Ségolène Royal makes more travel plans.
Mlle. Royal a regional politico has made junkets to Spain, Italy, and the Middle East* to impress French voters with her ability to handle the complicated planning and myriad details associated with foreign travel: ticket purchase, check-in, baggage check, pre-flight security, and keeping track of one's boarding pass. She has shown herself competent in all these areas.
Mlle. Royal also has shown quick recognition of her destination when announced by the flight crew. Mr. Douste-Blazy,** with whom her travels are often compared, is known to forget completely where he has been deposited.
Next stop America.
HOWARD DEAN TO HOST SEGOLENE ROYAL IN US
PORTO, Dec 7, 2006 (AFP) - The French Socialist party's presidential candidate Ségolène Royal will visit the United States "before the end of January", she said on Thursday during a socialist congress in Portugal.Royal said she had asked Howard ["Primal Scream"] Dean, head of the Democrat Party, "to set up my first trip to the United States"...
She underlined that she wished to bring up a plan for "joint research units" between French and US researchers as she was concerned by the "hemorrhage of young French researchers to the United States".
Mr. Dean is the perfect addition to Mlle. Royal's American policy team. Although to date he hasn't taken tea with Hizballah, he, like Mlle. Royal, is in the same zone of agreement:
"The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong."
More Mr. Dean here.
* This, Mlle. Royal's longest and trickiest trip yet, had been going nicely until she deplaned to take in the sights and chat up the locals. Mlle. Royal assured all that -- reports of outrageous stupidity aside -- she had returned to France without the loss of a single item of personal property other than some airy credibility, which she wasn't sure she had with her to begin with.
** The dimmest bulb in the dark Chirac marquee™.
PFFT (What is this?): Travel credentials 3 | Going native 4 | Rayonnement français 0
