STICKING TO HER KNITTING:

Socialist candidate in France unveils far-left platform: Royal unveils her campaign platform (Katrin Bennhold, February 11, 2007, International Herald Tribune)

Ségolène Royal, the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, on Sunday unveiled a long-awaited, 100-proposal platform, veering sharply to the left on economic policy while also stressing discipline and traditional values.

Ten weeks before elections, Royal is hoping to reverse a slide in popularity that has seen her lose ground to her main challenger, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.

In a two-hour speech to about 10,000 supporters north of Paris, she pledged to raise pensions, increase the minimum wage to €1,500, or about $2,000, a month and guaranteed a job or further training to every youth within six months of graduating. She also said randomly selected citizens' juries would watch over government policy and that juvenile delinquents could be placed in educational camps run by the military.

You may as well just cut to the chase and make up the juries from the juveniles.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 11, 2007 4:10 PM