dimanche 23 mars 2008

Jours 320 & 321

Bonnet d'âne

Editorial du New York Times, le 22 mars 2008, titré ‘President Bling-Bling’ :

"For a politician who worked so long and hard to get into the Élysée Palace, Mr. Sarkozy has demonstrated a curious notion of how to behave once there. [...] Some are fairly classified as personal business, but some were bad judgment by any measure: when he stalked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl of CBS News while calling his press spokesman an “imbecile,” or his crude crack at a guy who refused to shake hands with him at the Paris farm show [...] Such tidbits of sensation have been coupled with badly garbled messages from Mr. Sarkozy’s administration, with the president or his aides often talking and acting at cross-purposes to the ministers. Mr. Sarkozy proposed in February that fifth-graders research individual French children killed in the Holocaust, a peculiar foray into classroom issues that caught his government by surprise and was soon scrapped. [...] when a politician’s behavior gets in the way of his mission, it’s time for a dose of discipline."