A Comment About

Debating in French

May 2, 2007 - 6:45 pm - by Nidra Poller, PJM Editor, Paris
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2007-05-02 20:50:00

May be Royal should move here across the pond. Here, politicians never really answer a question. If a politician ever said what he thought, he had committed a gaffe. No matter what a politician was asked, she gave the same canned answer. Politicians don’t challenge each other in the so-called debates. Each one recites what he is supposed to think after his pollster assured him that the position polled well. A politician is not expected to keep his promises either. Bush II is an odd man out, he tries to keep his promises and wants to do what he said he would do. That’s why he is considered “dumb” by so many.