On The Road

I just got an email from our Artist Directory member Caroline Wampole who is sitting in a room full of bloggers at Paris cable station France24. Everyone there is blogging about the election results as they happen. Except for Caroline who is just wondering what the heck she is doing there!

It will come as no surprise that American friendly Sarkozy has won the election, beating Socialist Segolene Royal by a medium large margin.

I’m not sure how I feel about this election, as French politics are complicated even for those who understand them. What we think of as conservative, they think of as liberal. What we think of as downright communist is only a little bit of socialism to them.

But when I think of my friends in France and how they become angry on a normal day at what they consider to be the demise of the French way of life, I can only picture them now, watching aghast at the election results.

The Americanization of France … that’s what some are calling the election of Sarkozy as President of France.

Read Caroline’s blog posts.

France24

New York Times profile on Sarkozy.