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Date / Time: 5/24/2007 11:52 PM UTC
Erik and I discussed Nicolas Sarkozy's new cabinet. (It was approximately 14 minutes into the podcast. We had phone connection problems prior to that). My question was, in appointing socialists like Bernard Kouchner to his cabinet, would Sarko be setting himself up into a situation similar to Chirac's when Jospin was Prime Minister, where Chirac and Jospin spent all their time bickering?Erik stated that appointing Kouchner as Foreign Minister, is part of Sarkozy's stratey to win the legislative elections. Sarko has to be open in order to win, and is doing a great job. Kouchner's the Socialist Party's most popular member.Kouchner was not the front-runner because he appeared too pro-American. As Erik puts it,
"The world did really well in getting Sarkozy as President and Kouchner as Foreign Minister."..."Bernard Kouchner has been to Biafra, to Bangladesh, to Saddam's Iraq; he wrote the foreword to The Big Black Book of Saddam Hussein, a 600-page opus on Saddam Hussein's crimes."
Doing this podcast was a lot of fun, as Erik was talking from his cell phone en route to downtown Cannes. I could only wish we could have enjoyed the scenery, too.
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Fausta Wertz was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She’s a graduate of the University of Georgia and has an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She blogs at Fausta’s blog on American and Latin American politics, news, current events and culture.
Fausta also writes on Latin America at Real Clear World.
Fausta has been a panelist at BlogHer 08, PajamasTV, and the Fox News Strategy Room.