Left rages as Sarkozy finds best friend in crisis {fear, what's french for BOO?!?}

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/01/02/uk-france-sarkozy-idUKTRE8010EL20120102

Reuters) - With the French economy tanking, President Nicolas Sarkozy is pursuing an unorthodox campaign strategy: depict the crisis as so bad and so global that his untried opponents could not deal with it, and hope the picture holds until election time.

The list of French problems - from record-high unemployment to bleak growth prospects, the threat of a rating downgrade and increasingly wobbly-looking deficit-reduction plans - would have many leaders in preservation mode, seeking to limit damage.

But Sarkozy has taken a different tack, seizing in a December 31 speech on fears over an economic crisis he described as "planetary," "unprecedented" and "the worst since World War 2."

The opposition Socialists, whose challenger for the April 2012 presidential election, Francois Hollande, has a clear lead over Sarkozy in opinion polls, criticised it as an underhand way of masking his failures while capitalising on public anxieties.

[izquierdista]

1. {Le BOO}

[zbdent]

2. Le Boo! ...

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3. ...

[Catherina]

4. Hou! hou!

Sarkozy must go.

Boo is hou!

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5. hou's on first? nt

[Catherina]

6. Ah non mon cher. Pas ca!

Qui? Qui est sur first?

Touche.

[suffragette]

7. Glad to see Hollande has the lead

though Sarkozy will likely try every underhanded trick in the book to shift that.

Here's hoping it's adieu to Sarkozy.