Liberté, égalité, Ou la la.*

The Isengard.gov endoresement for the President of France: Segolene Royal. She's a forward looking socialist who has energized the left after the last election debacle under Jospin, who was trounced last time by Le Pen, the National Front goon. In the run-off, she's already put that cat out (to coin a phrase,) and she has already vowed not to genuflect to G.W. Bush.

She's run a strong race against the conservative Sarkozy. Even better, now in her early fifties, she looks great in a bikini. You say this is a superficial qualification for a politician. I say it would have utterly excluded Dick Cheney.

This joke, based on not only the French national motto, but the original revolutionary slogan Liberté, égalité, fraternité, ou la mort! (Freedom, equality, brotherhood, or death!) and its conflation with a stereotypical french saying for oogling an attractive woman, has been quality assured.