I feel quite sad tonight.
Sarkozy (who got on the cover of a specific weekly magazine 20 times in a 11 month period) (who always appeared with tons of people around him, contrery to Royal and Bayrou who looked like common people, human beings, not rock stars like...) made his first speeches. He clearly seemed pleased and spoke open-heartedly. Good parts in his speech, which I can't or don't want to recall since I didn't vote for him. I think he was honest tonight, because he felt loved. But it won't last and I guess he'll rush back to his methods at the first "problem".
The man stated laws, but didn't give any means to apply these, nor talked to the ones who had to apply the laws (just to check if said laws could be applied) - check, you who read French, what he did about the clandestines this summer
http://www.cimade.org/actus/comm117.htm.
The crab key resident's analysis concerning Royal fits with mine.
The socialists didn't budge during these five years.
It's odd to feel shitty for something I haven't personally chosen.
Last time, when it was Chirac, I felt more irritated though for I didn't understand how his party had allowed him to run for presidency with all the mistakes he did.
Fact is, Sarkozy made no mistakes during his campaign, just lead the violent politics he appealed to.
What surprised me the most during this exhausting period of time is the fact that among every person I knew, none voted for the man, appart from my ex-boss who took sides 2 months after I left the job (we had no opportunities to talk about it).
I visited some boards here and there on the internet. Everywhere I went, Sarkozy was clearly unappreciated (on this thread too, for the moment at least).
Only once I saw a whole thread packed with far-right-methodes-craving messages, on an online news board (of a supposedly left wing
journal), flooded with anti-socialist diatribes. This scared me, I can't tell you how. It was when the police and the youth had a clash at the gare du nord. The scariest was that I felt that once some readers take control, people feeling a different way leave and start their own board, where everybody will agree with everyone, leaving no room for those who think differently (whatever the side).
This is sad.
"Incidents" already reported here and there.