Sarkozy needs a shrink, and some paternal love.

Apparently, Sarkozy needs a shrink.



Living in Manhattan means that I would not read much into that statement, but a head of state for approximately 60 Million people needing a psychiatrist is not a very snug feeling.

But say whatever you might, Sarkozy does like to kiss a bit of ass. The man loves the applause. It is not really a bad thing for a politician actually.

Britons who might have been elated at the speech he gave, something that could be read from my last post, might want to recall the speech he made in Washington DC. It was almost blatant in his explicit in his vindication for the Americans, something that ostensibly did not fall into place after the disastrous last seven years.

Watch the speech here.

It makes sense, doesn’t it? Le Monde reports that there might be something else about Sarkozy and his ways. One shrink reiterates his attention seeking ways and his dire need to be the headlines as the lack of paternal love he got as a child.

Either ways, one expert put is best, when he said, “What makes Sarkozy live in Politics is his being.”

Either ways, he does not stop fascinating me.

Not just bling and pomp perhaps: Sarkozy in the United Kingdom

Some are not amused by Sarkozy. Rest are vowed.



Simon Boggart put it best in the title for his Gaurdian column. Say what you want, but with the audience in front of him, few can beat Nicholas Sarkozy.

The French President was on a state visit to Britain, albeit a short one of 36 hours. And what followed was a lesson on bling and pomposity, as only perfected by the British. You don’t want to miss this. Catch this BBC Snippet.

It is easy in the past few months not to have taken Sarkozy seriously. I hate to bring up Carla Bruni up again, but few would have given him a shot with his stay at Windsor Castle overlapping with a nude shot of her resurfacing for an auction at Christie’s and not that forgiving British paparazzi.

Instead Sarkozy lathered the British with Sucre à la Creme to an extent that the British did not know what to do with this adulation. Sample this.

"How many armadas has your nation defeated? How many battles has it won which everyone thought lost? In the hearts and minds, even of those who fought against it, your nation has stood through its respect of the Other, its tolerance, its way of life, its freedom of spirit which has been forged throughout a long history full of sound and fury."

Read the text here he made to the British Law- Makers.

Simon Hoggart writes in his column titled in The Gaurdian, “ He loves us. He adores us. He reveres us! Listening to Nicolas Sarkozy address Parliament...was like being underneath a torrent of crème Chantilly [whipped cream] sprayed from a high-pressure hose. He actually said 'thank you' for the liberation [of France by the Allies in World War II]! Previous French presidents have implied that events in Normandy were mere skirmishes [,] while the French got on with the job of throwing off the German yoke. But...Sarkozy could not thank us enough."

As much as there is out there that might suggest otherwise, his 36- hours in London just wasn’t ostentation of the most blatant kind As Bronwen Maddox, chief- foreign affairs correspondent put it, "Sarkozy will get what he wants from this visit, with speeches in the Commons...and hours of meetings today with Gordon Brown and other ministers. It will relaunch him as a statesman (he hopes), and distract critics from his whirlwind courtship of Bruni, his paralyzed plans for reform of [France's] economy and his party's defeat in local elections a few weeks ago."

He is not stupid, is he? After all, he came in with a mandate for reform in France. That calls for a political brilliance beyond our comprehension.

Amidst all this, what happened to poor old Gordon? Apparently, the British Prime Minister got lost. The Daily Mail in a headlines shouted Ou est Gordon? And for a dash of humor, please check this report which has got loads of pictures from the official state banquet. She is easily one of the most beautiful women in the world.

And damn, with Bruni, like it or not, Sarkozy again walked away with what he wanted.

Someone get me out of New York, if you please.

They don't get fat. They have great sex. And yes, They are French.

“French women ‘are the sexual predators now’.”

That is, if The Telegraph and the 12, 000 odd women interviewed for The Study on Sexuality in France are to be believed.

Read The Telegraph piece here.

The Antifits has always believed that in Europe lays the hope keep on with the French for the rest of the international community. Nothing beats me how the Germans take it when repeated French governments find the entire fault with Frankfurt for their own economic imprudence. But they do, and in recent years, Germany has never been stronger. Charlemagne in this week's Economist a fabulous insight on it.

They don't get fat. They have great sex. And yes, They are French. But can we in the French women see where we in this world of Venus and Mars are heading?

The report says that sexual behavior of men and women have gone increasingly similar. One in five men in France find sex boring, or have little interest in it. On the other hand, Women have gone increasingly assertive.

The Telegraph cites Le Nouvel Observateur, which says, “The good old dichotomy (male predators, females patiently awaiting the warrior’s return in front of the cave entrance) is in big trouble.”

There’s something we could all learn from the French. But unfortunately, that is often neither Politics nor Economics.

Either ways, I got my ticket booked to Europe next week.