france's 2002 presidential elections

moving on, benji recalls living in paris in the first half of 2002, there was a presidential election and the far-right candidate, jean marie la penn, received so many votes, very many french people took it upon themselves to show their displeasure by protesting openly in the streets, some of the young mademoiselles even had tears drawn upon their faces and the words: 'j'ai honte d'etre francaise' (i am ashamed to be french).... that is how bad they felt about the large but ineffectual amount of votes the far-right party won

but, unless benji hallucinated it all, the amazing thing, and really damning for france and reason for afore-mentioned mademoiselles to have tears drawn on their face and the motto:  'j'ai honte d'etre francaise', the really damning thing was one of le penn's tv commercials, again, hopefully we never hallucinated it and it was indeed the case, in fact, maybe it was put together by some french tv channel and not in fact a commercial produced by le penn's party....


but what it was was extremely memorable for its patheticness: some english-language pop song, unfortunately cannot find it on the internet, but the lyrics were very trashy, and went: 'sexy baby with that attitude, you're looking at me, i'm looking at you...' and then le penn walks out to some press conference -- either way, whether his own team was dumb enough to make it, or it was a media stitch up, you have never seen anything dumber in politics (outside of england's 'royal' system of peerage and lords and knights, etc, which technically isn't even real politics as it lies outside the realm of democracy anyway)