What is much more interesting about Sarko is that he isn’t from the same group as the rest of them. The rest of them went to the same university, studying the same stuff. Imagine if there was only one good university for law/political science/etc. and every major politican from every political party graduated from there. Like the Ivy League, but instead of having the same ideology, it’s much more incestuous. We have a lot of politicians in the US who come from non-law backgrounds and not from the Ivy League either.
What has happened in Europe is a complete disconnect between the ruling class and the voters. They have much more of a connection with each other than with their own party members. Sarko might be a little different. At the very least, he will not have this petulant third-world attitude that results in leaders blaming the US for every rainstorm and opposing us out of pure spite and bile.
In fact both Bubba and his WINO went to Yale Law School.
And of course GHWB went to Yale.
So our recent Presidents and nominees have been to Yale, and many have been related. That makes our politics even more incestuous and elitist than France’s current election.
Plus with Reid surrendering to Al-Qaida we can’t even call the French names for the 1940 defeat with a straight face. The French did lose after a hard-fought battle, after all. The only thing we lost was in our will at home, not our will or ability in Iraq.
Your analysis is correct. Royal is a part of the elite ruling class. Sarko is not.
He is a lawyer, not a graduate of ENA, National Administration School. It is the elite school that trains government functionaries, and from which, all the leaders of France, have been graduates, on the Left and the Right.
I also think that Sarko is a new kind of leader because his father was a refuge from Hungarian communism.