That being said, in the upcoming 2012 Election battle shaping up between Sarko, the Euro-Socialist head of the IMF and the neo-fascist Marine le Pen, my support is for Sarko.
In this partisan hastily thrown together article in the Leftist publication 'Foreign Policy' the author, supposed expert on French Politics Arthur Goldhammer who runs a Blog on French Politics where he routinely trashes Conservatives,
He is so full of Leftist knee-jerk anti-Sarko venomous hatred it makes the author's anti-Libya intervention position unintelligible. He never mentions the total incoherence and lack of leadership in Obama's war in Libya. Psycho-babble is nonsense when discussing foreign policy & political motivation. All that is missing here is an analysis of Sarko's short stature. Napoleon complex? Why not?
Goldhammer's undisguised contempt for Nicolas Sarkozy, to the point of suffering from SDS blinds him. He has also written extensively, ranting against Conservatives, GWB & Sarah Palin at length on his Blog.
He is suffering from a severe case multi polar PDS - Political Derangement Syndrome, BDS PDS SDS & now MLPDS his fear and trembling at the possible election of Marine le Pen.
As a supposed historian, his misinformation about Sarko's political & personal history is mind-boggling.
His facts are all wrong about Sarko & the Human Bomb story. Obviously he was not there, never read the newspaper accounts, never watched the video on YouTube widely used in the 2007 campaign. It caught it all on tape.
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He reminds me of Napoleon.
I shudder to think of what would happen to France if a full blown socialist became President.
Hey Cinc LTNS
My son was assigned this crap in his French class. When he told to the teacher it was leftwing bias, the teacher assigned something else. My son is 11 and he and his brothers and sister are all Rush babies and know BS when they see it.
They are studying the French elections so sign me up to your list.
I saw on that blog where they are comparing Marine to Sarah. Are they nuts?
PDS Ha! Can I steal that one?
Loved your post about the Catherine Palace amber room mystery. Where do you find this stuff?
This is fine for France and may God save Sarkozy, but Obama’s getting involved sans a Congressional declaration is sheer treason. I can’t wait for this nightmare of national nonsense to end.
Actually, in recounting his career, this article increases my regard for Sarkozy. Impulsive and academically lacking, perhaps, and more than a little vain he may be. All the same, the man possesses personal courage, raw intelligence and good instincts. Above all, he possesses a real character and true commitment to his ideas and beliefs. The comparison between him and the blank screen that is ‘leading’ us is painful.
As is too often in historical writing, it’s not the facts but who interprets them and in what context. Maybe Mr. Goldhammer prefers bloodless diplomatic manuevering and academic hair-splitting to the world of action and consequences, but the latter arena is where real history is made. Maybe Mr. Goldhammer needs to spend less time in the Quay d’Orsay and more in the arrondisements-or an army barracks.
Sarkozy takes a strong but wrong approach to Libya. In general he has been a strong leader for the French. I for one hope he stays in. They would be stupid to put in another socialist, or Nazi type like le Pen’s daughter. But hey, they’re French. She’s a totally fabricated candidate from her phony name, her real name is Marion, to her speech and clothes.
That blog is a pompous POS. Gonna go over there and set him straight. Wasting time hating Sarah and Bush when France is going down the toilet.
Yes, this Goldhammer seems to have little to contribute in the way of understanding French politics.
It’s an unfair portrayal of Sarkozy. But I must say that Sarkozy has made a gigantic mistake with the Libyan business. And unfortunately Obama jumped on board, seeing his chance to help out al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. So Sarkozy can’t easily back off.
Now what? They’ve managed to railroad Turkey into agreeing to pretend that NATO is in charge. Who is going to stop these idiots? Boehner? I think Angela Merkel is showing good sense, but I doubt if she will do more than quietly stay out of it.
GOLDHAMMER
Posted this rant with personal attacks against Cincinna,
Free Republic, & American Conservatives.
http://artgoldhammer.blogspot.com/2011/03/double-language.html
What response do you all think this whining Liberal should get?
Here is what the Harvard Intellectual had to say:
“Cincinna, a regular commenter here, occasionally pretends to value my insights, but what she posts elsewhere about me puts me in mind of those politicians who specialize in double discourse, saying one thing in one place and another in another. On Free Republic, a mouthpiece of the American extreme right, or “small-state American conservatism,” as Cincinna would no doubt characterize it, she is rather less polite than she is here.”
Cincinna said
“He is so full of Leftist knee-jerk anti-Sarko venomous hatred it makes the author’s anti-Libya intervention position unintelligible. He never mentions the total incoherence and lack of leadership in Obama’s war in Libya. Psycho-babble is nonsense when discussing foreign policy & political motivation. All that is missing here is an analysis of Sarko’s short stature. Napoleon complex? Why not?
Goldhammer’s undisguised contempt for Nicolas Sarkozy, to the point of suffering from SDS blinds him. He has also written extensively, ranting against Conservatives, GWB & Sarah Palin at length on his Blog.
He is suffering from a severe case multi polar PDS - Political Derangement Syndrome, BDS PDS SDS & now MLPDS his fear and trembling at the possible election of Marine le Pen.
As a supposed historian, his misinformation about Sarko’s political & personal history is mind-boggling.
His facts are all wrong about Sarko & the Human Bomb story. Obviously he was not there, never read the newspaper accounts, never watched the video on YouTube widely used in the 2007 campaign. It caught it all on tape.”
His response: “Thanks, indeed, Cincinna, for this succinct summary of my failings. I did indeed make an error about the Human Bomb story, because I am, alas, fallible and was writing under deadline pressure. I neglected to check a detail, which I once knew but had forgotten. But given the many syndromes with which I am afflicted, it’s a wonder that I can write anything at all, or that you bother to read and comment on what I do manage to write day after day. I assume, by the way, that the writer at Free Republic and the commenter on this blog are the same Cincinna, and that the Free Republic writer is not some crank signing your name to her rants. If there happen to be two Cincinnas obsessed with the same error in my piece, I apologize.
Incidentally, I’m curious about that remark concerning my “fear and trembling at the possible election of Marine Le Pen.” Since you have on this site referred to Marine Le Pen, if memory serves, as a neo-fascist, anti-Semite, and Holocaust denier, would you not advise “fear and trembling” at the thought of her election? In fact, I don’t believe that she is any of these things—indeed, her skill as a political tactician told her to abandon those aspects of her father’s rhetoric that tarred the party with these accusations—but I still view her emergence as a genuine contender as disastrous for France. Don’t you?’”
Posted by Arthur Golhammrr
Thanks Cincinna.
Thanks for the ping and your tremendous posts on FR. Great informative/educational thread. Thanks to all posters.