Sarkozy on the box

TV 1 and 2 was given over to Sarkozy for near enough two hours last night. According to Marianne, a left leaning political weekly, this is unprecendented and near unconstitutional. One trouble being an exile, everything appears as 'normal', at first, simply because it is happening. But he didn't seem to have a lot to say and nor did he have much of an impact amongst the students I teach. They just smile enigmatically. 'He's just a puppet' one says. 'He's just embarassing' says another. They just shrug when I say he could be a French Thatcher or Blair. To them, I am a strange English relic.
Even the sympathetic papers, the adsheets they give away outside the metro an the odious Figaro, can't drum up very much enthusiasm. "Let's go to Work!" one front page exhorts. . .at seven of a morning doing just that it seems a rather tautological message. Closer to the marrow is one paper that quotes the tiny talking turd as admitting that "Yes I've made some mistakes". Getting elected for one I guess. Perhaps the most absurd guff he came out with, was his claim that the French finances are all fucked up because of the price of oil and the food crisis. So, the Prince of Capitalism sweeps to power, gives away 15 billion Euros in cash to the top richest 30000 people in France (honestly they all got a 50k cheque in the post last Christams - who says St.Nick was a myth?), takes away workers' benefits and then blames his plummeting popularity on....capitalism.
He blamed his poor popular showing recently as a message from the people that they are impatient at the slow pace of reforms. They can't be rid of their pensions and jobs quick enough n'est pas? Pass le vin si vous fucking plait.