I am head over heels to a woman who never seems to reciprocate back. Doesn't mean I'm losing sleep over it, far from it. Come to think of it, I cannot sleep. I think she's sumptuous, as much as sensual. Every waking moment, I see her and wish to see her again.

This isn't a poetic limerick. This is a concession. I am conceding that I may not achieve the victory in the fight, the end of the finish line. I really like this woman and I only hope in exchange is to be adored back.

No, not adored... a feeling of adoration. I may finally be in love.

I find it amusing to read the poll numbers of French President Nicolas Sarkozy are going down lately. Could it be that he was involved in the most lascivious scandal to hit France since Napoleon and Josephine or that French citizens don’t know how lucky they are to have him? I suspect the latter. Yes, that would seem almost contradictory, something so paradoxical that to give it any sort of clarity would be to dismiss the essence of truth and clarity altogether. Truth is, Sarkozy seems like a one in a lifetime president.

First off, he doesn’t take shit from anyone. Here in the states, he found it irrelevant, inconceivable and sheer innanity to waste time with Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes discussing his marital dissolution. He’s right. Imagine if Bill Clinton said the same thing? Would the Ken Starr team of witch-hunt cogs that persued him so recklessly in our all too good 90s had they known real issues deserved sequestering? Sadly, I’m suspecting Clinton found it was within the zeitgeist of America to attack those of power, credibility and perhaps legacy, and that sex scandals were fair game. Sarkozy, meanwhile, saw the irrelevance of it, ended the interview right then, saying it was utter nonsense. And you know, he was right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkapbaK32PM

I find it funny, in a perverse way that France is now not supporting a president as much as it had who had the courage to assuage the fears of civilized Parisian culture. In February Sarkozy proposed teaching the Holocaust by assigning fifth graders to research individual French children killed by the Nazis. The idea appeared to have been pushed with minimal preparation and was widely panned; surprisingly, by Holocaust survivors themselves including Simone Veil, a former Social Affairs minister, a stalwart Sarkozy ally and a Holocaust survivor. She felt appalled by the prospect of forcing such young students to identify so closely with dead children.

I personally think it took tremendous courage to not just allow the French to fess up to their country’s historical (GRAND) misgivings, but also to address Anti-Semitism at large. French society has become so overwhelmed by Arab and Muslim influence that has pervaded its society leading to some of the most horrific acts, including desecrations of synagogues and cemeteries, and other holy sites. This had probably been the worst, and most reckless time in France, since the Nazis had occupied it. Sarkozy recognized this; that’s why he isn’t exactly welcomed in Lyon, or on the outskirts of Paris. Last year, he had canceled a campaign visit to the middle-class neighborhood in Lyon since protesters gathered there. They voiced their dissatisfaction since he vowed to clean out ’racailles’ or thugs with a high-powered hose used to wash off graffiti that is sold under the brand name of Kärcher. The French ethnic Arab and African populations have caused mayhem there, which likely prompted Sarkozy to address the real sad nature of French society.

His leadership is paramount with everything he does; he’s innovative and courageous.

Perhaps his career is encapsulated by an incident in 1993 when he was in the national news for personally negotiating with the "Human Bomb", a man who had taken small children hostage in a kindergarten in Neuilly. The "Human Bomb" was killed after two days of talks by policemen. He can deal with anyone and is an ally of the U.S., perhaps the most trusting of all politicians.

Shortly after taking office, President Sarkozy also began negotiations with the Columbian president to release hostages...maybe you should have asked him about that Lesley Stahl or how he’d confront world issues? He also announced in July that French and European representatives had obtained the extradition of the Bulgarian nurses detained in Libya to their country. In exchange, he signed with Ghaddafi security, health care and immigration pacts.

He has reduced taxes in France and has issued a decree to generalise a voluntary biometric profiling program of travellers in airports. The program, called parafes. Wow!

...Ok, I won’t forget the gorgeous Carla Bruni... :)

So, now I read French society thinks Nicolas Sarkozy is a bit too self-indulgent for the French tastes.

 http://www.newsweek.com/id/120098/page/2

While the ironies and sheer hypocrisy of this is amusing, French society shouldn’t complain knowing their leader is fearless, bold and above all, a moral man.

We could only hope our politicians could follow suit...someday.

A Muse's Temptation

Fire radiates against the tinderbox

without guile I awoke

finding an ancient, mysterious gemstone

making me alert

i jolt without hesitation

flippping off the light switch

letting the screen door slam

finding the last ditched dream

without shame, without joy

cutting blades, sharp as a sheath

sensitive as a pillowcase

fade away

we learn we are nothing

without our dreams

nothing without sensuality

as sexuality subdues the wars

chaos and amputees

freedom is for sale

freedom hasn't any thoughts

merely anger from a cupid's arrow

nothing malicious merely fear

merely a rabbit's speed, nor a fox's wiles

can impede any of our desires

~Jared Feldschreiber~