Sarkozy has issuesFollow

"It's Sarkozy, *****."

He does have a certain... flair, for lack of a better word.

all i know about him is that he just got out of a divorce, so that explains why he doesnt want to answer questions about his wife..

He's better than George Bush at cyboring, at least. One can only type "Gently, I ease another empty can of Milwaukee's Best past your quivering **** muscles" so many times before it gets boring.

Edited, Oct 29th 2007 11:24am by Mindel

I'm going to try to be as objective as I can about the guy.

He is, after all, our democratically elected President of the Republic, and is thereof President of all the French people, and Guardian of our Institutions, and as such deserves our deepest respect as French citoyens!

Sarko, as we affectively know him, is an extremely energetic and media-friendly right-wing French politician. He started off as mayor of a posh Paris suburb, Neuilly, in which my bro used to live. He did well there, eventhough objectively there was fUck all to do except clean the dog poo of the old ladies that pollute the area.

He then went on the be a protégé of Chirac, only to betray him, win his favours again, and betray him again. In between betraying the one he used to call "papa", he was Minister of the Interior, where he successfully inflamed the local youths enough to trigger the famous riots of a couple of summers ago.

His presidential campaign was based on the premise of a new approach to politics, far removed from the corruption and monarchic style of Chirac, promising to be a kind of French Tony Blair, for the right. He promised to reform the country through economically liberal measures, to be strict on traidtional French values, and of course, to be strong on law, order and immigration.

So far, he has managed to divorce from his wife, and he tried to reform some of the public sector, causing massive strikes, which are ongoing at the moment. Efforts for which he gets a C-, at most.

As a human being, well, he's the typically frustrated, overly ambitious small man, with an inferiority complex and a chip on the shoulder, running on nervous energy and bitter anger in order to portray an image of effectiveness and seriousness, which in fact only highlights the frailty of his gigantic ego.

He's not really Hungarian, his dad was. He's as French as Christophe Lambert.

And he's going through a tough time at the moment, what with the (5 months old) divorce from his wife, and the ongoing strikes, and France losing in the semis of the rugby World Cup.

Wel imo, as dutchie and following the subject, some of the changes Sarkozy wants to make are kind of necessary to cut his budget to make it more in balance (and compete) with other european countries, like the 40 hour workweek and privatizing pensions are two issues that France is "behind" on in europe.
But its pretty incompetent politics of him stacking it all at once with a few ****** regulations (cutting healthcare) thrown in. Also he creeps the hell out of me.

On a better note him following the latest "trends" (like a true populist) also makes him embrace environmentalism (sp?) more. Although with all his budget cuts probably a hollow statement.

4-5 months into his term and hes still to much words and to little action.



I also cant believe the US voter thought it was still a good idea.

Edited, Oct 29th 2007 5:50pm by Sjans

The last time I booked 40 hours in a week was when I was on vacation. :/

When I get down to 55ish, I feel like a right slacker.

The reason he left the interview was that he was trying to talk about serious issues like preventing Iran from getting nukes and saying things like people who live off the social programs need to get some self respect. I know people are dieing for more brit and paris gossip but he is a world leader and is acting like one. Sorry he didn't want to boost 60 mins ratings for them and instead deal with real issues.

Belgium.

He's a realist at least, I'll give him that.



He's doing ok with Merkel, but Sarko is not a real "European" like Chirac or Shroder were. Sarko is using the EU to mask France's economic problems, he's not respecting the economic rules (like deficit compared to GDP, etc...), and he does all this without even pretending to be bothered about it. Which makes him a bad European! Bad!

But the EU is pretty much blocked anyway since the EU Constitution was kicked into touch. It's a whole other subject, so I won't get into it, but the despite the new EU Treaty-which-is-not-the-Constitution-though-its-exactly-the-same, the evolution of the EU is grinding to a halt.