What the French presidential election of 2007 can teach us

Today as I was looking for information on the primaries coming up on March 4th, I came across some footage of the recently elected French president making a rude remark to a fellow citizen because the person did not want to shake his hand. The president was elected by over 53% of what was a sizeable voter turnout. Now he's in the thirties and falling. What happened?
People voted for his rhetoric instead of looking at his record. Just like Obama got Will I Am and Stevi Wonder to back him, Sarkozy got this elvis-presley-like rock star named Johnny Haliday to back him. Particularly the younger voters tend to listen to the music and chant a few slogans and their minds go dead. And France has ended up with a president that railroads them on one issue after another.
"Just words" says Obama, borrowing the slogan from a fellow politician Patrick. What is it Patrick is governor of? Did you say "Massachusetts"? Didn't Hillary take that state? How is it that Obama didn't nail down that state? He had two HUGE endorsements from Kennedy and Kerry and a relationship with the governor so close that he doesn't have to even mention his name when he uses whole chunks of the governor's soeeches as if they were his own inspiration. I wonder if it might not have something to do with the aftermath of the gubernatorial elections.
Maybe it's time to worry about the words and I suggest -- as a start -- to look at that little film of Sarkozy and see what the French ended up with. Then, think about Hillary's early speeches before she came under the pressure of this rhetorical "surge", like an invasion of the calm, lucid deliberation that voting is supposed to be. Listen to the content, the well-thought-out plans she has in her platform. She has done the GROUNDWORK like Sarkozy's opponent did.
Last February -- a year ago -- some delinquents set fire to a bus in France. Sarkozy's adversary was interviewed and she mentioned that what was needed in certain areas was a "neighborhood police force" and she associated this with several other measures. Had the French voted for the record instead of the rhetoric, this force would have been set up last summer. Because they voted for "words just words", they had to wait until now for Sarkozy to finally begin implementing his opponent's platform ... because his own hasz proven inadequate.
Although he is PLUMMETING in the polls, that's little comfort to the people who voted him in and even less to those that resisted the rhetoric! Once they're in...
So the time is now. Keep your head on your shoulders. See through the rhetoric to the record.