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alfredo.bremont on "Sarko’s mountain"

alfredo.bremont — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:37:10 +0100

the eventual adventures that the press as the media spread around our daily existence has taking a swing towards the unpredictable.politics is becoming a bit like the weather, on one end it burns while across the road it freezes. basically this coming century is full of surprises and a lot of them are due to the media and the new technology that eventually numbs the mind and a week later wake you up with unexpected surprises. without actually knowing what you did the previous week. the brain is very tired as well, logic of the 20 century no longer makes sense. in short we are entering a brave new world and the old dictum's of the habitual elections and expected presidents and rulers of the world is a thing of the past. this Orwellian nightmare and the world wide media manipulation that is taking shape around us has indeed a head master, however he remains hidden for the time being. waiting for nature to do his thing and upturn the still conservative minds that believe all is just find. you can blame the I-Pod if you wish but a very serious reckoning is required if some expect to make it sanely to 2012.

Wolf on "Sarko’s mountain"

Wolf — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:23:12 +0100

Sarkosy didn't disappoint on the second round of the legislative elections exclusively over Borloo's appalling gaffe over a social TVA (calling for tax-raise during an electoral campaign, while representing a President who ran his own campaign on a promise to lower taxes!!!!). He lost (relative to poll predictions) because the first thing he did when elected was open his administration to the left, so soon after winning the presidency on a pretty right wing rhetoric, thereby discouraging the Le Pen voters who had rallied to his promises (and also the right side of the UMP). Sarkosy spent much of his first month in office to jump-starting European construction. Not very bright, when representing a country that voted a resounding NO to Europe in a still recent referendum Sarkosy told Lilianne Betencourt's family he would get her out of FARC hands in a jiffy. Where is Liliane Bettencourt now? At her Paris apartment?!!! I guess Sarkosy is as good at suppressing terrorism in Columbian Jungles, as he was at diminishing violent crimes in the suburbs of Paris. A short guy who boasts a lot: I'm afraid the francophobes on the Fox news network will have a good time with that, when they catch on to it. And maybe are the French bringing the ridicule upon themselves...

Sarko’s mountain, Patrice de Beer

admin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:00:04 +0100

Nicolas Sarkozy triumphed on 17 June 2007 for the second time in less than two months. The man elected French president on 6 May, who wanted to give back to the right its conservative pride, obtained a clear working majority in the second round of legislative elections with 60% of the seats in the national assembly. It is the fulfilment of any successful politician's dream: for the first time since 1978 a sitting majority has been returned to power.

Anyone else would have felt gratified by this popular seal of approval which should allow this man always in a hurry to implement his bold election promises to change France on a conservative path. So why this gloom in the winning camp while the defeated left - or what's left of it besides the Parti Socialiste (PS) - is grinning as if it had won?

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