I watched with great interest Traian Basescu’s interview for the public Television on Monday night....
I watched with great interest Traian Basescu’s interview for the public Television on Monday night. Even though I was aware of Romania’s position as far as the NATO Summit in Bucharest was concerned, I wanted to see the approach of the one for whom the Romanians pay taxes in order to offer the privileges of a president in a country lost in the Balkans.
At the end of a pathetic dialogue from the journalistic point of view (Luca Niculescu was rather attentive and didn’t let the interlocutor speak about anything, but the former spokesperson of the Nastase Government, Claudiu Lucaci, listened to him in a goofy unobtrusiveness paralyzed at the thought that he was in front of the greatest chauffer of the country), I really wanted to ask: Was the person that occupied an hour of TV transmission the Romanian President or a candidate for the Mayor position in a world-forgotten village of Romania? For approximately two decades I haven’t heard so much demagogy per minute in a TV show.
A person that wasn’t aware of the nowadays realities, which are quite the same with the ones of the entire world, would have thought that the show host wasn’t interviewing the President of a small country that battled for survival in the jungle of international politics dominated by the great powers, but Iosif Visarionovici Stalin present at a reunion of the Communist and Labor Parties in the Romanian capital with the purpose to discuss with the first secretaries in Germany, France and England.
The primitive Romanian nationalist, who recites the lyrics of Vasile Militaru would have been highly emotional at the thought that, on Monday night, in Bucharest, he has seen Nicolae Ceausescu on the TV screen liver than ever, even though a little bolder
