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Old 26-08-10, 03:14 PM
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which I personally found extremely irrating given that he was living the high life at our expense - His presidential expenditure blew up by something astronomical.

Given that his predecessor, Miterrand, wasn't one to look at the bill when it came to the glorification of the presidential office, I thought that was pretty fucked up.
Well okay fair enough, but I still think that he got away with it way more than anyone else would have. Look at thi Bettencourt affair - no one would even have noticed something like that in the Chirac day, it would just have been "meh, add it to the pile".

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Bof. He managed to dissolve the assembly and hand over 5 years of his presidency to his political opponents. Arguably, not governing got him re-elected but still...
Well no one's perfect. His campaign againt VGE BITD was textbook material.

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I guess I am just cynical. Given that most of them are that bad in their real job, I have problems liking their personas. While I do like Clarkson because he is actually good as a TV presenter and un-PC "author".
*shrugs* How would you define "good"?
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