It's very good news


that Nicholas Sarkozy won the French presidential election. Even though I would normally support the candidate of the Left, Soggy-lene Royal was not what France needed, any more than a diabetic needs to be given a bag of bons-bons or more accurately, a slumbering patient needs another dose of morphine or a shopaholic a new credit card.
No, Ms. Royal is a disturbingly intact 1940's socialist, somehow teleported into the 21st century. A commentator said of her, that when asked any question, her Google-like brain picked up a keyword, then regurgitated a programmed paragraph containing that keyword but which in no way answered the question. Sarkozy said of her that she had the classic socialist assumption that Work was like a cake, a fixed yummy entity to be divided into peices and shared equitably, whereas of course employment is an infinitely extensible process - the more people in work, the more work opportunities there will be.
France needs a strong dose of 'tough love' - I hope the 2nd generation Hungarian provides it, and returns France to her greatness - and role of counterbalance to the US in Europe - we need her.