http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/07/france-sarkozy-ump
*Given what he's been through, he must be thanking God and Carla
that he's not Brown or Berlusconi. But, until the next elections, it's him
and the Greens. Meaning, basically, it's him. "L'etat c'est moi." The
French Left ran on an anti-Sarko plank and have ceased to matter
because of that decision.
*He's far and away the most gifted politician in modern Europe. Also
the luckiest – but he made his own luck, because he who dares, wins.
