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Originally Posted by Errigal
Is it my imagination, or has the political class very rapidly turned into media obsessed freaks with no sense of responsibility?
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We French are at the edge. But nothing that you don't already know, reading the rest of your post.
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Originally Posted by Errigal
It seems that as soon as a Baby Boomer/68er gets into government then the dignity of their office takes a nose-dive.
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At this point, it's a
theorem.
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Originally Posted by Errigal
President Chirac was far from perfect, but he was at least presidential; President Sarkozy dragged himself down to the level of some crappy TV presenter on his first few days in office. Could anyone imagine another French President running around in a New York Police Department T-shirt, or getting drunk at a G8 meeting, or getting a divorce right after taking office?
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For my money, I'll say that since De Gaulle, we've been down the hill. So, logically, Sarkozy is the meanest, a real
racaille (thug), to use a famous word of him. But he is Chirac's legacy, his former favourite "son". Someone invented a famous ironic phrase about Chirac's way of governing the French. In English it's something like: "He is their chief, so he follows them" (
"Il est leur chef, donc il les suit!").