SARKOZY: APPEASING THE LEFT, OR AMERICA?

OR MAYBE SARKOZY IS SO SO SO SOOOOO SHREWD HE CAN ACTUALLY FIND WAYS TO HAVE HIS CAKE AND EAT IT TOO.

EXAMPLE:

THE VERY FIRST PERSON HE GAVE A FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR TO WAS AN AMERICAN AND A JEW.

HE GETS POINTS FROM THE NEO-CON ZIONIST CONSPIRACY.

THIS PERSON WAS ALSO A WOMAN AND A BUSH-BASHING LEFT-WING DOVE.

HE GETS POINTS FROM THE LEFT.

NEED A CLUE?

HE GAVE THE LEGION OF HONOR TO BARBRA STREISAND.

I THINK IT'S AN EXAMPLE OF PANDERING.

HE COULD HAVE GIVEN IT TO MAGGIE THATCHER AND BAT Y'EOR AND NATAN SHARANSKY.

THAT WOULD HAVE SENT AN CLEARER MESSAGE.

AND CLARITY IS IMPORTANT.

SARKOZY IS TRYING TO DISARM HIS OPPOSITION IN ADVANCE OF THE COMING BATTLE OVER ECONOMIC REFORM.

I THINK HE WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE BY BEING LESS ACCOMMODATIONIST AND MORE TRUE TO THE VALUES WHICH ARE THE FOUNDATION OF HIS POLITICAL QUEST.

IN THE COMING MONTHS, WE SHALL SEE IF HIS WAY WORKS...

RECENT HISTORY - WITH BUSH HERE IN THE USA AND BLAIR IN THE UK - THOUGH SHOWS US THAT THE LEFT IS NEVER SATISFIED. THAT'S WHY ONE SHOULDN'T APPEASE THEM. IT GOT BUSH AND BLAIR BUPKUS. I THINK IT WILL GET SARKO BUPKUS TOO.

WE SHALL SOON SEE...