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Hervada-Gimenez on "Nicolas Sarkozy, rupture and ouverture"

Hervada-Gimenez — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:11:32 +0100

The article reminds me of the man who pointed his finger at the moon and a passer-by (the Author, say) stared stubbornly at the finger and never rised the eyes towards, well, the moon. What the author doesn't seem to have perceived is the abyssal crisis of the European Left, an ideological and moral defeat that starts to look like a terminal agony. Indeed, the hang-over of having supported the jihadists "against American imperialism" is overpowering and appears to have neutralized all attempts to renew the ideas and the narratives (does someone remember the anti-globalization movement, that last-ditch effort to manipulate a movement into being?) The anti-neo-liberal rhetoric has shown itself to be a poison-pill for the Left. Reading and swearing by Toni Negri (Empire, remember, that half-baked concoction) was suicidical because it amounted to renounce to the Left's better tradition of humanism and liberation. France has historically shown itself to be the harbinger of Zeitgeist. We must ask ourselves WHY people like Bernard Koushner seem to feel so good in the Sarkozy goverment. So, do not look at the finger and watch instead that colossal moon rising over Notre Dame.

gilesrm on "Nicolas Sarkozy, rupture and ouverture"

gilesrm — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:53:45 +0100

Rachida Dati is Justice minister, not Housing minister. She therefore holds one of the major postings in the Sakozy/Fillon govt.

alfredo.bremont on "Nicolas Sarkozy, rupture and ouverture"

alfredo.bremont — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:50:03 +0100

it is said that often we chose between a good candidate and a lesser good one. it turns out mathematically that the good choice reveals to be the bad one. G W BUSH is the last example of it. but the problems of France are not of power or Napoleonic fantasies. the fact is the French do hope for a napoleon that will lift them up after the waterloo defeat, which they are still suffering by. France has a more complex handicap and that is the French language that is slowly disappearing as well the French mentality and its luxury items which are most of them on the way out. sarkosy understood that and hope indeed to accomplish mission impossible. in conclusion he realizes that is better to give money to the rich and famous, and himself that way he can jump into the Bright light. therefore the economically powerful of France will benefit from sarkosy, the poor certainly cannot as there is nothing he or anyone can do to render France what France was. however if we apply the proper intelligence to the issue we can. culture and arts are the only way out for France, as to work more to pollute more will have the Brits as well as the rest of the planet complain to the sarkosy clan. pollution discrimination democratic dictatorships and the lot. the men will cave in under international pressure and it is the international pressure who will keep him on his place or dispose of him. the French citizens are lost on a sea of confusion they will do nothing and cannot do anything anyhow. his ministers as well as he himself depend on the worlds capricious circumstances and the climate has a say on that matter as climatic upheavals as experience in 2007 can indeed cripple a nation. in the mist of this disasters there are some bright and intelligent individuals who cannot prevent the disaster but can guide the citizens through the passage from chaos toward order. this will take some thinking but the changes are unavoidable and a newer economical system is required if humans hope to exist longer than 2012. this new system exist today on a hybrid form, and the reason you perceive the disappearance of the socialist is just because the right wingers are also disappearing. this total change is closer to all of us than expected, we just need the bright minds to takes us to the end of the tunnel and release us from this nightmare call the capitalistic dark prison.

Nicholas Sarkozy, overture in F-major, Patrice de Beer

Jessica Reed — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:09:58 +0100

Nicolas Sarkozy made a telling joke during one of his first foreign trips after his inauguration as France's president on 16 May 2007. Accompanied by his foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner and his minister for Europe, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, "Sarko" commented that he was the only one in the French delegation who was not from the left. The point can be made even sharper if it is recalled that two of the other four ministers in the foreign-affairs department come from the Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party / PS): Jean-Marie Bockel, in charge of cooperation with Africa, and ); Rama Yade, the young, glamorous, arch-Sarkozian, Senegalese-born woman, with responsiblity for human rights.

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