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2005-10-27 Europe

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Posted by Fred 2005-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Another Charter Member of the John Kerry School of Hair Design^TM.

Posted by Raj 2005-10-27 10:29|| 2005-10-27 10:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, well, I must be monomaniacal, since I always comment on Sarko while I'm usually discreet, but I can't stand the guy.

Basically, he's a two-faced power hungry wannabe-president, only good thing about him is that in words at least he's more atlantist and pro free-market than the usual strain of french pols.
Oh, and he really pisses off Shirac, that's a good thing too.

That said...
In no particular order (and I'm certainly missing some) : he's a big proponent of affirmative action geared toward muslims (now in national police, as he recently said), he wants aliens to vote, he wants to redesign the 1905 law of State-Church separation so mosque can be State-funded, he repelled the law that allowed the expellation of foreign criminals, he was the interior minister who established the muslim brotherhood-dominated CFCM (french council of islam), he advocates restarting economical immigration with quotas, the french muslim fundies supposedly call him "our buffoon" (that doesn't prevent him from going to ramadan break dinners),...

He talks the talk about being tough on crime and immigration to get the right-wingers voters, but he also courts the "6" millions french muslims (more like 8-10, actually), and he never walks the walk.
For example, instead of cleaning up the crime-ridden Courneuve "with a Karsher" as he manly said on teevee, he offered jobs and paid vacations to the yobs so they don't disturb police during summer; also, he was recently "greeted" by 100-200 "youths" who insulted him while he was visitng the 'hood, and threw him bottles. He was forced to bravely run away (what he could otherwise do?), and was visibly scared (all this was on teevee).
This is the THIRD time this particular interior minister was chased away by a mob of disaffected "youth", the first one IIRC being during his first stint, when he was supposedly nearly lynched while visiting the DÃ©fense Paris neibourhood, and had to go hide with his bodyguards in a police station after being pursued for minutes.

All he can do is be tough on automobile driver, soccer hooligan, and use his minister position to defeat the Shiraq plots against him (such as the media offensive about him being cuckolded and left by his wife after being caught "in the act" with an intern).

See this
http://www.france-echos.com/zone.php?cle=179
to get a partisan but accurate IMHO view of him (in french).

I hope I'm not being boring with this particular topic! ;-)
Sorry!

Posted by anonymous5089 2005-10-27 11:50|| 2005-10-27 11:50|| Front Page Top

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