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Thursday, February 06, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:16 AM:
Cicero does some of his own French news, looking at one Alain Madelin, who says it's Bush or Saddam and Bush looks like the better pick to support. Madelin is still smarting from an anti-American crack he made during the Presidential contest last year - a remark that was distinctly out of character, and worse, did nothing to rev up the xenophobic right on his behalf - he garnered somewhere around one percent in the first round. He's the UMP deputy from Ille-et-Vilaine, notes Cicero, which brings a smile to the TurkeyBlog. He used to live in those parts back in '93 - when the Right came to power in the Assembly for the first time in quite a while and the groundwork was laid for the ascent of... Chirac. Oh well. Chirac, for his part, isn't as bad as he seems, and certainly isn't the ghastly Mitterand. But like political men of the right throughout the democracies, he has a tendency to fight hard for the little things while letting the big stuff slide, lest he be accused of being a fascist. Too bad he's worried about the charge; his predecessor actually worked for the Nazis but got a free pass because the press is largely the same throughout the democracies too.* * *
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