Even though the press named it a visit, the adventure of the France President in Dracula’s country should be called a halt.
Even though the press named it a visit, the adventure of the France President in Dracula’s country should be called a halt. The guest got to Bucharest at noon, he went to lunch (which he could have done in the airplane, but he would have had to pay for it), he appeared in front of the media with Traian Basescu, he had a nip out to Calin Popescu Tariceanu, he climbed on the podium that our Parliament leaders brought there to make him feel as tall as de Gaulle and left. To Paris because his wife, whose boobs got all over the internet, was lonely.
In the press statement in Cotroceni, Nicolas Sarkozy made a cross reference to De Gaulle. Since Napoleon is too far back in time and because of the fact that he intended to conquer Europe, but not o unite it, the French Presidents like talking about De Gaulle. In the same way in which the Romanian politicians compare themselves with Nicolae Ceausescu. The difference between the Romanian politicians and the French ones is that the French don’t hide it, whereas the Romanians try to hide it. De Gaulle came to Romania when Ceausescu led the country.
Many people will be amazed of the cross reference of the French President to the one that a part of the present media calls the Odious. However, if one pays attention to the press statement in Cotroceni, to the speech in the Parliament, as well as to the facts that appeared with this halt in Bucharest, we will see that there isn’t such a great difference between them.
Marshal De Gaulle came to Romania in 1968 in a four-day visit (May 14th to 18th) aware of the fact that his gesture will help Ceausescu in being a personality of our era. The figuration imagined by De Gaulle involved the fact that we would think a
