She was not helped by the journalists reporting her small gaffes and ignoring Sarkosy’s one very carefully, like the one when he regretted France didn’t participated in Iraq’s war at the same moment when the USA started to regret it…
A gaffe? Which gaffe? It gained him support as well.
'Mon attachement à la relation avec les Etats-Unis est connu. Il me vaut bien des critiques en France, mais, j'en suis fier et je la revendique'.

Do not underestimate her. She arrived at this level of politic because she is ambitious, cunning and without mercy…
Well she is an énarque, eh? It comes with the territory. She even was in the same class as De Villepin and François Hollande. I'm sick and tired of them, the lot.
Bayrou didn't go to l'ENA, he studied at Bordeaux.

Don't know where Sarko studied. He was probably killing small animals at that age.

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I find it difficult to believe the left will abandon Mme Royal or commit the mistake of last time
Well, as a old lefty, I have difficulty to believe in this Left-Caviar… I won’t vote for Sarkozy or Bayrou (even if I like what he is saying. The only problem is I remember with who he voted in the Assemblée,..).
I will perhaps abstain… Both candidates have roughly the same agenda
Wait, so you mean that you lefties will in fact commit the same mistake as last time? Abstaining, protest-voting or elsewise fragmentising your vote?


Sarkozy is more honest about it in his intentions to rip-off the French from what theirs parents and grand-parents built and to sell it to his friends…
The campaign is about communications and glamour… I want Victor Hugo, Blum, Clemenceau… I want ideals, ideas, I want to feel that they believe in what they are saying, and not to have this feeling like when some guys/gels knock on your door to sell the last Encyclopaedia Universalis…
And what if they come knocking at your door selling Kärchers?

At least with Sarko you know what he's about. And he does have ideas: liberalism and lots of it. We don't need a soft Ségo Zapatera, we need Nicolas Blairzy.