France, sad perspectives

Why? Why, if Sarkozy is such a shrewd politician, as Italian journalists keep repeating, without giving any substance to the claim, why should he wish to be so strongly linked to such a loser?

The suspicion that there is a hidden but real vein of folly in him (which in France you may not even hint, but before the elections was well considered in the foreign free press) gets stronger in time.

Sad times for France...