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Sep 30, 2015 Letters
Dear Editor,
My good friend Freddie Kissoon misidentified the current President of France as (sic – first name missing -Nicolas) Sarkozy (KN Sep 25). Sarkozy (under UMP political alliance) served as President between May 2007 and May 2012.
He was defeated in his re-election bid by the socialist Francois Hollande. This may seem like a petty point. But Kissoon thrives on pettiness. He pokes fun at writers for minor transgressions and Freudian slips.
Most recently, Freddie ridiculed former President Donald Ramotar for not knowing the difference between “intention” and “intuition”.
Freddie penned that Sarkozy apologize for his errors during his 100 days in office. There is no public record of such an apology. Sarkozy was not one to easily apologize for any transgression. He never felt he did anything wrong even when he offended others.
Freddie also penned (using incorrect grammar) that he honestly could not give the APNU-AFC government “an excellence grade” in rating its 100 days in office. It should have been “excellent” or “a grade of excellence”. How would Freddie feel if people were to ridicule him for his slips?
On a related note, the first 100 days in office is a symbolic period; it is when the honeymoon is over between the media and the government in office. They get rated by pollsters and the media.
Sarkozy did not get good rating at that mark. Hollande had better rating, but he also received declining approval for his performance and how the population viewed him. In Guyana, the 100 days mark has not been a momentous one for the new APNU-AFC administration that has been firing staff based on ethnic and political factors.
Vishnu Bisram
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