With France facing presidential elections next year, the two leading candidates on the center-right to succeed (enfin!) crooked Jacques, are the Prime Minister de Villepin and Interior Minister Sarkozy.

About de Villepin, the less said the better, and Sarkozy will almost certainly end up disappointing, but when it comes to the cartoons, he gets it right. He preferred, he said:”an excess of caricature to an excess of censure”.

That’s right.