would have stood a lesser chance of staying in power. As it is, the bar will be so low that people may have forgotten how angry they were about him. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
But here is my comeback: at least you haven't ever elected Bush (OK, that he should get over 5% of the votes was embarrassing enough). Voter fraud took care of that, while he had lost both elections. There does not appear to have been significant fraud in France, so we must accept the fact that 'we' chose him.
Having said that, McCain appears to be leading in the polls at the moment. Ahem. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
