Narky Sarky

OPPORTUNISTIC SARKOZY: Temporary Insane

Le petit homme at the Elysée Palace resembles with each day more of "General Ripper" in the movie Dr Strangelove. As Sarkozy spews out his newly discovered xenophobic tirades, he invokes the images of Ripper, rambling on with his paranoid belief that there is a Communist conspiracy involving water fluoridation and contamination of everyone's "precious bodily fluids". The parallel of the mad general with the president-for-six-more-weeks is that Sarkozy wants to maintain the purity of his fancied European Union, advocating now a "Made in Europe (only)" campaign to promote products from his fantasy land of milk & honey called Eurozone, and to erect an invisible wall around the Gallic state to prevent dark-skinned intruders (immigrants) from contaminating French bloodlines. That's the basis for his announcement yesterday that France may leave the Schengen area, which has abolished passport controls within its borders.

"Temporary insane" means to adopt the irrational fears and hysterical reflexes from the Front National in the 1980's and 1990's. Ironically, Sarkozy's appetite for closing France and the EU to outsiders, creating the much anticipated Fortress Europe, follows his own presidency that allowed more than one million immigrants into France, most of them now derelict and depending on social handouts. Pure madness, that!