Prends ça, Sarko!

It looks like the Parti socialiste is tired of playing nice; Le Monde clamors to join the fray by directing readers to this anti-Sarkozy manifesto in this morning's titres du jour. The book's author, Eric Besson, accuses presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy of the being no less than an apologist for the ghettoization of ethnic and religious minorities, a heartless fiscal liberal, and a clone of Bush. I don't know if there currently exists a worse insult in France. (Besides sale chameau.)

Mud-slinging à la française! Looking forward to the response from the politician who bears a striking resemblance to one of my favorite Sesame Street characters.