Sarkozy's manic media maelstrom can continue all it wants - the man flies twice across the Atlantic today - but this morning it's hard to concur with his bad attitude towards the European Central Bank.
Yesterday, the Frankfurt-based mother-ship dumped nearly one hundred billion euros into the world's markets, propping things up after investors panicked because they had stupidly trusted bankers that would give people like me a home loan.
We'll see if the gambit worked, but it's impossible to imagine that France alone in a financial crisis like this could do anything but watch the ticker go by. Indeed, it's in moments like these that Sarkozy's effervescence seems nothing more than manufactured fizz to gate-crash news headlines. European heads of state are but poor players strutting on stage in moments like these. In 2007, when the going really gets tough, you call Europe and not the Elysee palace.
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