Yesterday the two rivals vying for the French presidency squared off in a televised debate. I didn't watch, but I printed out the transcript of the debate in French (Libération: La transcription exhaustive du débat) Perhaps it's a waste op paper... 48 pages... Anyway, read on...
Reading the transcript has some advantages. You can focus on the content without being distracted by emotional outbursts or the pretty face of Ségo. So let's focus on the ideas and ideology of the two contestants.
An inordinate amount of time was wasted on the 35 hour week. This issue has been settled once and for all 150 years ago by an old friend of mine, Karl Marx. Both of them, Ségo et Sarko were of course blissfully ignorant of the Marxist classics. They'd better return to primary school in Marxism before uttering any more nonsense.
The obscure discussion of the 5th or the 6th republic is irrelevant. Talking about immigrants, Sarkozy should really shut up. Son of an Hungarian immigrant, he got through the door and now wants to close it with a “clack” for anybody else. Either you open the doors of France to immigrants and Sarkozy gets a chance to become president, or you don't and Sarkozy is off-line. If he closes the door to immigrants, he is closing the door to himself. Period. Disqualified.
Sarkozy wants to close the door to products imported from countries which don't respect the Kyoto protocol. All right, block all imports from the U.S.? Truth or dare?
Sarkozy doesn't want Turkey in the EU because it's a county of Asia Minor. A stupid boundary! I bet he would like to have Israel as a member of the EU. And Ségo would probably agree. Do we need to say more?
Really disgusting is that Royal is even more hawkish on Iran than Sarkozy. She wants to block Iran from enriching uranium for peaceful purposes, thereby violating international laws. She wants to be more strict than Sarkozy. Vying to be the lap dog of Bush! Not one word was “wasted” on Iraq. Not one word of condemnation of Bush, the war criminal. On Darfur, Royal wants to put pressure on China, threatening a boycott of the 2008 Olympics, although not endorsing a boycott... What kind of shit is this? Interference by the “international community” or the “West” in Darfur won't solve anything. It can only make things worse. The “West” wants to crush the “Islamists”. Do we need another ill advised interference? Remember Iraq?
“Non” to Sarkozy, “non” to Royal... there's only one word the French need to remember on May 6.
No comments:
Post a Comment